Medical Affairs Manager - Biosimilar

Core Job Responsibilities :

Commercial Teams Business Partner (Marketing, Sales, Trade)

• Medical Strategy Execution
• Implement medical plans aligned with product lifecycle goals (pre-launch, launch, post-marketing).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Clinical Development, Marketing, Market Access) to ensure medical insights inform business decisions.
• Scientific Exchange & KOL Engagement
• Build and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), HCPs, and academic institutions.
• Organize and lead advisory boards, scientific meetings, and medical education programs.
• Evidence Generation
• Support the design and execution of Phase IV/post-marketing studies, real-world evidence (RWE) projects, and investigator-initiated trials (IITs).
• Interpret clinical data and contribute to scientific publications, abstracts, and congress presentations.
• Medical Content Development
• Review and approve medical materials (e.g., slide decks, FAQs, training documents) to ensure accuracy and compliance.
• Provide medical input for promotional materials and ensure adherence to regulatory guidelines (e.g., FDA, PHAP).
• Medical Support
• Act as a medical resource for internal teams (Sales, Marketing, MSLs) and external stakeholders.
• Address unsolicited medical inquiries from HCPs, ensuring timely and evidence-based responses.
• Continuing Medical Education
• Work with the Medical Affairs Director and CME personnel in planning for medical modules for use in CME activities like round table discussions, expert’s forum.
• Work with the Medical Affairs Director, CME Personnel, Therapeutic/Brand Managers in deliberating with KOL and Advisory Board members the contents of medical module for specific products.
• Review contents of medical modules, invitations to CME activities, CME AVP to ensure compliance to internal and external regulations.
• Compliance & Risk Management
• Ensure all activities comply with industry regulations (e.g., FDA, PHAP), company SOPs, and ethics and compliance standards.
• Mitigate risks by maintaining up-to-date knowledge of therapeutic area guidelines and competitor landscape.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Partner with Clinical Operations on trial recruitment and data dissemination.
• Support market access by raising disease awareness and securing national and institutional formulary inclusions in relevant therapeutic areas.
• Patient Support Programs
• Provide scientific and ethical guidance to marketing managers in conceptualizing programs that will enhance benefits to pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions to patients.
• Review contents of patient-centric materials disseminated by Abbott and specific programs that aim to assist patients, family members and community cope with diseases.
• Inventory and tracking of patient support programs, market research programs to ensure compliance to ethical guidance and monitor for any pharmacovigilance issues.
• New Product Introductions
• Assist the Senior Medical Manager in providing the business development unit, medical input in evaluating products for potential introduction into the local market.
• Provide medical support to the marketing team during the early planning/strategies for new products, line extensions, and/or new indications.
  
  

• Provide disease knowledge training, training in understanding the patient journey from pre-diagnosis, diagnosis, and pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment options.
• Provide training on basic pharmacology, clinical uses of Abbott products.
• Create and update training materials on patients, disease, and products.
  
  

• A Doctor of Medicine graduate and with license to practice in the Philippines as given by the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).
  
  

• Preferably at least three years of pharmaceutical industry experience and at least one year of postgraduate clinical experience.
• Knowledge and Experience :

• Scientific and ethical standards governing pharmaceutical products
• Teaching skills on the patient’s illness, the patient journey, and available treatment options
• Research : access relevant journal articles from indexed databases, interpretation of data and results of clinical studies
• Presentation skills synthesizing relevant medical concepts obtained from peer-reviewed references
• Competencies Required :
• Must have intense attention to details, able to work in a team environment, good organizational skills, and has a multi- tasking ability
• Strong communication skills
• Influencing and Leadership Skills
• Skills on synthesizing and integrating medical concepts from different sources/references and create a teaching module for specific disease/products
• Knowledge and skills in communicating medical concepts to marketing and sales team with or without medical background
• Core competencies essential in education which include : integrity, adaptability, collaboration, initiative, innovation