Head of Medical - DACH Cluster

Head of Medical - DACH Cluster

Kyowa Kirin International

Düsseldorf, Germany

Job Purpose

Cluster-based role managing the DACH Medical Team responsible for Germany and Switzerland.

Ensure optimal medical and scientific support across the Cluster. A strategic and operational role, a member of the local management team, co-responsible for the commercial success of cluster operations, whilst ensuring such success is reached by providing optimal patient care without ever crossing any medical/ ethical/ compliance line for commercial gain.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Hiring, coaching and retention of the DACH Medical Team as appropriate;
• Creation and/or review of medical materials, e.g., literature reviews, medical letters, slide kits etc.;
• Organisation and management of advisory boards;
• Building and maintaining a professional network;
• Provision of scientific support to speakers upon demand;
• Medical/Scientific training to local organisation or business partners;
• Medical/Scientific input in marketing plan and materials;
• Review of and input into Regulatory Affairs documents, such as label/SmPC updates, DHCP letters, letters to competent authorities;
• Execution of Risk Management Plan;
• Pharmacovigilance: Accountable for capturing, documenting and processing of Adverse Events on company products;
• Liaise with local patient organisations to find out about patients’ needs and required patient support;
• Work in matrix with Franchise medical team and network with other medical clusters;
• Obtain and maintain in-depth knowledge of guidelines, codes of practice, relevant local law, internal policies and SOPs related to clinical research, promotional materials and activities, as well as informative/educational programs and materials in Cross-Functional alignment with Legal and Compliance colleagues;
• Run local assessment of clinical practice related to our therapeutic areas (including identification of Centres of Excellence).

Qualifications

Position Requirements:

• Appropriate experience as a successful affiliate/cluster Medical Affairs Director;
• Significant DACH experience in a Medical Affairs Director Role, and an understanding of Medical Affairs processes across the Region would be an advantage;
• Full scientific and medical knowledge of KKI’s products and their therapeutic area;
• University degree in human medicine;
• Significant relevant work experience in clinical research & development in the pharmaceutical industry or related fields;
• Experience with orphan drugs, early market access and launches of specialised drugs;
• Significant experience of building/leading Medical Science Liaison (MSL) teams;
• Strong people management experience;
• Fluent in English (written & spoken).

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