Medical Affairs Manager

Job overview
The job of the Medical Manager involves cultivating and maintaining relationships with academic
researchers and leaders, attending conferences and talks, presenting information on new therapeutic
products to physicians and other healthcare professionals.
The medical manager is also responsible to conceive, develop and execute local medical affairs
projects in his territory, and to implement international plans in alignment with the European and
global medical affairs team.

Responsibilities and duties
Applies in-depth knowledge of product and disease management and communicates information in
an articulate and professional manner to achieve business objectives

• Establishes strong working relationships with key customers/opinion leaders, acts as a conduit of
information between the investigator and Orphalan and demonstrates accountability with a focus
on customer service

• Has the ability to influence all customers by presenting information consistent with Medical and
Marketing positioning

• Ensures timely and informative scientific exchanges with external customers and internal partners,
which accurately reflect scientific data, in accordance with compliance policies and procedures

• Understands and achieves the strategic goals of Orphalan Medical and Marketing through the
successful implementation, management, and completion of Investigator Sponsored Trials

• Responsible for the learning and development of the sales force with respect to product, competitors
and disease state knowledge. Acts as a resource for the representatives and conducts
meetings to educate specialist medical professionals/ others on the specific therapeutic area and raise
awareness

• Establishes strong relationships with internal customers and works well within teams and with a
wide variety of people

• Ensures that Orphalan Pharmacovigilance SOPs are understood and followed. Drives the external
communication efforts when significant safety issues arise, with the wellbeing of patients being
the ultimate goal

• Collects investigators' proposals for local and regional clinical activities, ensure that these proposals
are discussed within the Brand Team, manage internal and external approval processes,
and provide timely feedback to investigators

• Active participation providing input to Medical Manager in country/region on trial and survey
feasibility and site suitability, based on knowledge of the field

Qualification

• Degree in Life Sciences

• Experience working in cross-functional teams. 2-3 years experience of working in the pharmaceutical industry and/or in clinical research ideally in rare diseases

• Background in Learning and Development and experience in sales force training, with the ability to translate complex technical information into key messages

• Demonstrated success in organising meetings and making presentations to large audiences

• Ability to quickly and comprehensively learn the science and adapt it to drive the business

• Promotes a culture of innovation, constructive challenge, team spirit and accountability within the team that is based on ensuring the wellbeing of patients

• Disease Area depth knowledge including key scientific publications

• Knowledge of clinical trial design and process

• Solid understanding of the Healthcare System

• English language skills, spoken and written – Word, PowerPoint and Excel skills qualifications in relevant discipline

• Need to have strong external customer focus with excellent networking capabilities and ability to integrate in a multifaceted team.

• Excellent interpersonal, communication, presentation and listening skills

• Demonstrated ability to organise, prioritise and work effectively with minimal supervision in a constantly changing environment

• Excellent teaching skills and ability to present and discuss scientific material clearly and succinctly as well as to write reports, papers and research protocols. Scientific inquisitiveness is a substantial asset

• Willingness to travel at least 60% of the time