Head of Medical, CEE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Oversee the CEE+ Medical Affairs strategy across affiliates, platform resources, and partner markets.

• Take personal responsibility for the regional scientific agenda pertaining to a specific asset.

• Convert Sobi's strategy into scientific communication, KOL engagement, evidence generation, and field execution.

• Lead the development, resourcing, execution, and follow-up of CEE+ Medical Affairs plans while supporting affiliate LMIP plans.

• Propel the designated asset and business development initiatives.

• Provide matrix medical leadership to CEE+ affiliates and partner markets.

• Head the CEE+ Medical Leadership Team and assist in the CEERJ Medical Agenda.

• Facilitate local planning, ensure execution quality, prioritize tasks, and prepare for launches.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the CEE+ medical platform team.

• Establish roles, responsibilities, objectives, KPIs, performance expectations, and development plans.

• Guarantee high-quality scientific engagement, impactful field execution, structured insight generation, evidence-based activities, and compliant medical communication.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including commercial, PACE, RDMA, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, quality, geo-expansion, portfolio management, finance, HR, and partner organizations.

• Represent CEE+ Medical Affairs in regional, global, and local forums as well as strategic projects.

• Support the line manager in grant committee tasks, leadership-team workflows, ISS, MAP approvals, and Veeva activities.

• Ensure governance and compliance across medical plans, deliverables, materials, external interactions, field engagements, partner-market activities, advisory boards, medical education, and cross-functional initiatives.

⛳️ Requirements

• A university degree in a medical-science background or a related field.

• Preference for medical, clinical, or research experience in the relevant disease area.

• Proven experience in pre-launch and launch activities, both at country and international levels, with increasing responsibilities.

• Strong history of engagement with KOLs at both local and international levels.

• Understanding of the health system and healthcare decision-making processes, including the regulatory, safety, legal, and compliance frameworks.

• Experience managing multi-stakeholder projects and leadership roles, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery.

• Demonstrated matrix leadership, influencing affiliates, general managers, and global teams without formal authority.

• Extensive people leadership experience, including recruitment, management, and development of a medical team with a performance plan.

• Personal accountability and ownership, with a continuous focus on performance and operational excellence.

• Ability to discuss scientific ideas with KOLs and HCPs and present scientific data to both small and large audiences.

• Capability to quickly develop therapeutic area expertise for the assigned asset and oversee other disease areas through the team.

• Experience in evidence generation, publications, and scientific dissemination.

• Experience in reimbursed patient access projects is highly desirable.

• Ability to collaborate in virtual and multi-disciplinary teams.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Above-average computer proficiency.

• Fluent in written and spoken English.

• Proficiency in other CEE languages is advantageous.

• Willingness to travel regionally and internationally, approximately 30% of working time.

• Availability for external meetings, congresses, and internal meetings outside standard hours with prior notice.

• A valid driver's license may be required depending on the local role setup.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package.

• Support for the health and well-being of staff.

• Flexible home-based or hybrid work arrangements depending on the country, local employment setup, and business requirements.