Therapeutic Area Medical Affairs Lead

Job Description The Position The Therapeutic Area Medical Affairs Lead is responsible for leading and developing a high-performing Medical Affairs team, including Medical Advisors and Medical Science Liaisons, to deliver exceptional results within a defined therapeutic area. This role partners closely with the Cluster Medical Director to support the development and execution of medical strategy, product positioning and differentiation, lifecycle management, new product launches, and product crisis management.

The role also drives cross-functional collaboration within the therapeutic area, fosters scientific exchange and strategic relationships with healthcare professionals (HCPs), scientific leaders (SLs), key decision-makers (KDMs), and professional societies, while ensuring effective budget management and talent development

• Hires, manages, coaches, develops and retention qualified medical people, and build up an effective team (MA and MSL) in defined therapeutic area.
• Ensures the cluster medical affairs plan is aligned with brand strategy and accordance with unbiased scientific platform.
• Responsible for the whole team performance and creating team vision and high-performance culture Responsible for the quality of country medical strategy in defined therapeutic area, both national and regional.
• Responsible for the whole team budget management and effective utilization of resources.
• Responsible for the quality of scientific exchange of medical team with external customers
• Responsible for the medical execution of actionable medical insights.
• Ensures high standard medical compliance and governance
• Responsible for ensuring high medical quality of medical material and promotional materials review in defined therapeutic area; responsible for ensuring the medical review and approve process conducted by MA/MSLs are under the regulation of local laws and company policies.
• Ensures medical events organized by MA and MSL adhere to company compliance policy with non-promotional nature.
• Plans and implements talent development activities include but not limited to talent evaluation, talent development plan, talent recommendation, succession plan, etc.
• Responsible for leading the medical team to identify medical opportunities and medical solutions in current trends of diagnosis, existing/emerging treatment options, and unmet medical needs to contribute to new product launch, product positioning and differentiation, mature product’s life cycle management, product crisis management, reimbursement, listing, bidding and market access, etc.
• Leads the medical team by proactively providing medical support on guidance/consensus generation or updating in defined therapeutic area based on request or needs from external customers.
• Defines TA specific HCPs/SLs/KDMs scientific exchange objectives and establishes evaluable measurements on annual performance for his/her MA Heads/MAs/MSL managers and conducts year-end review of direct-reports’ performance.
• Leads the medical team to collaborate with external customers and cross-functions to engage local data generation and other studies in defined therapeutic area.
• Provides input on optimizing medical department’s process and actively engaging in medical excellence projects.
• Continuously explores for the innovative way to maximize medical value to company and patients in defined therapeutic area.

• MD and/or PhD in Medicine or a related scientific discipline.
• Proven Medical Affairs experience within multinational pharmaceutical organizations.
• Deep understanding of relevant disease areas and clinical practice.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including coaching, team development, and performance management.
• Strong customer-facing…