Medical Director

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

📋 Description

• Provide local medical expertise to support product assets throughout development, pre-marketing, launch, marketing support, and lifecycle management.

• Ensure safe and appropriate product usage, facilitate data generation and dissemination, interact with healthcare professionals, and maintain GCP compliance.

• Lead and directly supervise Medical Associates in Austria.

• Develop and execute medical strategies and plans that align with local, regional, and global strategies and business requirements.

• Build scientifically credible relationships with opinion leaders, healthcare providers, research collaborators, and key organizations.

• Organize and lead clinically relevant local medical meetings, advisory boards, scientific events, consultancy activities, and investigator meetings.

• Work collaboratively with commercial, market access, regulatory, quality, pharmacovigilance, clinical development, and cross-functional teams.

• Contribute to medical and scientific gap analyses, investigator-initiated studies, publication planning, data dissemination, and outreach to healthcare professionals.

• Create and review medical education and training materials for both internal and external stakeholders.

• Foster strategic partnerships with scientific and clinical experts, serving as the local point of contact for authorities, associations, cooperative groups, cancer institutions, and patient advocacy organizations.

• Design, implement, and oversee post-marketing studies and investigator-sponsored research, ensuring compliance with GCP and ethical standards.

• Support cross-regional Medical Affairs tactics and initiatives.

• Develop, monitor, execute, and report on goals and objectives.

• Assist in local Medical Affairs budget planning and management.

• Act as a medical and scientific resource for Marketing, Regulatory, Market Access, Pharmacovigilance, and Risk Management teams.

• Operate in compliance and enhance the team’s compliance capabilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• MD Physician / PhD.

• At least 5–10 years of experience and proven success in biotech or pharmaceutical companies.

• Previous experience managing a team of Medical Affairs associates.

• In-depth understanding of local healthcare delivery systems, including managed care and its effects on patient care, regional medical care, and the pharmaceutical sector.

• Ability to identify unmet medical, educational, and research needs at local and regional levels.

• Strong comprehension of disease states and familiarity with differential algorithms for treatment decisions.

• Clinical and industry experience, preferably in Haemato-Oncology.

• Capability to interpret key scientific data and translate findings into educational and research requirements.

• Understanding of research study design and execution, along with strategic implications.

• Flexibility to collaborate with colleagues in both virtual and regional environments.

• Experience in a local, regional, or multi-country setting is a plus.

• Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, organizational, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Proficiency in English and German is mandatory.

• Adherence to the highest ethical standards in corporate medical governance.

• Willingness to travel approximately 25%-50% for work.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment.

• Work-related travel opportunity (approximately 25%-50%).