Medical Affairs Manager Oncology

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Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Affairs

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Warsaw, Masovian, Poland

Job Description:

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

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Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Medical Affairs Manager (MAM) Oncology for our affiliate in Poland, Warsaw.

Overall purpose of job:

The Medical Affairs Manager contributes to the development and implementation of company objectives and strategies in designated products with alignment of CVT (Country Value Team). Through activities in line with the CVT strategy MAM is jointly responsible for the realization of short-term and long-term company goals defined in Brand Plan Process. This role is crucial in providing medical and scientific leadership internally and externally, responsible for discussing our products, treatment trends and studies in the therapeutic areas in which we are involved on the level to be considered as trusted scientific counterparts.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

Key responsibilities

• Provide medical strategy & tactics in the respective product/products.
• Be directly involved in development of strategy and tactics for specific product/products by defining them in Medical Plan as a part of Brand Plan.
• Manage the implementation of medical affairs activities, including proactive identification of critical paths and tracking of budget for product dedicated medical projects.
• Foster an externally focused working environment. Develops & implements appropriate educational activities towards Health Care Professionals in collaboration with other internal and external partners where necessary.
• Maintain collaborative working relationship between internal stakeholders to deliver high quality expertise timely. Keep collaboration and alignment of action with other CVT members.
• Functioning as business partner for many different teams such as: Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Clinical Trials, Patients' Engagement and Advocacy, Pharmacovigilance, etc., in the field of scientific information and medical education.
• Actively engage in cross functional collaboration beyond the country.
• Ensure that all medical activities are conducted according to all applicable guidelines, regulations, company procedures and high ethical/quality standards.
• Cooperation/building partnership with Scientific Societies, Patient's Organizations and external health-care related audiences.
• Provision and implementation of appropriate educational activities towards Health Care Professionals in collaboration with other internal and external partners where necessary.

Other features of the job:

• Accurate, timely, compliant work and task follow up
• Ethical behaviour in line with J&J's Credo values is required
• Maintain in the highest standards of ethics, quality, compliance and accountability: compulsory training must be completed on time, she/he should act in accordance with the Quality & Compliance Core Objective, and help others do the same when there is an opportunity.

Requirements (knowledge, education, skills):

Educational Background and Pharmaceutical Industry expertise/experience:

• Medical Doctor, Pharmaceutical or Nature Science university degree
  Experience in Pharmaceutical Industry at Medical Affairs Manager position- 3 years
• Medical Affairs experience in the Oncology area would be an advantage and is preferred

Other Skills:

• Strong analytical skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Native local speaker and fluent English knowledge of both spoken and written,
• Project management skills
• Excellent presentation and influencing skills
• Seeks innovation
• Skill & passion to analyse/interpret scientific data & publications
• Excellent communication skills (oral, business writing, presenting and listening)
• High level of ethical standards in business
• Strong customer focus and service orientation
• Pro-active and goal-oriented thinking

Location and mobility: 80% local office based/ 20% travels

As we approach the festive season, kindly note that our recruitment timelines may be longer than usual. Thank you for your consideration

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Communication, Compliance Management, Digital Culture, Healthcare Trends, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Compliance, Strategic Thinking, Training People