Group Manager, Medical Education

Job title: Group Manager, Medical Education

Job description: Job Description

10,000! 10,000 HCPs received medical education across five therapeutic areas including Cardiovascular and Gene Therapy. Shape Canada’s Medical Education team with a passion to help drastically improve the quality of life for patients. You lead the Medical Education Managers on the execution of strategic medical plans in their assigned Therapeutic area. You are focused on enhancing the valued partnership of the medical education team through the development of the medical education strategies to improve healthcare professionals’ (HCP) knowledge, skills and ultimately patient outcomes.

Your responsibilities:
Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead scientific engagement with their Medical Experts. Implement clinical and educational strategies and respond to unsolicited medical enquiries. Lead field medical activities in collaboration with cross-functional teams and mentor other Field Medical associates.• Engage with Medical Experts (MEs) to educate on medical/scientific information
• Ensure appropriate identification/mapping of MEs/ Key Accounts including identification of opportunities to involve MEs when a specific medical need is identified to provide support -Develop/execute ME engagement plans to effectively prioritize and strategically engage MEs aligned with country strategy
• Proactively contribute to the development/execution of medical strategy/tactical plans, including collecting, analyzing, and reporting impactful insights from MEs.
• Support Novartis clinical research programs, optimize trial execution and provide scientific educational support to study sites in collaboration with clinical operations.
• Facilitate Investigator Initiated Trial (IIT) process upon investigator request -Provide expert disease area/ product training, serve as a medical resource to field colleagues, actively coach/mentor others

Minimum requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Preferred: MD or PharmD/PhD. CCPE or equivalent industry-accredited Continuing Medical Education certification strongly recommended. A minimum of 8 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, including 3+ years people management experience as well as a proved track record in Medical Education or similar role.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire a group towards meeting and exceeding objectives
• Strong planning and organization, problem solving and decision making skills as well as negotiating skills
• Proven transformative mindset and ability to lead change
• Strong agility to try, fail and learn fast to be able to test multiple solutions and improve on them
• Fluent in English & French.

Travel: 15%

You’ll receive:
An inspired, engaging and dynamic team of individuals to work with. Competitive salary, annual bonus, pension scheme, health insurance, flexible working arrangements, subsidized dining facilities, employee recognition scheme. Find out more about Novartis Canada: https://www.novartis.ca/

Why consider Novartis?
769 million. That’s how many lives our products touch. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?

We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.

Imagine what you could do at Novartis!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Novartis embraces diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration, and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.

Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network.

Functional Area

Research & Development

Division

PHARMA

Business Unit

LACAN PHARMA

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No

Company: Novartis

Expected salary:

Location: Dorval, QC

Job date: Thu, 06 May 2021 02:31:30 GMT