Medical Advisor Melanoma

Join a multi-award-winning leading biopharmaceutical company
- Bring your **entrepreneurial** **curiosity** and **learning spirit **into a career of **purpose**, **personal growth**, and **leadership.**
- Be part of the best-in-class Medical Affairs Team and stay at the centre of innovation and excellence in execution.

Our Medical Affairs team advances patient care by engaging in scientific exchange with external medical experts and industry leaders, ensuring our products' scientific value is understood. We connect, communicate, and train internal employees to thoroughly understand the science behind the medicine and review further unmet medical needs to support collaboration to differentiate our portfolio further.

As the Medical Advisor, you will be responsible for developing and implementing the medical strategy for specific therapeutic areas. You will provide medical and strategic support to internal stakeholders, including brand strategy development, training, review of promotional materials, advice on regulatory and patient access submissions, clinical trial feasibilities, etc. You will build a relationship with scientific leaders by engaging in balanced scientific exchanges and sharing these insights with the teams within the organisation.

**What will you do**:

- You will be the scientific expert who engages in non-promotional scientific exchange with Scientific Leaders or Key Decision Makers.
- You will provide insights internally on scientific gaps, ideas and other topics gathered from scientific exchange to inform Scientific Response Documents, Investigator Study Program, Local Data Generation proposals, clinical trial programs, development programs and company therapeutic area strategy.
- You will give strategic and medical support to internal stakeholders about product-related issues. Prepares Medical Affairs Plans (MAPs); advise on regulatory and market access submissions; leads Code of Conduct matters; facilitates investigator-initiated studies; supports clinical trial division.
- You will develop and execute Field Medical Engagement Plans within the scope of local and global policies, local rules, and regulations that are aligned with the Field Medical SOP.
- You will support cross-functional activities, including training, promotional review, scientific leader management, and advisory boards.
- You will ensure various engagement metrics (both quantitative and qualitative) are achieved. Perform all company business by policies, procedures and country regulations

As the Medical Advisor you will ensure that you are fully versed in the therapeutic area and up-to-date on:

- All significant studies, both ongoing and completed;
- Product information on the company's relevant therapies;
- Clinical data and relevant pipeline data to provide the most accurate data to SLs, KDMs, and the healthcare community, in a balanced way to improve patient care.

**Additional responsibilities**:

- Organisation of Medical Education Events. Management of MSLs, Mentor new team members and assist the manager with onboarding activities and ongoing peer-to-peer coaching.
- You will provide demonstratable leadership within the Medical Affairs Team
- Responsible for the therapeutic area budget
- Manage the cost of interstate/international travel within the company's travel policy
- Complete all CRM data and insight inputs promptly.

**What should you have**:

- You have a Medical degree, Ph.D. in health sciences, or a pharmacy degree (with two years of industry experience).
- Have demonstrated sustained leadership behaviors and have clear and concise communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work in cross-functional teams.
- You are analytical and have a strong understanding of research methodology. You can learn and convey medical/scientific information to healthcare professionals and decision-makers.
- You have excellent knowledge of Australian pharmaceutical industry guidelines, regulatory and reimbursement frameworks, and clinical research guidelines.
- Willing to travel (up to 50% of the time)

**Who we are**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for**

In a world of rapid innovation, we seek brave Inventors who want to make an Impact in all aspects of our business, enabling breakthroughs that will affect generations to come. We encourage you to bring your disruptive thinking, collaborative spirit and diverse perspective to our organization.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people to