Medical Science Liaison PAH, Gulf

Role Overview

Medical Science Liaison PAH, Gulf at Johnson & Johnson, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Company Overview

Johnson & Johnson is a healthcare innovation company with expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech. The Pulmonary Hypertension team is focused on transforming the disease into a long-term manageable condition and developing effective treatments that help patients live their best possible life.

Role Purpose

To maximize company product value through high scientific quality communication with Leading Specialists on a peer-to-peer basis. The Medical Science Liaison is jointly responsible for the realization of short-term and long-term company goals and serves as a therapeutic area scientific expert in PAH, discussing products, patients' treatment trends and studies with defined audiences including Physicians, Pharmacists, Hospital Managers, Board Members of Scientific Societies, and other partners.

Key Responsibilities

Medical and Scientific Knowledge

• Keep abreast of medical and scientific knowledge.
• Continuously update knowledge of products, patients' treatment trends, clinical activities and studies conducted within the therapeutic area in the region.

Stakeholder Engagement and Relationship Management

• Develop and maintain a contact network with Leading Specialists.
• Understand their needs, key value drivers, practical treatment patterns and scientific activities within the therapeutic area.
• Communicate value of company products, including formulary discussions.
• Be considered a trusted scientific counterpart to defined audiences.

Scientific Communication and Medical Information

• Communicate directly and proactively scientific information of company products within the approved label.
• Communicate non-promotional general information about the company, including description of research and development programs.
• Respond to unsolicited scientific queries of customers for approved products and products or indications in development, based on Medical Affairs and Medical Information documents.
• Through scientific interactions, champion medical benefits of products and contribute to fostering innovative approaches.

Professional Representation

• Represent the company within therapeutic area professional associations in cooperation with Medical Advisor, Medical Lead, or Medical Director.

Medical Education Activities

• Identify, support, and educate speakers.
• Build Medical Education programs with scientific third parties.
• Organize and participate in Advisory Boards in cooperation with Medical Advisor, Medical Lead, or Medical Director.

Sales Support

• Provide medical and product training and scientific support to Sales Representatives in coordination with the Training Department as appropriate.
• Act as a reference point to Sales Representatives for any scientific query, in collaboration with Medical Information as appropriate.

Medical Affairs Study Execution

• Support the setup and follow up of registries and other non-interventional Medical Affairs studies.
• Propose investigators and sites for interventional and non-interventional Medical Affairs studies.
• Participate in investigator meetings preparation, recruitment follow-up and study result presentation.
• Receive investigator proposals for IIS and ensure they are discussed within the Medical Affairs department for decision.

Insight and Business Support

• Through scientific interactions, gain valuable insight into treatment patterns and scientific activities in the therapeutic area.
• Provide input to the company Medical Affairs Plan and business decision-making.
• Achieve main performance measures and performance goals.

Qualifications & Experience

• Pharmacist or Physician bachelor's degree; postgraduate studies is an advantage.
• Minimum of 1 year of relevant experience in a multinational pharmaceutical company is an advantage.
• Experience in rare diseases therapy area is an advantage, preferably in PAH.
• Gulf experience is required.
• Clinical Research experience for IIS and RWE is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Scientific acumen and communication skills in order to be accepted by Leading Specialists in peer-to-peer relationship.
• Highly customer focused with an awareness of the importance of business results.
• Innovative with the ability to coordinate and drive a complex and changing environment.
• Analytical Reasoning.
• Analytics Dashboards.
• Clinical Experience.
• Coaching.
• Communication.
• Competitive Landscape Analysis.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration.
• Data Gathering and Analysis.
• Detail-Oriented.
• Digital Culture.
• Digital Literacy.
• Interpersonal Influence.
• Market Research.
• Medical Affairs.
• Medical Communications.
• Medical Compliance.
• Problem Solving.
• Scientific Research.
• Stakeholder Engagement.
• Strategic Thinking.
• Technical Credibility.
• Technologically Savvy.

Additional Information

• Position type: Onsite.