Principal Scientist, Medical Consult and Review Physician

About the position The Medical Consult and Review Physician (MCRP) position resides in the Value & Implementation (V&I) organization, which includes Global Medical and Scientific Affairs as well as Outcomes Research. This position provides clinical expertise and advice to internal stakeholders and is a member of several cross-functional teams, including the Promotional Review Team (PRT), Digital Engagement Team (DET), Lead/Last, and V&I medical Team. Key responsibilities include ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials, external communications, and field-based employee training; participating in strategic planning, global scientific-content development, and the review/approval of standard response documents (SRDs) on product safety and efficacy; interacting with health-care providers (HCPs) to help answer unsolicited professional medical information requests (MIRs); providing medical and scientific training to internal stakeholders; collaborating to develop training content and implement scientific updates; and providing consultation for Compendia and Pathways submissions. Additionally, this position serves as a subject-matter expert (SME) and serves as a consultant to various parts of the company (e.g., commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, business development) regarding supply-related decisions such as deletions, divestitures, and supply constraints. This position also helps lead US Patient Advocate Expert Input Meetings when required and submits on-label information to U.S. guidelines committees when needed.

Responsibilities

• Medical Review of Promotional Materials
• Provides clinical expert guidance and advice to Commercial Brand teams to influence promotional strategy and messaging based on scientific evidence and clinical context.
• Serves as a member of the Promotion Review Team (PRT), responsible for ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials, external communications, and Field-Based Employee (FBE) training content.
• Supports Country Medical Directors as headquarters (HQ) point of contact and SME for medical review.
• Serves as a product SME during V&I global assurance process for country assessment.
• Digital Engagement Teams
• Provides clinical-expert guidance and advice in the creation of digital promotional assets based on scientific evidence and clinical context.
• Serves as a member of the extended team, responsible for ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials and external-communications content
• Medical Information
• Provides actionable insights for strategic planning and global scientific-content development of medical-information assets, ensuring adequate integration of scientific evidence with patient safety and clinical relevance elements in a customer-centric approach.
• Reviews all medical information resources and standard response documents containing product safety, tolerability, and efficacy data.
• Interacts with HCPs who request a live discussion with physicians to answer unsolicited MIRs.
• Reviews health-outcomes-related standard-response documents and drug dossiers to ensure clinical relevance and medical accuracy of the content.
• Is a proactive participant and consultant for Compendia and Pathways submissions. Owner of Clinical Practice Guideline submissions.
• Strategic Coordination and Alignment
• Proactively works with the Global Scientific & Value Content (GSVC) team and participates in the product strategic planning, ensuring a tailored approach in creating and disseminating scientific content aligned with key scientific priorities and the GSVC plan.
• Serves as medical representative on the Deletion and Divestiture Committee (DDC). Provides medical-significance assessments to inform product deletions, divestitures, stock-outs, and shortages.
• Proactively engages in peer-to-peer conversations with key colleagues in our company Research & Development (R&D) division to provide/request input and ensure alignment to enhance the provision of accurate and customized medical information assets for customers and stakeholders.
• Works as an active participant on select teams to provide insights on labeling language, anticipate activities related to labeling updates, and facilitate timely and efficient scientific-response letter development and/or updates to support addressing Medical information requests (MIRs).
• Actively contacts and interacts with the Risk Management Safety Team when required.
• Acts as a SME for creation/update of select V&I process/standard operating procedures (SOPs).
• Medical Education and Training
• Supports creation of medical training curricula for the products to address basic and advanced training needs of V&I personnel.
• Collaborates with Learning & Development to develop training content and approve training resources for field personnel.
• Collaborates with Global Scientific & Value training team (GSVT) to develop training content review training resources for Field medical personnel.
• Implements speaker training activities in collaboration with Global Expert Management Services Consulting & Medical Education.
• Participates in training and/or mentoring of new team members.

Requirements

• MD.
• Post-graduate clinical training (residency).
• Understanding of regulations and compliance considerations impacting the pharmaceutical industry.
• Ability to work in a complex organizational environment and effectively operate in a team-oriented structure.
• Ability to analyze/synthesize data, provide solutions, and formulate strategies.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Clinical Development
• Clinical Experience
• Clinical Research
• Clinical Training
• Collaborating
• Communication
• Decision Making
• External Communication
• Pharmaceutical Industry
• Product Safety
• Strategic Thinking

Nice-to-haves

• Board certification or eligibility in a medical specialty related to therapeutic area.
• Relevant working experience in medical affairs or the pharmaceutical industry.
• Relevant working experience in medical information or clinical research (in academia or pharmaceutical industry).
• Minimum of 5 years of clinical practice

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays
• vacation
• compassionate and sick days

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