Medical Affairs Manager at Johnson & Johnson in Mumbai, India

Job description

• DePuy Synthes is recruiting for Medical Affairs Manager, located in Mumbai, India.
• The Country Medical Lead is a member of the Country DPS Board, functioning as a strategic collaborator, bringing surgical insights, knowledge of local healthcare ecosystems, policy, trends and guidelines to inform and support shaping the commercial strategy, maximizing opportunities DPS Country business.
• This role provides critical input into the global innovation agenda through gaining and assimilating customer insights to define key unmet needs, and through early, pro-active identification and assessment of evidence needs to address key stakeholder needs within the country for market registration, access & adoption.
• The Country Scientific lead reports to the DS MA Lead International with a dotted line to the Country Depuy Synthes Managing Director.

Responsibilities

• Supports Country business leaders by
• Understanding needs of the different clinical and non-clinical stakeholders in the healthcare environment and building strong relationships externally with key stakeholders (Strategic Accounts, Hospital Groups, Regulatory Agencies, Medical Societies, etc.) to drive business initiatives
• building strong relationships and partnerships with customers, especially focused on the development of Key Opinion Leaders.
• anticipating, evaluating and responding to competitive activity
• seeking and establishing strategic partnerships to help drive core business areas
• Ensures that the evidence supporting Depuy Synthes products and services is appropriate and sufficient for the Country market (ie for regulatory approval/clearance, health technology assessment, reimbursement, customer access, technology and service adoption, OBCs, medical safety and post‐marketing support) and is communicated well.
• anticipating healthcare trends, policy and the evolving healthcare ecosystem
• collaborating with the Global Franchise Medical affairs teams by providing critical input into the Global innovation agenda through gaining and assimilating customer insights to define key unmet needs
• providing input to the evidence generation strategy through early, pro-active identification and assessment of evidence needs to address key stakeholders needs within the country for market registration, access and adoption
• supporting in the execution of evidence plans, including case support, identification of evidence generation opportunities (e.g. data sharing agreements with early adoptors)
• input to the evidence dissemination strategy, driving evidence implementation within the country by providing scientific and medical support of areas of surgical expertise to drive business initiatives incl. facilitating scientific and medical meetings
• Acts as a contributor (where appropriate) and reviewer/approver of medical, scientific, promotional, market access and other informational material for country/region consumption.

Requirements

• Required Years of Related Experience: 5‐10 years’ experience of one of the following activities is required: post graduate medical education (beyond initial licensure), fellowship or subspecialty surgical training, clinical practice; and/or with dedicated research, and/or industry experience in Medical/Clinical/R&D roles in a highly regulated, commercial pharma/medical device business.
• High emotional intelligence
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills for interactions with internal colleagues and external customers.
• Great balance between strategy and execution to drive innovation and growth.
• Capability to influence executive stakeholders internally and externally to deliver value-based solutions.
• Expertise & business acumen in a surgical field or in medical device industry.
• Strong competence in Leadership Imperatives, with strong emphasis on Lead and Deliver.
• Deep alignment with the J&J Credo
• People Management Experience: Required
• Required Skills:
• Preferred Minimum Education: Additional advanced degrees are highly valued (e.g. MBA and/or PhD)
• Other: experience as practicing surgeon or within related roles in the medical device industry
• Preferred Related Industry Experience: Demonstrated expertise and success in country or regional Medical Affairs role(s) serving different clinical specialties or therapeutic areas is preferred.
• Demonstrated success in medical education, including the oversight of training programs and their implementation; and clinical evidence generation, interpretation and publication are preferred.
• Analytical Reasoning, Clinical Research and Regulations, Clinical Trials Operations, Communication, Critical Thinking, Healthcare Trends, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Compliance, Organizing, Product Strategies, Publications Management, Scientific Research, Strategic Thinking, Team Management, Training People

Skills

Required

• High emotional intelligence
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Deep alignment with the J&J Credo

Preferred

• Analytical Reasoning
• Clinical Research and Regulations
• Clinical Trials Operations
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Healthcare Trends
• Medical Affairs
• Medical Communications