Medical Advisor 

Location: Germany - Must be able to attend Frankfurt office 1-2 times per week and attend congresses on average once per month

Department: Medical Affairs

Job type: Full Time

Join us and make a difference when it matters most! 

At Mundipharma, we are proud of the work we do to bring innovative treatments to patients. We challenge ourselves constantly to deliver more for patients, healthcare professionals, our partners, and our employees. 

The Team

The Medical Advisor will join the Medical Affairs team at Mundipharma and play a vital part in substitution therapy and further products in our product portfolio with the main focus on the German market.

The primary purpose of this role is to provide scientific consultation for the company’s products within the local organisation, with a particular focus on growth brands. This involves contributing to the local medical strategy, aligning medical goals, and ensuring the implementation of medical brand positioning and patient-centric approaches. Additionally, the role entails broadening the required medical knowledge within the organisation according to business needs and priorities.

Role and Responsibilities

Providing scientific consultation for the company’s products in the local

organisation, with a focus on growth brands:

• Respond to medical-scientific requests/enquiries from healthcare professionals (as required) and communicate medical-scientific information to customers, authorities, and local company organisations.

• Work closely with the local marketing department and/or Regional Brand

• Leads to support product positioning through scientific publications, local/regional and global scientific events.

• Review and approve medical/scientific texts and specialised product and disease area information (promotional and non-promotional materials).

• Engage healthcare professionals for speaker events at national, regional and international scientific conferences and events

• Stay updated on scientific trends and knowledge through literature reviews, scientific congresses, conferences, and internal therapeutic area trainings, through close collaboration with global medical teams and self-initiated and conducted literature searches.

Broadening of medical knowledge:

• Provide scientific advice and education on a peer-to-peer level to healthcare professionals (HCPs), KEEs, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Analyse potential evidence gaps and drive evidence generation activities, identify actionable Medical insights and execute required initiatives.

• Uphold ethical business practices to preserve and develop the company’s reputation and image.

• Navigate discussions on off-label topics with a high degree of critical thinking and adherence to ethical standards, local codes and company guidance (Standard Operating Procedures – SOPs).

• Collaborate closely with the sales department and marketing to transmit, maintain, and continuously broaden medical knowledge within the sales force team via regular scientific exchanges and trainings.

• Monitor medical trainings through knowledge tests, role plays and a continuous cross-functional exchange that is documented on the local SharePoint drive.

Close cooperation with the Country Medical Director:

• Contribute to align medical goals of growth brands within the local organisation.

• Collaborate with the local marketing team and global medical colleagues to brainstorm and explore medical strategy options.

• Identify and address specific local medical challenges, through e.g. the collection, interpretation/translation, collation and summary of in-market insights from healthcare professionals and its communication and alignment with local and regional medical teams.

• Ensure effective communication and implementation of medical brand positioning and patient-centric approaches within the medical network and at the local level.
   

What you’ll bring

• Previous experience in the role of Medical Advisor or Medical Manager and sound knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry. 

• Experience in substitution area (and/or mental health and or pain medication) are essential, further disease area expertise is ideal (e.g. infectious diseases)

• Proven experience and knowledge of the German market and EfPIA industry codes of conduct 

• Ideally degree qualified in natural sciences or comparable education - Preferably in medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences or biology

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, networking, relationship cultivation, open and agile mindset

• High willingness to travel

• Solid presentation development and presentation skills

• Ability to understand and interpret scientific data, translate and summarise scientific papers to meet the needs of the target audience

• Work on the basis of integrity and trust

• Strong business acumen with great attention to detail

• Business fluent in both English and German

• Be a digital native

What we offer in return

• Benefits package

• Opportunities for learning & development through our varied programme 

• Collaborative, inclusive work environment

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive environment where people can thrive, grow and achieve their full potential is a priority. We believe this isn’t just the right thing, but also the smart thing to do. We are on a journey and will seek to move forward together through education and awareness to build a culture that welcomes and celebrates diversity and uniqueness. We will create a workplace environment where everyone can, every day, bring their authentic selves and is treated with dignity and respect. 

About Mundipharma

Mundipharma is a global healthcare company focussing on customers across Africa, Asia Pacific, Canada, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.  

Mundipharma is dedicated to bringing innovative treatments to patients in the areas of pain management, infectious disease as well as other severe and debilitating disease areas. Their guiding principles, centered around Integrity and Patient-Centricity, are at the heart of everything they do. For more information visit www.mundipharma.com.  

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