Junior Scientific Advisor Graduate

An excellent opportunity for a talented graduate to start a career in medical affairs with a global healthcare leader. Our mission is to improve patients' lives by providing customers with innovative science and differentiated healthcare solutions delivered by diverse and engaged talent with integrity, passion and focus on performance.

Job Purpose: To support the medical team in managing all relevant medical affairs activities and become a ‘data expert’ for the Therapeutic Area (TA). This support ultimately helps to ensure that the information we give to health care professionals enables them to understand the benefits and risks of our drugs and make evidence-based decisions for the good of their patients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build a good knowledge of the TA related disease area, Medical Affairs, drug development, the healthcare system and ABPI code.
• Support activities and logistics as part of the Medical Affairs Plan such as advisory boards, medical education meetings and projects.
• Work with the broader team (field & Head Office) to ensure congress excellence.
• Leverage clinical/scientific data to support the TA franchise by reviewing promotional and non-promotional materials, checking the scientific integrity of content.
• Deliver medical plans by uploading and referencing medical educational materials in the internal approval system.
• Develop high quality and timely briefing materials/training on relevant appropriate data and may deliver internal training as required.
• Provide administrative support as required, including budget management for projects and logistics, co-ordination of team meetings, organisation of itineraries and logistics for ongoing activities, and compilation of materials and information to support any complaints process.

Benefits:

• Team oriented atmosphere
• Cutting edge science
• Working with diverse people and teams
• Making a difference to patients' lives

Candidate Requirements:

• Educated to degree level in Life Sciences, Medicine, or Pharmacy (completed pre-registration pharmacy exams).
• Experience within UK healthcare and/or pharmaceuticals environment is an advantage, but not necessary.
• Clear motivation and ambition to gain experience in a medical affair environment.
• Ability to evidence skills which are transferrable to the business environment (e.g., good time management, teamwork).
• Proactivity – ability to work independently and proactively under own initiative, taking responsibility and driving projects and activities to a successful conclusion.
• Analytical thinking – can understand and use complex data and communicate it to a wide range of professional and lay audiences, adapting wording and style to suit.
• Prioritisation - manages multiple priorities well, demonstrating good attention to detail under tight deadlines.
• Collaboration & teamwork - can develop effective relationships with team and customers, gaining trust and credibility quickly.
• Customer focused mindset - delivering high quality projects and activities to internal and external groups with awareness and responsiveness to their needs.
• Fluency in English - verbal and written – is required.
• IT savvy and highly proficient with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, PPT skills and Word at Advanced Level).

Please ensure that you are willing and able to live within commutable distance of the company site before applying. This placement is based in White City in London, and we would like you to be in the office 2-3 days per week, to aid your development in working with and learning from your team. You will need to be eligible to work in the UK.