Medical Affairs Director

Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description Summary

Strategically leads, oversees and manages medical affairs governance and operations. Strong focus on operational excellence, high standards, risk management and process improvement. Manages a large and complex team of approx 10 people with roles covering medical governance, data and evidence generation activities, managed access programs, precision medicine and established brands medical affairs.

Location:
London Office with Hybrid working (12 days per month in the office)

This role is based in London, UK. Novartis is unable to offer relocation or any visa support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you and you have the right to work in the UK.

Major accountabilities:

• Performance: Drive operational excellence and integrity across medical affairs. Instill a data-informed and performance driven organisational mindset.

• Medical Affairs Strategy and Operations: Provide strategic oversight across medical affairs activities, with a focus on activities run to GxP standards including local studies and managed access.

• Evidence Generation: Early initiation of integrated evidence-generation strategies to inform global and local evidence generation activities. Ensure high operational and ethical standards across evidence generation activities with a focus on impact. Encourage use of novel access pathways.

• Leadership and Culture: Manage a complex team of approx 10 people with roles supporting medical affairs activities across therapy areas. Build effective and accountable teams and develop talent and capability. Effective cross-functional leadership. Model and instill culture, values and behaviours. Enterprise leadership and customer focus.

Requirements:

• Medical Qualification and GMC registered, pharmacist or life science graduate.

• Extensive experience in medical affairs, in particular in evidence generation or governance related roles.

• People management experience.

• Strong matrix leadership and influencing skills.

• Deep knowledge of evidence generation and life sciences infrastructure in the UK.

• Strong working knowledge of healthcare systems and external stakeholder engagement.

• Deep understanding of GxP, drug development and approval.

• Strategy Development.

• Collaborating across boundaries.

• People Leadership.

Why Novartis?
Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!

You’ll receive:
Competitive salary, Annual bonus, Pension scheme, Share purchase scheme, Health insurance, 25 days annual leave, Flexible working arrangements, subsidised dining facilities, Employee recognition scheme, learning and development opportunities.

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Skills Desired: Clinical Protocols, Cross-Functional Work, Data Analysis, Drug Development, Employee Development, Healthcare Sector Understanding, Health Sciences, Influencing Skills, Innovation, Inspirational Leadership, Integrated Evidence Generation, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Education, Patient Care, People Management, Pharmaceutics, Priority Disease Areas Expertise, Product Launches, Product Strategies, Real World Evidence (RWE), Regulatory Compliance, Research Methodologies, Results-Oriented.