JOB PURPOSE:

• Ensure the release of high-quality, educational, and informational materials that present our products in fair, balanced, and ethical manner.
• Provide professional medical services and updated local regulations to internal/external customers.
• Provide medical information service for company products to internal or external customers.
• To be scientific background to sales and marketing by medical training.
• Support for pharmacovigilance data management & problem pharmacovigilance training and update local regulation.

 KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Medical Affairs: (Therapeutic area medical associate)

• Handle medical affairs activities including pharmacovigilance.
• Develop strategic medical plan.
• Provide medical/scientific support for clinical development, KOL management, Market Access aspects and commercial activities
• Provide scientific communication to all key stakeholders in the country / MCO
• Handle medical queries
• Conduct and handle clinical trials for the responsible products.
• Ensure the scientific integrity of sponsored and supported research, information, and relationships with healthcare providers and patient advocacy groups within the geographic area
• Develop core strategies together with marketing department
• Supports the business by understanding the competitive market dynamics and proposing appropriate strategic actions to meet company objectives
• Work transversally with the Strategic Units on all activities in order to meet company objectives
• Provide medical support including medical advice and product training to Sales & Marketing team

Medical information service

• Understands the basic principles of information storage and retrieval, and searches a range of suitable information resources.
• Receive enquiries or written request from the professions, customers or internal stakeholders, assessing their needs, determining the most appropriate source of answer and deliver it to customers in a timely and concise way.
• With assistance can apply information effectively for each circumstance.

Promotional material preview and archiving

• Preview promotional material to ensure compliance of global and local standard operating procedure.
• Check the consistency between final materials and approval version
• Maintain filing and update database

Provision of training to company staff on SOP and local regulation

• Provide training on local SOPs and relevant local regulations

Records management

• Knowledge-base maintenance for published and unpublished literature databases, common questions and answers, standard letters and information sheets on the company’s products.
• Basic understanding of the department’s records management policy, and is aware of the action for the records associated with each business process with reference to the retention schedule. 

Medical excellence

•  Act as medical center of excellence to help medical directors on matters including:Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor.
  • Draft local SOPs and design the training and execution
  • Oversee the implementation and monitor the progress of all policy and guideline execution
  • Ensure by tracking medical events being dealt with and handled in the most professional and appropriate manner and are in strict adherence to company’s policies and guidelines.
  • Proactive compliance & quality management
  • Continuous performance improvement across all our processes, systems & activities
• Sanofi employee must understand of own roles and responsibilities in avoiding health risk (Health), preventing accidents (Safety) and environment protection (Environment). Involved in any such activities must comply with HSE policy.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor degree or above, majored in pharmacy (preferred) or science/para-medical
• At least 5  years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry
• Familiar with local and global requirement & regulation on pharmacovigilance & promotional practice is highly preferred
• Previous experience on handling pharmacovigilance, medical information and/ or promotional material approval is highly preferred
• Adequate medical and pharmaceutical knowledge
• Good command of written and spoken English & Chinese
• Good presentation skills
• Writing and summarizing skills
• Communication skills
• Familiar with computer skills (MS-Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MS-Publisher)