Associate Director

Your opportunity to join a multi-award-winning leading biopharmaceutical company and be part of the best-in-class Medical Affairs team
- Bring your **entrepreneurial** **curiosity** and **learning spirit **into a career of **purpose** and **personal growth**
- ** Engage** with **key stakeholders** and commercial** leaders**, providing critical insights to help shape the **best business outcome**, aligned with overall business objectives and in line with operational requirements

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

The Regional Associate Director Medical Affairs (RADMA) is responsible for driving execution of scientific & medical affairs plans for their assigned Therapy Areas (TA) in the countries of their assigned region. They will work with the RDMA to support regional cross-functional teams, including regional Commercial, Center of Real-World Evidence (CORE), Policy and Market Access. They engage with their network of scientific leaders in their region. This is a regionally based position (i.e. residing in one of the affiliates of the region or regional hub).

**Responsibilities and Primary Activities**:

- Guides country MRL staff to execute the annual scientific & medical plan for Head and Neck and Melanoma cancers
- Supports the Regional Medical Affairs Team to ensure execution of agreed medical tactics and leverage best practices
- Supports the RDMA in executing regional medical affair team meetings (RMAT)
- Ensures scientific exchange is aligned with the global scientific communications platform
- With Direction from the RDMA, partners with regional Commercial, regional Center of Real-World Evidence (CORE), regional Policy and regional Market Access to drive development and execution of region plans, focusing on alliance portfolio of Head and Neck/Melanoma Cancer therapeutic areas
- Consolidates actionable medical insights from countries in their region
- Engages with a network of scientific leaders and other key stakeholders (therapeutic guideline committees, payers, public groups, government officials, medical societies) from their region
- Supports, as regional TA expert, affiliates staff in engagement with their national scientific leaders
- Organizes regional expert input events to answer company’s questions regarding how to implement new indications, advisory boards, and expert input forums
- Organizes regional symposia and educational meetings
- Supports countries with the development of local data generation study concepts and protocols
- Supports the RDMA in identifying and communicating regional content and training requirements, and planning/executing regional data generation (RDG) studies
- Manages regional programs (patient support, educational or risk management) to support appropriate and safe utilization of medicines

**Required Qualifications, Skills & Experience**:

- MD, PhD or PharmD and recognized medical expertise
- Experience in country / region Medical Affairs
- Strong prioritization and decision-making skills
- Able to effectively collaborate with partners across divisions in a matrix environment
- Excellent interpersonal, analytical, communication (written as well as oral) skills, in addition to results-oriented project management skills

**_ Preferred:_**
- MD, PhD or PharmD and recognized medical expertise
- 4+ years pharmaceutical (or related) industry experience in the affiliate arena

Connection with scientific leadership and other key stakeholders (payers, public groups, government officials, medical professional organizations) in the assigned therapeutic area

**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 together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage