Merck & Co Hiring for Regional Associate Director Medical Affairs – Endometrial/Ovarian Cancer job in North Wales Full Time

Job Description

Our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic solutions, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.-

The Regional Associate Director of Medical Affairs (RADMA) position is a core function within Global Medical and Scientific Affairs organization and supports the achievement of our scientific and medical strategies.- Specifically, the RADMA will partner with the US Regional Director of Medical Affairs (RDMA) to deliver our key scientific/medical strategies (materials, training, concepts) for use with customers (external scientific leaders and key decision makers).-

The RADMA will work across functional areas within our Company to drive the management of new and existing efforts aligned to the medical affairs strategies. The role involves the development and execution of project plans, the identification and creation of needed resources in alignment with and applicable policies and guidance documents.-

Primary Activities:

– Project Management:

The RADMA must possess project management expertise, operational capabilities, persuasive skills, and the ability to lead without direct authority over a continuum of stakeholders at varying band levels to ensure that the practice of meaningful and collaborative scientific exchange at the direction of the RDMA results in trust and value for the company from the perspective of our SL’s and KDMs.-

– Strategy Realization:

Through partnership with the US-RDMA help drive the creation of the Country Medical Affairs plans, ensuring input from group input meetings, congresses, external interactions, and internal cross-functional stakeholders.-Independently identifies and continually improves processes to meet strategic goals of the GMSA program. Support the development of executive level presentations that provide project status updates, and reflect progress against GMSA objectives.

– Material & Training Creation:

Collaborate on the creation, review and approval of resource materials as a strategic operational partner.- Provide support in ensuring appropriate training and up to date information is available to the field medical teams to support their ongoing external interactions.- Provide training and education to strategy/updates.–

Additional Responsibilities: –

• Drive creation, review, and approval of materials as the strategic operational partner of the US and Global Medical Affairs team.
• Work with RDMA and colleagues within our Company to develop comprehensive project plans for US field medical initiatives, including timelines, resources, and critical path assessment, milestones, and project deliverables.-
• Ensures creation and development of SL/KDM customer education tools required to support strategy.–
• Provide support in ensuring appropriate training and up to date information is available to appropriate stakeholders to support their ongoing external interactions.–
• Engage directly and independently in high level communications in writing, virtually or face to face with internal stakeholders.-
• Independently identifies and continually improves processes to meet strategic goals of GMSA.-
• Adheres to the- compliance and regulatory procedures, working closely with Global Compliance and Legal.-
• Actively engages with Legal, Compliance, Brand Teams and other functional leaders to recommend solutions and/or process improvement to enhance our reputation with external scientific leaders.

Education Minimum Requirement: –

• Required:- Doctorate (M.D., PhD, PharmD)
• Preferred:- Healthcare Field

Required Experience and Skills:

• Minimum of 3 years of oncology experience at a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company working in headquarters medical affairs leading cross functional matrix teams
• Compelling teamwork, collaborative and influencing skills-
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation ability-
• Strong personal integrity-
• Must be able to organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a constantly changing environment
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Healthcare or Scientific background-
• Experience working in the pharmaceutical industry, Medical Affairs, and/or Medical Information strongly preferred

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). -Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
25%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid

Shift:
1st – Day

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
n/a

Requisition ID:R248379