Job title: Regional Medical Advisor
Direction: Medical Affairs
Location: India - Guwahati
Report to: Head- Regional Medical Advisor
Functional Reporting to:
(when applicable)
N/A
Manager position: No
Supervise: N/A
Customers: Internal- Medical/ Sales/ Marketing/ CSU
External- Health Care Professionals
Job description valid
from:
01/06/2019
Mission statements
? The RMA (Regional Medical advisor) is a credible and valued representative of the company in
field to interact with key stakeholders across their regions/products/TAs to establish and
maintain scientific relationships with opinion leaders and other healthcare professionals via
scientific approach that is aligned with the Brand Team objectives and therapeutic area Medical
Plan.
? The RMA is responsible for providing a variety of external and internal customers with medical
and scientific information on the appropriate utilization of specific company products and with
more general information about their therapeutic area and disease state.
? The RMA attends conferences and meetings on behalf of the company as scientific expert and
serve as support to the field based sales team within a defined region.
Duties & Responsibilities
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
? Identify, establish and maintain collaborative relationships with KOLs, investigators and
institutions strategic to expand research, advisory, and educational partnership opportunities
and the effective use of company products.
? Provide stakeholders with credible, fair balanced, scientific information in assigned disease
areas.
? Obtain feedback and advice about company products or pipeline through various interactions
and communicate relevant information back to internal stakeholders.
? Collect, analyze, and communicate fair-balanced information concerning therapeutic area,
treatment options, emerging standards of care, and competitive intelligence, reviews scientific
publications and address medical information inquires
? Provide effective clinical presentations to internal and external audiences and tailors
presentations to meet specific audience needs
? Conduct local scientific educational programs that aim to satisfy the specific scientific needs of
individual KOLs and Institutions
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? Provide clinical input to the regulatory affairs department in the preparation of regulatory
submissions and product registrations.
? Provide clinical support to manufacturing and quality for sustaining commercial products; e.g.
resolution of quality concerns, evaluation of customer complaints
? Assist in protocol development, site selection, recruitment strategies, clinical operations
collaboration, and communication with the Brand team and the Medical Advisor
? To act in accordance with the local Country legislation
? Dispose of all rights to the service works created during the execution of the employment
contract, including, but not limited to, the rights to computer software (including software and
object codes and other elements, without which the work and / or modification of these
programs is difficult or possible), other aspects of copyright.
? Regularly review corporate e-mail to ensure the timely response within the powers granted in
accordance with this instruction, requests, tasks and orders coming from both the Company's
employees and third-party organizations.
? Timely and accurately performs oral and written housekeeping tasks and assignments of their
leader and the Company's management. Correspondence by electronic means (fax, e-mail,
etc.) is equivalent to writing correspondence. Service tasks and assignments, thus obtained,
are binding.
? Respond to requests from employees of the Company in the manner and within the
competence of its officers.
? Do not make on behalf of the Company any public statements, representations, including
written, does not provide statements, except separately agreed in writing with the head of the
Department of Communications, or cases.
? It is mandatory to regularly attend events held on behalf of the Company's management, as well
as training and briefings related to the employee.
? Passes the annual and semi-annual evaluation of the fills and sends to the Department of
Human Resources required documents in the prescribed form and the Company no later than
the dates indicated in official emails from the Department of Human Resources of the
Company.
? Confirms in writing his/her introduction to the newly created and the current laws of the
Company, wearing an obligatory nature, in the terms established by the Company's
management, for proper and efficient performance of duties on behalf of the Company on
official travel.
? Knows and complies with the requirements of the current legislation, in particular the
requirements of legislative acts listed in the documents regulating the activities of this job
description.
? Comply with the applicable local regulations Companies, orders, regulations, instructions,
policies, procedures, rules and other documents bearing the obligatory character, regardless of
their shape, which is familiar for his signature or by reading the corporate e-mail.
Knowledge, Skills & Competencies / Language
1. Clear understanding of local medical practice and clinical decision making in regards to patient
care.
2. Understanding of healthcare systems affecting patient care.
3. Thorough knowledge of medicine (including pharmacotherapy), treatment guidelines, clinical
research processes, customer strategies, regulations, and ethical guidelines applied to the
pharmaceutical industry, solid understanding of GCP an industry code of practice.
4. Interpretation of key scientific data and ability to translate this information to meet educational
and research needs.
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5. In-depth knowledge of target TA may be an advantage.
6. MS Office and associated hardware working knowledge.
7. Excellent command and communication skills in English.
Qualifications
1. MBBS / MD, Graduate with experience or Post-graduate degree in Medicine (Pharmacology,
Medicine etc.).
2. Knowledge of relevant therapeutic and clinical experience may be preferable but not mandatory
3. Prior experience in the clinical or medical affairs departments in the biotech/ pharmaceutical
industry is preferable but not mandatory.
4. RMA experience may be an advantage.
Requirements of the job
? Take accountability, customer focused, science oriented, highly adapted to changing
environment.
? Compliant, high quality result.
? Presenting scientific material clearly and concisely.
? Negotiation skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
? Ability and willingness to acquire knowledge in new areas, innovation and creativity.
? Strong multi-tasking, time- and self-management skills, ability to plan and work
independently,
? Perspective – broad-ranging personal and business interests, project management, ready to
travel (up to 50 - 70% of the time)
Organisation chart
Medical Director (DCV)
Head/ Lead Regional Medical Advisor
Regional Medical Advisor
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