Medical Lead Rare Diseases

The Medical Lead is responsible for providing quality scientific and clinical support to medical and medico-marketing activities and to support business franchise.

Key Responsibilities:

Medical support & KOL Management

• Be the medical guide for the Rare Disease portfolio and be responsible for leading of the cross functional brand team inputting and driving the strategy for the brands in line with the global strategy.

• Establish and develop positive relationships with key external customers including KOLs/ professional groups in relevant therapeutic area, to gain insight to support sound decision making and brand strategy development.

• Strategy preparation for the rare disease portfolio based on the gained insights, market conditions and ensuring implementation of planned activities and fulfillment of set goals.

• Contribute to identiffication and mapping of Medical Experts/key partners in line with local strategies.

• Provide and discuss scientific information and data with HCPs to ensure quality and accuracy of medical and scientific information on new treatment options including Novartis products and selected areas of therapeutic interest.

• Liaise and provide up-to-date medical support to relevant external groups to ensure evidence-based understanding of Novartis products relative to medical guidelines, and health economic information.

• Coordinate scientific meetings, symposia, congresses, Continuous Medical Education (CME) and other medical exchange and engagement activities which could bring additional value to the given therapy area; develop engagement plan(s) for country customer-facing activities, events and ensure timely execution of planned medical affairs activities in an efficient and compliant way.

• Ensure medical enquiries are responded to in a high quality, timely manner, and in accordance with applicable standards; establish standard response documents as appropriate, for frequently asked questions.

• Coordinate review and approval of medical materials and locally developed promotional materials, ensure medical materials provided from global or region for stakeholder engagement and events are tailored to local needs, and reviewed/approved per local guidelines.

• Patient Oriented Programs: POP Owner is responsible for the overall management and compliance of his/her respective Patient Oriented Programs (POPs) according to Novartis global and local procedures, Good Documentation Practices and Health Authority regulations. As POP SQA Manager, they are responsible for onboarding assessment of an External Service Provider (ESP) site conducting Patient Oriented Programs (POPs) on behalf of Novartis according to Novartis global and procedures.

• Responsible for medical training of Novartis staff.

• Management of gene therapy treatment process, logistics, site management.

Clinical Development Support, RWE, MAPs & reporting AEs

• Contributes to the identification of appropriate clinical investigators and facilitates allocation of NVS sponsored clinical trials.

• Support the investigational sites as needed, as part of a cross-functional team with SSO, CRMAs and other as appropriate.

• Identifies clinical investigators with research proposals for the compounds in phase II/III that are consistent with or product development strategies and facilitates the process including study completion, presentation, publication, as appropriate.

• Provide scientific activities to support study accrual for key trials as appropriate.

• Increase awareness of Novartis clinical research program to improve patient identification and trial accrual.        

• Encourages utility of more innovative digital technologies for more meaningful and impactful engagements and data generation and utilization.

• Supports utility of RWE innovative study designs and exploratory trials (where applicable) across TAs to accelerate patient access; oversight of Managed Access Programs (MAPs), IITs etc.

• Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt.

Essential Requirements:

• University degree in MD, PharmD, RNDr, MVDr. or other life sciences
• Proficient English and Slovak
• Project Excellence
• Solid medical background and validated proficiencies
• Influencing skills

​• Annual bonus

• Company car

​• Monthly pension contribution matching your contribution up to 3% of your gross monthly base salary

• Possibility to purchase company shares
​• Risk Life Insurance (full cost covered by Novartis)
​• 1 week holiday above the Labour Law requirement
​• 4 paid sick days within one calendar year in case of absence due to sickness without a medical sickness report
​• Cafeteria employee benefit program – choice of benefits from Benefit Plus SK for 500 EUR per year
​• Meal vouchers of 6,50 EUR each working day (full tax covered by the company)

• Hybrid role 
​• MultiSport Card contribution​