Medical Lead Immunology

21,000. That’s how many people Novartis hires globally every year. We want curious, courageous and collaborative people like you to join our inspiring environment. Here you’re given opportunities to make a genuine impact on our patient driven mission. Here you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Did you ever imagine how many lives could be touched by your daily work?
- The people we serve need you to achieve the extraordinary. That's why at Novartis we empower you to bring your best self; we value your diversity of thought and trust your ability to make things happen.
- The main purpose of this role is to support the design, implementation and execution of Medical Affairs plans for assigned Therapy Area, providing scientific information, helping design and organise clinical studies, building educational dialogue with KOLs and regulatory stakeholders.
- Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Prepares and drives the execution of the local Medical Affairs strategic plans aligned and in collaboration with other functions. This plan should be built based on local stakeholder needs and in line with the Franchise and medical strategies as outlined in the Integrated Product Strategy (IPS) Plans.
- Lead early identification of strategic drivers, elaboration of patient journey, positioning, target population, the wider stakeholder population mapping and segmentation.
- Identifies opportunities for joint value creation through engagement with the key scientific leaders and other partners in the healthcare systems including Patients and Patient Associations to co-design strategies and studies, advocating in the assigned therapeutic area. Utilizes Ominchannels where possible
- Gathers and internally shares relevant captured insights (advisory boards, events etc), to shape the disease area strategy.
- Accountable to Co-developing integrated evidence plans and ensuring local execution of these plans beginning at DDP/POC and throughout the lifecycle in partnership with Global Drug Development (GDD), functional partners, healthcare systems, patients and other external stakeholders.
- Identifies Real World Evidence (RWE) needs and utilizes implementation science and other innovative methodologies, to close the gap ensuring patient and clinical adoption and better outcomes. Responsible for local and global evidence generation submissions
- Leads the Post Trial Access (PTA) and Managed Access Programs (MAP) at local level, evaluates Investigator-Initiated research studies and Trials (IITs) and Research Collaborations (RC) for scientific rigor and alignment.
- Provides key medical expertise on the company’s pipeline programs, disease areas and approved brands. Performs comprehensive evaluation of related products passing DDP/FDP to enable effective cross-functional New Product Planning for the Country Pharma Organization (CPO). Provide informed CPO input to Global strategies, protocols, etc if assigned early product portfolio.

**Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**:

- Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve._

**Minimum requirements**
- MD or PhD/PharmD in Health Sciences (requirement as per country strategy and/or local regulations)
- Desired: Specialist Degree in Internal Medicine and/or Rheumatology. Business degree (e.g. MBA)
- English: fluent spoken & written
- Pharmaceutical industry experience
- Significant clinical background and/or clinical experience in area. Knowledge of health care system dynamics is a plus
- Strong medical and scientific bases and agility to transverse the diseases’ area
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Strong business acumen

Why Novartis?
766 million lives were touched by Novartis medicines in 2021, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives.
We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.
We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life, is the risk of never trying
Imagine what you could do here at Novartis

**Division**
- PHARMA

**Business Unit**
- LACAN PHARMA

**Country**
- Panama

**Work Location**
- Panama

**Company/Legal Entity**
- Novartis Panama, S.A.

**Functional Area**
- Research & Development

**Job Type**
- Full Time

**Employment Type**
- Regular

**Shift Work**
- No

**Early Talent**
- No