Medical Science Liaison - Cardiometabolic at Boehringer Ingelheim

Description:

• To implement and execute short and long term medical goals and tactics, with an emphasis on pharmacotherapeutical aspects and with a understanding of business priorities
• Provide medical knowledge and scientific update within the therapy areas for external and internal stakeholders & scientific information management and dissemination
• Scientific collaboration with selected healthcare professional (External experts) within the therapy area with the objectives of educational programs
• Competitor intelligence sharing with internal groups
• Internal training and maintaining scientific expertise within the cross-functional team

Responsibilities:

• External Experts (EEs) Development
• Mapping and Identification of EEs in the country
• Planned activity mapping for the identified EEs in the country
• Speaker trainings
• Identification of advisors for advisory board purposes
• Assist in execution of local and regional advisory board
• Ensure all activities executed with EEs are within the approved strategic communication
• Facilitate publication activities
• Facilitation between CRA/CRO and EEs on clinical studies/registries
• Organization and execution of round-table discussions and peer-to-peer communications
• Speaker briefing and debriefings
• Establish scientific collaboration and develop strong relation with selected top EEs in the country
• Demonstrate leadership in execution of medically owned activities
• Internal collaboration and feedback/Tactical Planning
• Provide medical input on development of brand tactical plans and the medical tactical activities and strategies based on knowledge of the specific therapeutic area
• Ensure active communication with internal stakeholders cross-functional and within medicine around:
• Share feedback of EEs internally e.g opinions on the data, view on the general therapeutic area landscape, Reactions to promotional activities/pieces
• Competitor intelligenceMonitoring competitor information, activities, and publication
• New management trends observed
• Local epidemiological knowledge and new data on TA
• Provide recommendations on potential new investigators to clinical operations
• Scientific Information Management and dissemination
• Presentations on updates in therapeutic areas, guidelines and disease management
• Hospital/group/continuous medical education meetings and round table discussions
• Slide deck preparation and review
• Face-to-face discussion with EE
• Objection handling
• Handling medical queries
• Lead the scientific discussion in the cross-functional team with internal and external stakeholders in the format require eg. Letters, meetings, etc
• Literature search
• Visits with health authorities
• Payers scientific discussions
• Formulary scientific support discussions
• Support of Medical Information team in handling medical information to health care professionals
• Internal training
• Conduct required scientific training for Field Force & provide continuous updates through different forums
• Conduct induction training (as backup trainer for medical manager)
• Conduct Cycle meeting training (backup)
• Serve as an educational source for sales reps, and internal cross-functional stakeholder
• Review new relevant publications and new competitor articles and updates on new data on therapeutic area
• Support E-Platforms across Therapeutic Areas and innovative programs
• Scout and suggest innovative e-programs and platforms for departmental function and therapeutic area development
• Maintain Scientific Expertise
• Attending external national and international scientific meetings with EE
• Updated with new articles in the relevant therapy areas
• Screening of current awareness literature updates for the respective therapeutic areas of local data
• Compliance
• Knowledge and adherence to:
• BI Code of Conduct
• Anti-corruption and Anti-bribery Policy
• Local laws and regulations
• Policies, Procedures and systems related to Medical Affairs
• Identified CAPAs in Medicine
• Set budget for activities
• Learning one source (LOS)
• Maintains a code of professional conduct as a medical practitioner and reports instances of unethical practices exhibited by competitors

Requirements:

• 2 years minimum experience in similar position
• 1-2 years’ experience in Diabetes
• Medicine/Dentist/Pharmacy degree
• Able to travel 50% of the time
• Field base position (80%)
• Based in Nairobi, Kenya
• Fluency in English
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Advanced presentation and computer skills with expertise in literature identification and evaluation
• Highly motivated & capable to learn large amounts of scientific content which is then communicated in a clear, concise fashion through letters and presentations
• Intellectual curiosity about the field of science /medicine for which they are responsible
• Ability to work effectively and share information within a team environment
• Excellent self-management skills and ability to adapt services provided based on customer needs
• Good understanding of business and commercial environment