Job Description

The Therapeutic Area Lead (TA Lead) primarily serves as the leader of the Medical Advisor team for General Medicine in Poland.
The therapeutic area lead ensures a clear strategic vision and prioritization of all medical activities within their therapeutic area and ensures their team of medical affairs professionals execute upon this vision.
The TA Lead is the contact person for General Medicine within their country.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities:

• Develops and executes the local MA strategy for General Medicine

• Creates and maintains a high-performing, highly compliant Medical Advisor Team for General Medicine

• Represents Medical Affairs General Medicine in cross-functional strategic collaborations with other our Research & Development Division functions, Human Health (HH), and others

• Supports the Country Medical Director in representing our company in external activities related to General Medicine requiring the leadership and expertise of Country’s senior medical leader
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Leadership and Management of the Medical Advisors team of General Medicine

People

• Proactively recruits, on-boards, manages and develops talent

• Proactively identifies new opportunities and gaps vs. emerging needs and addresses in a timely manner by supporting the country medical director in reallocating and training of existing staff and/or external recruitment

• Creates an empowering, compliant, collaborative, and innovation-focused work environment

• Build a culture of quality and compliance through training, oversight, and collaboration

• Ensures that individual priorities and personal development plans are created and monitored
  

Country Medical Affairs Plans

• Strategically develops, executes, and delivers cMAPs for General Medicine including tactical deliverables for each therapeutic area, such as post-licensure research, publication plans, investigator-initiated studies, and other knowledge transfer activities

• Ensures alignment of the CMAPs with global strategy and Value and Implementation Priorities and adherence to all relevant regulations, Policies and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

• Drives actionable scientific insight activities to inform company strategies
  

Collaboration With Key Internal Stakeholders

• The Therapeutic Area Lead represents Medical Affairs in cross-functional Therapeutic Area teams and collaborations and advocates for the interests of the country with regional and global colleagues
  

Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE), Value & Patient Access, Policy, Regulatory Affairs

• Interacts with local Value & Patient Access (V&PA), CORE and Global Medical Scientific Affairs (GMSA) experts to develop and manage observational, real-world effectiveness and epidemiologic studies

• Collaborates with local V&PA to understand the needs for patient access, including the value discussions of our company’s General Medicine portfolio

• Collaborates with local V&PA and regulatory colleagues by providing scientific expertise and managing the medical aspects of submissions for regulatory, reimbursement or tenders for our company’s General Medicine portfolio
  

Global Clinical Development (GCD), Global Clinical Trial Operations (GCTO) and Global Medical Scientific Affairs (GMSA)

• Supports GCTO upon request

• Provide strategic input on potential sites and investigators to GCTO for our clinical development program
  

Our Company Human Health (MHH)

• Provides medical expertise, including sharing of insights to the commercial product teams, ensuring the scientific and medical value of our General Medicine products
  

Medical and Scientific Leadership

• Brings the local scientific and healthcare environment perspective to the Regional Medical Affairs team
  

Engagement With Key External Stakeholders

• The Therapeutic Area Lead supports the Country Medical Director in representing our company as a scientific expert on General Medicine to the external community.

• Supports the Country Medical Director in serving as external interface with key national/regional stakeholders, insurers/government leaders, selected professional societies, medical-scientific institutions, and the broader scientific community to lead and execute the medical research and implementation strategy for our company’s innovative General Medicine Portfolio ensuring that the medical community is appropriately engaged with the information they need to support patient care needs (e.g., scientific Group Input Meetings, scientific leader (SL) engagements, webinars, and presentations)

• Collaborates with CORE, Value & Patient Access, and Commercial colleagues to engage payers, policymakers, and other decision makers in support of our company’s innovative General Medicine portfolio.

• Builds a network of key scientific leaders in General Medicine to meet current and anticipated needs

• Develops and/or fosters relationships with external stakeholders in General Medicine to ensure that robust local insights from Scientific Leaders and patients are gathered and integrated into local, regional, and/or global strategies, plans, and tactics, enabling the generation of data needed by payers, physicians, and patients to properly understand and value our innovative vaccines.

• Participates in outcomes research/health economics engagements with national payers, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) or regulatory agencies, in coordination with CORE, Value & Patient Access, and Commercial colleagues.

Inclusive Mindset and Behavior

• Demonstrates eagerness to contribute to an environment of belonging, inclusion, and empowerment

• Leads by example and serves as a role model for creating, leading and retaining inclusive workforce

Required Qualifications, Skills, & Experience:

• MD, PhD, or PharmD

• At least 5 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience in clinical development and/or medical affairs

• Preferably people management experience

• Demonstrated leadership and organizational skills, including ability to set goals, communicate a vision and align people

• Experience in the specific therapeutic area

• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills, strong personal integrity, teamwork abilities (including the ability to lead a therapeutic team across a geographical area) and business acumen

• A thorough understanding of local/regional regulatory agencies, and other ethical guidelines, laws, and regulations relevant to the pharmaceutical industry and its customers to ensure compliance with all external and internal guidelines and standard operating procedures

• Strong prioritization skills and ability to understand how decisions fit into the broader context of corporate strategies

• Demonstrated ability to develop a network of scientific leaders and other key stakeholders (e.g., public groups, government officials, medical professional organizations)

• Ability to organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a constantly changing environment and to motivate a team to do the same

• Proven ability to effectively communicate information at country management level

• Ability to effectively collaborate across functions in a matrix environment

Required Skills:

Adaptability, Adaptability, Advisory Board Development, Clinical Development, Clinical Trials, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Healthcare Education, Healthcare Management, Healthcare Marketing, Health Outcomes Research, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Interpersonal Relationships, Investigator-Initiated Studies (IIS), Management Process, Medical Affairs, Medical Care, Medical Knowledge, Medical Marketing Strategy, Medical Research, Multiple Therapeutic Areas, Outcomes Research, Patient Access, Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs, Pharmacy Regulation, Prioritization {+ 5 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Job Posting End Date:

01/29/2026

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