Total 3 regional recruitment lead job vacancies in Health / Beauty / Fitness category in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Clementi Campus

The Regional Medical Lead (RML) will be a cross-portfolio lead in the dedicated Region as per business needs. The RML will enable delivery of medical affairs plans based on understandings on multi-dimensional environments and global strategies and supports external engagements/ presentations, data gap analysis and oversight of evidence generation activities across Local Operating Companies (LOCs). They are also an internal ambassador for the region, interfacing with the central product leads.

• Accountable for supporting and implementing external engagement for the area in collaboration with Key Stakeholders, in partnership with the Global Medical Affairs Lead (GMAL), LOC Medical Leads, Medical Science Liaison (MSL) leads
• Partners with the Vaccines Marketing Lead (VML) and senior stakeholders in the region to optimize launches/ access to medicines in all LOCs in the assigned geography - by ensuring high quality medical input to regulatory and commercial strategies and enhancing local medical affairs tactical plans.
• Drives the implementation of brand global medical affairs strategies within the assigned geography. Brings cross-portfolio expertise and deep understanding of customer needs in the assigned geography.
• Liaises with technical experts in central R&D (e.g., GHO, Epi) and aligning with regional experts (e.g., SAPH, Epi, HE, GA) as required.
• Collaborates with Therapy Area Medical Leads in other geographies to share best practices, identify and resolve common issues, and strengthen customer insights for the portfolio.
• Builds high performing medical networks across the assigned LOCs in collaboration with the Regional VP, Cluster Medical Leads, and LOC Medical Directors.
• Ability to be flexible to meet the changing needs and priorities of the assigned Region.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Regional VP (of Vaccines – Medical and Clinical) in driving the development, implementation, and execution of Business Plans at the area level.
• Supports external engagement for the area in collaboration with Key Stakeholders, in partnership with the GMAL, LOC Medical Leads, MSL leads and SAPHs.
• Engages with government officials and reimbursement bodies in collaboration with Government Affairs to understand their needs regarding our products to contribute to public health planning and to respond to specific information requests.
• Works closely with commercial colleagues to optimize launches/ access to vaccines in all Intercontinental LOCs - by ensuring high quality medical input to regulatory and commercial strategies and enhancing local medical affairs tactical plans.
• Brings cross-portfolio expertise, maintains knowledge of GSK product data and literature relevant to the portfolio of vaccines and has a deep understanding of customer needs in region Intercontinental.
• Supports the Regional VP by reviewing LOC prioritized GSK-sponsored and Investigator Sponsored Study (ISS) proposals to assess their scientific merit and strategic need.
• Liaises with technical experts (e.g. Health Economics, Epidemiology) and other regional experts as required.
• Helps the development and delivery of internal training to GSK Regional/Area/LOC medical teams and for commercial teams as appropriate, under the supervision of the Intercontinental Head of Vaccines.
• Fully understand and meet the requirements of all GSK policies (including Standards for Scientific Engagement, External Interactions by Medical and R&D Staff, GSK Code of Practice for Promotion and Customer Interactions), SOPs and external regulations.

Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Medical degree with board certification.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in medical affairs and clinical development, including product launch experience within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in drug development, safety, regulatory affairs, market access, and reimbursement in GCI markets.
• This position requires a deep medical and scientific expertise to be viewed as credible by external experts and to provide sound medical judgement related to the therapeutic area.
• Demonstrated effective communication, influence, leadership and talent development.
• Proven ability to work in a matrix environment.
• Background in Vaccines/Infectious Disease is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity (including organizational) and cultural diversity.

The Medical Innovation and Digital Lead, APAC, serves as a key strategic partner, focusing externally to bring insights, inform business strategies, and communicate information in an engaging way. This role is pivotal in aligning capability responsibility to drive performance, standardization, risk minimization/mitigation, consistency where necessary, and reducing inefficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the pipeline/paediatrics lead for APAC Hub for all internal stakeholders.
• Champion innovative approaches in virtual settings with less fragmented touchpoints but higher impact and meanings to HCPs
• Lead the medical digital ambition and design the digital roadmap for APAC implementing digital solutions in line with ViiV medical digital strategy (Medical precision engagement, medical data to insights, MIKE)
• Ensure the individualization of medical touchpoints with HCPs, Patients, scientific organizations at LOC level leveraging peer to peer exchange where possible through omnichannel approach.
• Lead the insights collection process for APAC to ensure consistency through digital tools, dissemination of findings and identify actionable tactics across portfolio.
• Support local execution for example identification of right medical audience, understanding level tracking, prioritisation of engagements, narrative development.
• Develop LOCs capabilities to deliver a tailored engagement experience to identified EEs and developing the medical audience to digital opinion leaders.
• Provide a strategic vision providing network and process solutions that improve operational excellence and enhance the satisfaction of customers experience.
• Define and implement meaningful metrics to demonstrate customer value and stakeholder understanding of value, ongoing benchmarking and measurement, and development of high performance.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Min degree in pharmacy or science
• Min 5 years of medical affairs experience in pharmaceutical industry and Asia Pacific Market
• Experience in medical affairs activities related to HIV, infectious diseases and virology
• Significant experience within pharmaceutical industry
• Ability to think regionally and globally and represent an asset with impartiality, taking into account regional affiliation of stakeholders.
• Credibility to serve the regional business without perception of LOC bias.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to facilitate agreement between stakeholders in different LOCs.
• Working within a disciplined approach to Medical Affairs activities to ensure a focus on quality, compliance, scientific rigor, and operational excellence.
• Experience presenting to and influencing LOCs medical team as well as leadership team.
• Experience matrix working.
• Experience working with ambiguity.

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Maintain a high level of integrity while balancing multiple priorities and responsibilities.
• Attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills
• Great depth and breadth of knowledge about HIV, both directly related to our assets and also more broadly around clinical disease.
• Business acumen and strategic thinking
• Curious and agile in learning new digital tools that could be applied for driving performance and optimizing communication internally and externally.
• Demonstrate a serious commitment to accuracy and quality while meeting goals or deadlines.
• Sense of urgency, flexibility, and accountability
• Must be a committed team player prepared to work in and embrace a team-based culture.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Being part of the Regional Medical Affairs Team, this role will directly report to the Associate Regional Medical Director, based in Singapore. This role will be act as the Therapeutic Area Regional Medical Lead (MPH and MCH portfolio), be responsible for medical governance, RMA audits, SOP updates, medical compliance, digital initiatives and clinical operations matters.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Medical Affairs: Provide medical and scientific support for the therapeutic areas

• The regional therapeutic expert for the assigned therapy areas (TAs), working in collaboration with the regional marketing teams.
• Provide strategic medical input into core brand strategies and support medical marketing activities such as promotional material, business development assessments, product launches, omni channel engagement, brand planning etc.
• The regional medical point of contact for the TAs for the regional and local medical and marketing teams for providing directions and support on medical action items, including but not limited to KOL engagements, insight seeking, advisory boards, Medical led meetings and initiatives, patient centricity, medical omni-channel communications etc.
• Conduct regional scientific trainings on the disease and products
• Lead life cycle management and data generation activities for the regional/corporate brands
• Support building of strong regional advocates and expert panels and speakers for the brands.
• Maintain knowledge of relevant regulations and guidelines and disseminates same to clinical project teams
• Research and prepare training on therapeutic areas and indications of relevance and maintains an awareness of trends and changes of importance in management of those indications
• Initiates and maintains interactions with key opinion leaders and investigators in therapeutic areas of interest. Create and implement KOL mapping and engagement plan.
• Attend and act as advisor to relevant clinical development projects or Menarini Clinical meetings
• Conduct medical assessment for the respective brands for business development opportunities

Medical Governance, RMA audits, SOP updates, Medical compliance, digital initiatives

Clinical Operations :

• Leads all stages of the clinical trial development process including: feasibility assessments; protocol design; CRF design; investigational site selection; generation of clinical study reports and the development of study-related documents, including study protocols, informed consent documents, study manuals and plans, trial master files, case report form design, etc.
• Regional medical lead for CRO management
• Takes responsibility for and initiates the medical review of all clinical study documents and reports
• Achieves study objectives by working with team members to set project priorities and milestones and resolve project conflicts
• Proactively identifies and resolves issues, and participates in process improvement initiatives as required
• Reviews and approves invoices from study vendors, investigators, consultants, etc. and planning of the clinical study budgets.
• Oversee medical aspects of the risk management and risk mitigation strategies
• Ensures GCP, regulatory compliance, internal SOPs and Working Instructions is maintained throughout the clinical trial lifecycle

KEY REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors or post graduate medical qualifications
• Ideally qualified with Diploma in Pharmaceutical Medicine and/or Diploma in Human Pharmacology
• At least 3 or more years of medical affairs and clinical research/development experience within a pharmaceutical or biotechnology company
• Comprehensive knowledge of the clinical development process and its critical paths
• Good command of spoken and written English ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and good presentation skills
• Travel to markets within APAC would be required
• Commercial awareness
• Unquestionable integrity and positive attitude
• Great at building relationships, particularly with KOLs
• Willing and capable to manage multiple projects, tight timelines and responsibilities