Pharmaceutical Industry Analysis - Manager in Surrey

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The Medical Team exists to provide medical oversight and foster a ‘patient-first’ mentality within Havas Life London. The Medical Team is involved at all stages of project development, from project conception and touchpoints through the lifecycle to ensure the medical strategy is reviewed and aligned to deliver high-quality medical writing, clinical relevance, and regulatory compliance.

You will provide strategic, commercial, and clinical guidance to support both the agency and our clients. You will also be responsible for oversight of medical writing responsibilities across accounts and therapeutic areas, as well as considering the longer-term business needs of the agency to support both new and organic growth. Working alongside all Medical, Strategy, and Client Services teams, to ensure that projects meet key medical, strategic, and ethical standards in their delivery to clients, healthcare professionals, and patients.

The responsibilities of the role include:

• Providing strategic insight for client projects and programmes.
• Understanding the medical and commercial ramifications of client actions and offering perceptive solutions.
• Providing guidance surrounding the longer-term business needs of HLM.
• Thought leadership and managing medical writing accountabilities.
• Meeting facilitation, client liaison and communication.
• Project management (as required).
• Keeping up to date with therapy area knowledge.
• Ensuring the wider teams are kept up to date on medical and scientific developments.
• Providing clinical insight and ensuring clinical relevance and compliance in all projects that they are involved in.

This role is an entry-level position and would ideally suit individuals who have recently completed their FY2/F2 or Pharmacist training.

Additional responsibilities include:

• Working in conjunction with the Client Services and Strategy teams to formulate the optimal client solution and consider the longer-term commercial and/or medical ramifications.
• Having a deep scientific understanding of client products, therapy areas, portfolio, and clinical and commercial strategies.
• Attending and supporting international congresses to gather scientific and medical intelligence, as required.
• Providing meaningful and strategic clinical and healthcare environment insights.
• Developing and sharing best practice and up-to-date medical knowledge within accounts/therapy areas (e.g. medical backgrounders and clinical updates).
• Offering perceptive solutions to the medical and commercial issues faced by our clients.
• Championing the importance of considering the needs of patients, HCPs, and other relevant decision-makers at all stages of project delivery.
• Collaborating with account teams to ensure compliance with medical and industry ethical codes of practice and regulations (e.g. EFPIA, ABPI, Pharmacovigilance) to a standard expected by our clients.
• Providing high-quality medical writing review and guidance across a variety of formats and deliverables, as required.
• Supporting Client Services to scope the project and estimate hours for the medical and/or writing team resource on the project.
• Promoting the role of the Medical Team within the Havas network.

Qualifications: Medical, Pharmacy or Nursing degree.