GPH Vaccines Medical Affairs Manager at Johnson & Johnson

Job Description
Develop and conduct medical activities within scientific premise and provide cross-departmental strategic guidance in line with company strategies and goals.

External Relations: Opinion Leaders, Healthcare Professionals, Clinical Trial Personnel, Organization Providers, Advertising Agencies, Health Authorities, Patient Organizations and Specialty Associations

Responsibilities

• Is a member of the Africa regional / country Vaccines Triad.
• Works actively to develop new strategies and improve existing ones for Vaccines. For this purpose, collects and consolidates the necessary medical data and provides input to team meetings by providing scientific data to top ethical standards.
• Keeps scientific data up-to-date.
• Works cross-departmentally to consolidate strategy for Vaccines.
• Provides scientific input to preparatory work for market research, planned for conducting marketing strategies.
• Ensures medical aspects of company strategies and practices are compliant with Health Care Business Integrity (HCBI), national and global ethical procedures.
• Organizes medical training events and ensures these are compliant with HCBI, national and international ethical procedures, as well as company and marketing strategies.
• Plays an active role in determining and organizing medical programs (e.g. training programs, international / national congress participation, advisory board meetings, courses, disease awareness programs), follows up on them and assesses their results.
• Records data into iConnect and compiles of monthly reports, in line with the applicable procedures.
• Participates in medical training activities, contributing to achievement of product plans.
• Develops and executes, follows up on and assesses the results of training for field force to equip them with sufficient and essential medical information.
• Plans and executes training, to ensure continuity of training programs.
• Collects and evaluates scientific data on competitive products/product groups, and updates own product groups to effectively guide marketing strategies and activities.
• Maintains continuous contact with opinion leaders through scientific platforms like national/international congresses and medical education activities.
• Coordinates with regional and or country level opinion leaders, associations and health authorities for developing medical education activities. Makes visits to maintain constant contact with physicians as planned on Vinci, giving clinical presentations to share product information.
• Provides medical support for updating SmPC/package leaflet of registered products or for developing SmPC/package leaflet for prior to registration, and input to reimbursement efforts. Develops the medical content of reimbursement files.
• Collaborates closely with the other GPH Africa Vaccines Triad members (Access and Health Systems Lead and Program Liasion), Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, Marketing and Business Development, holding regular meetings with them to support continuous improvement and development, and providing product- and disease-related scientific data.
• Provides leadership to support effective functioning of MSLs. Coordinates as necessary to determine MSL visits qualitatively and quantitatively and ensure MSL visits are conducted according to the plan in the iConnect. Monitors MSL visits/presentations by weekly and monthly reports.
• Conducts field visits as planned for necessary supervision and takes action to identify and eliminate any training shortcomings.
• Responsible for MSL role descriptions, recruitment, and orientation. Identifies areas of personal development and communicates appropriate information in those areas and provides support and direction (via training, coaching and motivation) to improve performance, in order to enhance personal development and performance of direct reports.
• Provides medical support for updating SmPC / package leaflet of registered products or for developing SmPC/package leaflet for prior to registration, and input to reimbursement efforts. Develops the medical content of reimbursement files.
• Collaborates closely with Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, Marketing and Business Development, holding regular meetings with them to support continuous improvement and development, and providing product- and disease-related scientific data.
• Provides medical assistance to development of promotional materials. Checks all product- / disease-related materials to verify their consistency, scientific accuracy and validity, and ensures scientific content of promotional materials is compliant with HCBI policies and local regulations.
• Participates in and supports activities to promote company and products.
• Receives and follows up on drug safety information from physicians and forwards it to the qualified person responsible for pharmacovigilance in line with the applicable rules.
• Contributes to practices and action plans by PV and quality assurance teams regarding drug quality and safety issues reported by local or global sources.
• Reviews and responds to requests from the field force or physicians, falling within area of responsibility, and records them in med-info.
• Thinks proactively about potential objections/issues related with products, taking into consideration feedback from field force or physicians, investigates them and contributes to solving them.
• Assist with the set-up of clinical studies including real world evidence generation (identifying investigators, selecting centers, investigator meetings, joint visits, identifying the congresses/magazines for presenting the data, etc.), supports establishing communication with investigators as part of clinical investigation activities.
• Plays an active role in developing local research protocols, in addition to global protocols. Coordinates with clinical investigation teams for adapting these protocols. 
• Supports and coordinates with the Global Therapy Area Manager for reviewing posters, clinical study abstracts and manuscripts for local studies.
• Coordinates with the clinical investigation team on NPP, research support. Contributes to the approval process.
• Plays an active role in the development, management, and follow-up of the medical budget for relevant products.
• Provides the necessary scientific support for pipeline products to be included in the portfolio of responsibility and plays an active role in the activities.
• Plays an active role in product launch preparations, enhances communication with target physician groups and coordinates robustly with opinion leaders / associations / health authorities for medical positioning of products and determining appropriate strategies.
• Plays an active role in training and medical activity planning and execution.
• Regional/Sub-Regional role:  Africa for all Vaccines (Covid, Ebola, HIV).  Part of the Medical & Scientific Affairs team.
• Interaction and engage with regional bodies, authorities and organisations, SAGE, NITAG, WHO and national department of health to ensure access to Vaccines

Qualifications

• Medical (MD, MBBS or equivalent) or Science Degree (PhD or equivalent)
• Industry experience
• Experience in providing and managing medical training/education
• Good command of the English language Competency in using MS Office applications
• Strong communication skills
• Analytical thinking
• Result oriented
• Quality focused and efficient
• Open to growth
• Persuasion skills
• Vaccine experience is highly desirable
• Expected to demonstrate Leadership Requirements