Associate Director, Medical Affairs

Job Description

• Join a Global Innovative Pharmaceutical Company

• Supportive and flexible team culture

• Great opportunity for Personal and Professional development
   

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.

Role overview:
Drive country-level medical strategy by serving as a product and disease-state expert, translating global medical goals into locally relevant tactics that improve patient outcomes and access. Build and engage a roster of Scientific Leaders and Key Decision Makers, consolidate actionable insights, and enable real‑world evidence, scientific communication, education, and supported research. Partner with clinical teams to identify trial investigators, adapt plans to business realities, and operate with strict ethics, compliance, and non‑promotional standards.
 

What will you do

• Being product and disease state experts to contribute to the development and execution of medical strategy through the Medical Affairs Plans.

• Defining and maintaining a roster of Scientific Leaders (SLs) and Key Decision Makers (KDMs) in their therapeutic area and interacting with identified SLs and healthcare administrators (KDMs) by exchanging balanced medical / scientific information.

• Consolidate actionable medical insights from the country on scientific gaps, ideas and other topics gathered from Scientific exchange to inform areas of interest, clinical trial programs, development programs and company TA strategy.

• Adapt the Global Medical Goals and Strategies into the country's context, to support/lead initiatives in local real-world data generation,  facilitate scientific communication, educational programs, and other tactics and solutions to improve patient outcomes and enhance access in the country.

• Alert investigators to company programs for Investigator Initiated Study Proposals and to the process for submitting investigator designed proposals for review and approval; encourage and facilitate research publication of  studies supported by the company, in strict compliance with global/local guidance.

• Work with GCTO to identify potential investigators for Phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trials.

• Support execution of and quickly adapt tactical plan to business realities in country.

• Act with ethics & integrity; provide non-promotional, balanced, reliable, and scientific information, follow strictly company standards and local regulations.

• Performing all company business in accordance with company policies and procedures and country regulations

What should you have:

• The Medical Advisor is responsible for ensuring that they are fully versed in the therapeutic area and up-to-date on: all major studies, both ongoing and completed; product information on company and other companies' relevant therapies; clinical data and relevant pipeline data to provide the most accurate data to SLs, KDMs and the healthcare community, in a balanced way, to improve patient care.

• Build trust with external scientific community via peer-to-peer scientific exchange, research and educational collaborations, interactions with scientific societies and health organizations, publications, or others.

• Providing on-label medical insights and training to internal colleagues, including information on competitor products, as well as disease states relevant to their therapeutic area.

• Develop and execute country medical educational programs and symposia.

• Lead country advisory boards and expert input forums to inform company strategy.

• Communicate both scientific and business needs credibly, appropriately, and effectively across a variety of internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

• Infuse country's scientific and healthcare environment perspective into Regional Medical Affairs Team.
   

  Who we are

  We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and 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

  Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today

Required Skills:

Adaptability, Adaptability, Administrative Policies, Business Integrity, Clinical Data, Clinical Marketing, Clinical Medicine, Clinical Trials, Corporate Strategy Development, Data Analysis, Ethics, Healthcare Education, Interpersonal Relationships, Leadership, Management Process, Medical Affairs, Medical Care, Medical Knowledge, Medical Marketing Strategy, Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs, Project Management, Regulatory Compliance, Scientific Communications, Scientific Leadership, Scientific Publications {+ 4 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Employee Status:

Regular

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Flexible Work Arrangements:

Not Applicable

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Job Posting End Date:

12/20/2025

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