Medical Manager
Role Overview
The Medical Manager supports the design, implementation, and execution of Medical Affairs plans for an assigned therapy area.
The role is customer-facing and provides scientific information while supporting clinical studies, educational dialogue, and stakeholder engagement.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
The Medical Manager supports the design, implementation, and execution of Medical Affairs plans for an assigned therapy area.
The role is customer-facing and provides scientific information while supporting clinical studies, educational dialogue, and stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Respond to medical enquiries accurately, compliantly, and in a timely manner, including developing standard response documents when needed.
- Provide medical and scientific input into clinical trial and research activities, including study initiation and oversight within the therapy area.
- Support local evidence-generation activities, including non-interventional studies and investigator-initiated trials.
- Build scientific partnerships by engaging medical experts, supporting publications, and contributing to data-generation initiatives.
- Review and approve medical and promotional materials in line with local and global compliance requirements.
- Share actionable medical insights with Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory, Market Access, Quality, and Commercial teams.
- The role involves 50% external stakeholder engagement and 50% office-based responsibilities.
Essential Requirements
- Degree in MD, PharmD, or PhD.
- Minimum of 2 years of Medical Affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
- Neuroscience experience is a plus.
- Ability to build credible relationships with medical experts and key decision-makers.
- Strong understanding of clinical research, evidence generation, and the evolving therapeutic landscape.
- Experience translating scientific insights into meaningful cross-functional action.
- Confidence using digital tools and data to support stakeholder engagement, insight gathering, and decision-making.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and collaboration skills in a matrix environment.
- Fluency in both Arabic and English.
Company
Novartis describes its culture as collaborative, supportive, and focused on improving outcomes for patients and their families.
Work Arrangement
- The role combines external stakeholder engagement with office-based responsibilities.
Source Details
Division: International.
Business unit: Development.
Functional area: Research and Development.
Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Job type: Full time.
Employment type: Regular.
Shift work: No.
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