Postdoctoral Fellow - Medical Affairs and Scientific Communication; PharmD

The Medical Affairs and Scientific Communications Fellow is a post-doctoral pharmacist position within Clinical Development and Medical Affairs (CDMA). This rotation-based position provides broad exposure to BI US Medical functions. This position will require the Fellow to develop competencies necessary to contribute to comprehensive medical activities within CDMA. The Fellow will be based at Boehringer Ingelheim´s U.S. headquarters in Ridgefield, CT, working on a particular or multiple therapeutic areas (TAs) in the areas of cardio-renal-metabolism, Mental Health, oncology, and respiratory.

Through a series of rotations either within or outside of the assigned area, the Fellow will also gain an understanding of the broad range of opportunities available to a pharmacist in the pharmaceutical industry.

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies´ success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, mobility, networking and work-life balance.

Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim´s high regard for our employees.

Medical Affairs:

• Actively participate in therapeutic area development, execution, and strategic alignment of U.S. Medical and brand tactics
• Gain experience in planning and executing advisory board meetings and engaging Key External Experts (KEEs)
• Develop educational materials, train internal medical team members, and disseminate data from scientific manuscripts, congresses, etc.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal and external colleagues to plan and implement educational programs at national conferences
• Participate in the medical review of promotional and non-promotional materials as part of a multidisciplinary team (Human Pharma Review Committee)
• Gaining an understanding of corporate structure, regulatory considerations, and the drug development process.

Scientific Communications:

• Review and provide medical and scientific expertise to ensure the accuracy, clarity, and compliance of promotional and non-promotional materials, including marketing materials, educational content, sales aids, and training materials.
• Provide complete, accurate, balanced and referenced responses to medical information inquiries from healthcare professionals and patients
• Maintain a comprehensive product response database as well as contribute to the development of managed care formulary dossiers
• Conduct tailored product training that meets the needs of diverse audiences (e.g. Contact Center personnel, field-based representatives)
• Develop cross-functional project management skills by partnering with internal and external stakeholders to support the U.S. Medical Information and Medical Review teams.
• Inform to the publications strategy for the development of major journal manuscripts, congress posters and presentations
• Enhancing leadership and management skills by precepting Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience students.
• Implementing innovative process improvements and quality control solutions regarding database support and overall dissemination of scientific information.
• Leading and executing a longitudinal research project to improve Medical Affairs or Scientific Communications processes and presenting the outcomes at a national medical…