Medical Affairs Professional

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**Job summary**

The MAP is a therapeutically aligned Clinical Scientist who plays a key role within the Medical Affairs organization.

The primary focus of this role is to use the individual’s knowledge of specific disease states, available treatments and investigational compounds to help deliver strategic/tactical thinking and life cycle planning.

The MAP plays an important leading role in the cross-functional partnership with the Brand team to meet both external customer and internal business needs. They lead to ensure all medical activities are in compliance with local, international regulations and laws and Good Clinical Practices, company standards, Lilly policies and procedures, global quality standards, the principles of Medical Research standards are aligned with the wider affiliate and Medical functional vision.

**Main Accountability/responsibility**:
**Scientific expertise and Medical Affairs Delivery**:

- Develop and/or contribute to the affiliate/therapeutic area medical plan and strategies along with CRP
- Lead / support data analysis and the development of slides and publications (abstracts, posters, manuscripts)
- Partner with other existing Medical Affairs roles (CRP, CRS, MSL etc) to achieve a seamless medical team aimed at delivering exceptional customer experiences through medical education initiatives, using where possible various omnichannel engagement tools.
- Contribute in collection of the insight generation in respective disease area pertaining to patient journey, treatment patterns, unmet needs etc along with the field medical teams (MSLs)
- Support CRP in preparing and executing data generation plans in line with the affiliate’s business requirements
- Medical information letter creation (local) and review (regional/global) in collaboration with Med Info function
- Support Scientific Data Disclosure (SDD plans)
- Serve / Support as the affiliate medical/scientific leaders including research and regulatory deliverables, where required in collaboration with the CRP
- Critically read and evaluate relevant medical literature to be current in the Therapeutic Area.
- Keep up to date with Medical and other Scientific developments relevant to the product/portfolio
- Be aware and identify current trends, issues and projections for clinical practice and access

**Cross functional Team collaboration**:
Serve as the key medical point of contact for the cross functional teams including the brand team:

- Contribute clinical, scientific and strategic input to support the cross functional team
- Serve as a key resource for Medical Launch support
- Contribute to the development of medical strategies for brand plans
- Offering scientific and creative input, contribute to the development (local materials) and/or review global/regional materials of promotional materials for the brand team.
- Effectively communicate and transfer knowledge of the therapeutic available solutions environment, the clinical landscape and relevant medical and scientific knowledge.
- Oversee the medical component of the local Patient Support Programs
- Serve as a key resource to support the medical training needs of internal Business Partners such as Sales and Marketing.
- Oversee the collation and analysis of customer information to drive understanding and insights and pro-actively anticipate issues/challenges and raise them to relevant stakeholders
- Lead / support the planning and implementation of symposia, advisory boards, scientific exchange and educational meetings/events with HCPs
- Provide recommendations for TLs and other external parties to serve as consultants, faculty
- Effectively lead collaborate with alliance partners.

**Customer Engagement & Experience**
- Respond to external customer questions and needs, including escalations by Med Info & Sales in accordance with the company-wide requirements for responding to unsolicited requests for information
- Drive the local coordination of activities and engagement of Thought Leaders - Speaker trainings
- Develop and maintain collaborations and relationships with relevant professional societies
- Deliver scientific, educational and occasionally meetings organized by commercial teams (whether virtual or face to face)
- Collaborate cross-functionally to drive improvements in customer engagements through digital innovations
- Take a leadership role in medical to deliver positive customer experiences

**Collaboration