Medical Affairs & Patient Access Head

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Job Title: Medical Affairs & Patient Access Head

Location: Belarus, Minsk

About the role: 

The Head of Medical Affairs & Patient Access is responsible for providing overall strategic and managerial leadership for the Medical Affairs & Patient Access function for the LOC. He/she will contribute to the achievement of company success by putting the patient’s needs and safety into primary focus.

How you will contribute: 

• The Head of Medical Affairs & Patient Access will drive alignment across the Medical Affairs & Patient Access team, provide supervision for team members, and collaborate with key cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. market access, compliance, regulatory) across all Therapeutic Areas.
• This position is responsible for planning and implementing medical strategies and tactics, to increase the understanding of Takeda products amongst healthcare professionals in the country.
• This position will represent Takeda’s medical/scientific image among industry and healthcare practitioners and entities.
• Responsible for the overall medical and patient access function in the LOC including strategic planning, resourcing, and budgeting
• Leverage strong science to create compelling strategies that fulfill unmet medical needs and increase the availability of Takeda’s medicine to patients
• Represent the Medical Affairs & Patient Access function to senior cross-functional leadership as well as external stakeholders
• Identify, develop and implement high-value strategies for product development during full product life-cycle
• Provide oversight, input, and final approval of TA specific Medical Plans
• Oversee and ensure compliance of all responsible activities to relevant laws and regulations as well as internal standards and SOPs
• Serves as a final signatory for medical approval of promotional materials for scientific meetings, symposia, and other Medical Education activities, in accordance with applicable Codes of Practice and regulations as well as Takeda policies, within defined timelines
• Ensure patients have access to life-saving products whilst strictly complying with Takeda SOPs and code of conduct
• Actively participate in local pharmaceutical industries association/ societies committee meetings and analyze regular industry correspondence with follow-up and discussion with internal colleagues and other industry participants on relevant issues
• Enhance the company reputation and profile through an external focus, by representing the company on cross-company boards
• Responsible for representing Takeda by providing an expert medical voice with external stakeholders as needed
• Establish ongoing relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs), government officials, and healthcare organizations and ensure that significant developments in the field are identified and monitored
• Responsible for medical leadership in planning and implementing patient access programs as needed, as per local regulatory requirements, and in line with Takeda policies
• Provide medical expertise, governance and leadership to the Medical Affairs & Patient Access team with people management responsibilities:
  • Provide oversight and leadership to the subordinate team by ensuring that appropriate structures, systems, competencies and values are developed
  • Collaborate with direct reports to set and achieve appropriate KPIs
  • Provide and/or facilitate regular coaching of direct reports to improve capabilities and identify areas for future training, including in-field coaching to medical improvement
  • Support people development by ensuring all direct team members have an Individual Development Plan (IDP), career development opportunities, dedicated time for personal career development, and create succession plans for key roles.

What you bring to Takeda: 

Education

• Higher professional medical education and degree is required

Required Experience

• Minimum 8 years of Medical Affairs, Market and Patient Access, Marketing in the pharmaceutical industry
• At least 5 years of experience in senior management role
• Experience of work with hospital products

Preferred Experience

• High reputation in the industry with an established network within the medical community
• Business Development experience from a Medical Affairs perspective, including launches
• In-depth experience in market and patient access to medicine
• Innovative medicines experience is preferred

Skills & personal characteristics

• Good knowledge of healthcare systems
• Excellent leadership, managerial, interpersonal and relationship-building skills
• Solid people management skills and a desire to develop team members
• Highly collaborative, confident, and strong executive presence
• Strategic thinker, innovative, able to drive multiple-simultaneous initiatives, able to work under pressure
• Able to drive consensus across diverse stakeholders to achieve goals
• Ability to identify and proactively address issues before they reach crisis points
• Goal-oriented, focused, energetic, and enthusiastic
• Passionate and committed in all undertakings
• Excellent presentation skills
• IT savvy and digital knowledge is a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English (Upper-intermediate), Russian (native)

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Empowering our people to shine:

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