Medical Affairs Associate Director

The Associate Director provides medical leadership for specific projects within a therapeutic area (TA) and aligned to specific medicines. S/he is the lead and subject matter expert for Vertex medicines.

The AMD acts with an uncompromising commitment to patients and ensures the flawless execution of TA country medical plans, and is committed to:
* Provide fair and balanced medical information and education to health care professionals andpayers that support the safe and effective use of Vertex’ medicines in appropriate patients
* Build trust through open and transparent collaboration with health care professionals, patient associations and payers
* Develop collaborative networks inside and outside Vertex to access best ideas, expertise and capabilities
* Develop and strengthen country medical affairs’ credibility within and outside of the organisation
* Demonstrate consistent ethical and professional behaviour, with uncompromising commitment to patients
* Know the local health care system and keep up-dated on changes in environment in the country, including rules and regulations
* Build reputation and visibility of Vertex at the country level by the provision of high quality medical information and education both internally and externally
* Actively participate to the European TA Medical Affairs Team(s) and European Medical Affairs Team, bringing back best practice from country projects and proposing processes improvement for MA activities in the affiliate and, where appropriate, across EU MA team
* Provide support in the assigned TA(s) to the country team:
* Foster best practice exchange and cross-fertilisation among the country medical staff
* Pro-actively collaborate in cross-functional teams at country level
* Contribute to the local Brand Team, representing the TA (scientific and medical expertise) and ensuring all activities address patient well-being and respect data integrity
* Create, or co-create, and fully execute specific aspects of the Country Medical plan(s) agreed with the Therapeutic Area (TA) leads and CMD
* Foster patient access to Vertex drugs, by supporting the commercial organization in the preparation/review of reimbursement dossiers and presenting scientific data as required to key stake holders in the access process
* Provide local feed-back to TA Leads for Global Development Programmes, to ensure local needs are taken into account
* Support as needed the execution of clinical development trials in the country.
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* General responsibilities:

*** Demonstrate consistent ethical and professional behaviour, with uncompromising commitment to patients
* Build reputation and visibility of Vertex at the country level by providing fair and balanced medical information, communication and education to various stakeholders who support the safe and effective use of Vertex’ drugs in the appropriate patients.#
** Brand and Access support:
*** Work in partnership with the Commercial and marketing leads as well as other cross functional team colleagues to ensure access to company’s products and develop and implement brand plans aligned with patient, HCPs’ and broader corporate needs.
* Ensure highest level of support and contribution to access efforts through the preparation/review of reimbursement dossiers, scientific engagement of key stakeholders and presentation of scientific data as required to key stakeholders in the access process
* Reviewing and certification of promotional and non-promotional materials in the respective area according to the company SOP and to local country and regional regulations
* Responsible for medical interpretation of data (clinical trials, registries, published literature, etc.) for in-development and marketed compounds;
** External partnerships:
*** Ensure excellent working partnerships are developed with (Health Care Professionals (HCPs), based on scientific excellence and trust
* Partner with HCPs to provide insights on current focused therapeutic area issues and questions
* Responsible for building and maintaining transparent and successful partnerships with national scientific societies, patient organisations, HTA bodies and relevant payers.
** Scientific Excellence:
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