Job Description

Role Summary

• The Medical Consult and Review Physician (MCRP) position resides in the Value & Implementation (V&I) organization, which includes Global Medical and Scientific Affairs as well as Outcomes Research.
• This position provides clinical expertise and advice to internal stakeholders and is a member of several cross-functional teams, including the Promotional Review Team (PRT), Digital Engagement Team (DET), Lead/Last, and V&I medical Team.
• Key responsibilities include ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials, external communications, and field-based employee training; participating in strategic planning, global scientific-content development, and the review/approval of standard response documents (SRDs) on product safety and efficacy; interacting with health-care providers (HCPs) to help answer unsolicited professional medical information requests (MIRs); providing medical and scientific training to internal stakeholders; collaborating to develop training content and implement scientific updates; and providing consultation for Compendia and Pathways submissions. Additionally, this position serves as a subject-matter expert (SME) and serves as a consultant to various parts of the company (e.g., commercial, manufacturing, supply chain, business development) regarding supply-related decisions such as deletions, divestitures, and supply constraints. This position also helps lead US Patient Advocate Expert Input Meetings when required and submits on-label information to U.S. guidelines committees when needed.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

Medical Review of Promotional Materials

• Provides clinical expert guidance and advice to Commercial Brand teams to influence promotional strategy and messaging based on scientific evidence and clinical context.
• Serves as a member of the Promotion Review Team (PRT), responsible for ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials, external communications, and Field-Based Employee (FBE) training content.
• Supports Country Medical Directors as headquarters (HQ) point of contact and SME for medical review.
• Serves as a product SME during V&I global assurance process for country assessment.

Digital Engagement Teams

• Provides clinical-expert guidance and advice in the creation of digital promotional assets based on scientific evidence and clinical context.
• Serves as a member of the extended team, responsible for ensuring the clinical relevance and medical accuracy of data/information in promotional materials and external-communications content

Medical Information

• Provides actionable insights for strategic planning and global scientific-content development of medical-information assets, ensuring adequate integration of scientific evidence with patient safety and clinical relevance elements in a customer-centric approach.
• Reviews all medical information resources and standard response documents containing product safety, tolerability, and efficacy data.
• Interacts with HCPs who request a live discussion with physicians to answer unsolicited MIRs.
• Reviews health-outcomes-related standard-response documents and drug dossiers to ensure clinical relevance and medical accuracy of the content.
• Is a proactive participant and consultant for Compendia and Pathways submissions. Owner of Clinical Practice Guideline submissions.

Strategic Coordination and Alignment

• Proactively works with the Global Scientific & Value Content (GSVC) team and participates in the product strategic planning, ensuring a tailored approach in creating and disseminating scientific content aligned with key scientific priorities and the GSVC plan.
• Serves as medical representative on the Deletion and Divestiture Committee (DDC). Provides medical-significance assessments to inform product deletions, divestitures, stock-outs, and shortages.
• Proactively engages in peer-to-peer conversations with key colleagues in our company Research & Development (R&D) division to provide/request input and ensure alignment to enhance the provision of accurate and customized medical information assets for customers and stakeholders.
• Works as an active participant on select teams to provide insights on labeling language, anticipate activities related to labeling updates, and facilitate timely and efficient scientific-response letter development and/or updates to support addressing Medical information requests (MIRs).
• Actively contacts and interacts with the Risk Management Safety Team when required.
• Acts as a SME for creation/update of select V&I process/standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Medical Education and Training

• Supports creation of medical training curricula for the products to address basic and advanced training needs of V&I personnel.
• Collaborates with Learning & Development to develop training content and approve training resources for field personnel.
• Collaborates with Global Scientific & Value training team (GSVT) to develop training content review training resources for Field medical personnel.
• Implements speaker training activities in collaboration with Global Expert Management Services Consulting & Medical Education.
• Participates in training and/or mentoring of new team members.

Required Qualifications, Skills and Experience

Minimum

• MD.
• Post-graduate clinical training (residency).
• Understanding of regulations and compliance considerations impacting the pharmaceutical industry.
• Ability to work in a complex organizational environment and effectively operate in a team-oriented structure.
• Ability to analyze/synthesize data, provide solutions, and formulate strategies.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

Preferred

• Board certification or eligibility in a medical specialty related to therapeutic area.
• Relevant working experience in medical affairs or the pharmaceutical industry.
• Relevant working experience in medical information or clinical research (in academia or pharmaceutical industry).
• Minimum of 5 years of clinical practice

Required Skills:

Clinical Development, Clinical Experience, Clinical Research, Clinical Training, Collaborating, Communication, Decision Making, External Communication, Pharmaceutical Industry, Product Safety, Strategic Thinking

Preferred Skills:

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The salary range for this role is

$255,800.00 - $402,700.00

This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, government requirements, and business or organizational needs.

The successful candidate will be eligible for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits. Available benefits include medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, including 401(k), paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days. More information about benefits is available at https://jobs.merck.com/us/en/compensation-and-benefits.

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Job Posting End Date:

01/14/2026

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