Therapeutic Area Medical Head, Gulf Cluster

2 weeks ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Novartis Full time

769 million lives touched by our products. Imagine what you could do at Novartis. No matter where you work, you could contribute to solving some of the toughest healthcare challenges and have an extraordinary impact on people’s lives. Join us
- We are looking for a Therapeutic Area Medical Head to join our Gulf Cluster.Major accountabilities of this role are as defined below:

- Drug Development/Clinical Research Support:
- Provide strong scientific input on the global CDPs being the medical expert in the CPO
- Provide medical expertise/advise for the GCO teams: - Lead and/or perform protocol, country and site feasibility
- Provide protocol, Risk management plan & disease training as appropriate at Investigator’s Meetings or scientific forums or internally.
- Review and try to resolve local medical issues / questions that arise during the entire course of the trial - if necessary transferring issues to global teams.
- Support the regional/global teams on the local level.
- Develop, review and approve local studies’ documents.

Leadership & Management:
- Responsible for the management and coaching of MAs and MSLs.
- Provide ongoing assessment of the MAs’ competencies and skills, effectiveness and progress toward clear objectives.
- Responsible for developing the medical & scientific communication strategy to the MEs.
- Responsible for the performance management, evaluation process, and organizational talent review process for MAs/MSLs.
- Ensure implementation of all Novartis policies/ processes within the team.
- Assessment of the needs and implementation of annual development plans.

Resource Allocation:
- Recruit, hire and on-board a high performing team of MAs/MSLs within the responsible TAs.
- Optimize resources within assigned team priorities.

Strategic Alignment and planning:
- Develop the annual medical objectives/priorities for the assigned TAs.
- Responsible to develop the scientific part of the IPS and follow up on execution.
- Represent the medical department in cross functional teams for strategic planning/alignment.

Global/regional Medical Affairs Alignment:
- Promote good communication and teamwork between the local, Regional & global medical affairs teams.

Internal/External scientific Support:
- Build strong network with MEs across Gulf Cluster, gaining insights on Novartis medical department position among all MNCs.
- Provide support to execute the annual scientific communications & publication plans.
- Work closely with the medical team for high quality implementation and execution of medical plans and cross functional collaboration.

**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**
- Requirements:
- Higher medical qualification or Doctoral degree preferred (PharmD, PhD, MD)
- Strong Clinical Research background and knowledge of all related guidelines and regulations.
- Solid understanding of business and market
- High level of collaboration and interpersonal communication skills.
- Scientific analytical skills and demonstrated clinical credibility.
- Strategic and critical thinking
- People management, development and coaching skills.
- Leadership skills and ability to energize and align the team.
- Flexibility to perform tasks outside the specific area of expertise
- Demonstrates high level of personal integrity
- External orientation and customer focus.

**Division**
- PHARMA

**Business Unit**
- AMAC

**Country**
- Utd.Arab Emir.

**Work Location**
- Dubai

**Company/Legal Entity**
- NOV MIDDLE EAST FZA UAE

**Functional Area**
- Research & Development

**Job Type**
- Full Time

**Employment Type**
- Regular

**Shift Work**
- No

**Early Talent**
- No



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