Global Medical Information Scientist, Associate Director (Oncology)
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Job Description
*** THIS IS A HYBRID ROLE. AN ONSITE PRESENCE IS REQUIRED***
The Global Medical Information (GMI) Scientists for Oncology, with their advanced scientific background (PharmD, PhD, or MS in Life Sciences), are resources within their therapeutic area for the global core functions of Medical Information (e.g., customizing medical information letters to respond to U.S. Health Care Provider (HCP) inquiries, handling of escalated complex global HCP inquiries, and insight generation/analysis), Medical Review of U.S. and HQ-created global Promotional Materials and Scientific Content, Medical Education and Training of internal stakeholders (e.g., U.S. Call Center, Field Sales), and Compendia and Pathways Submissions on our company's products and associated diseases. Our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic solutions, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.
Primary Responsibilities:
Has a deep understanding of therapeutic area, including product knowledge, disease state management, emerging therapies, and the competitive landscape. Apply developed depth and breadth of disease, product and process expertise, and help solve unique and complex problems/inquiries specific to the brands within and beyond areas of expertise, across team.
Medical Information (MI): Customize responses to US inquiries from healthcare providers in writing and/or verbally. Respond to complex escalated global inquiries. Generate insights from MI capabilities to inform strategic planning and identify gaps in data and educate on scientific exchange for appropriate stakeholders. Staff medical information booths at HQ-sponsored US and international congresses to verbally answer unsolicited inquiries from HCPs.
Scientific/Medical Review of US and Global Promotional and Non-Promotional Materials: Independently review and approve promotional materials from internal Human Health (HH) teams and external partners and non-promotional materials from the Global Scientific Content (GSC) team to ensure content, claims, and/or comparisons are relevant, scientifically and medically accurate, balanced, provide appropriate context, and are consistent with cited appropriate scientific literature, internal scientific information, and all applicable company policies, local regulations, and department SOPs.
Medical Education and Training: Create and develop medical/disease education materials. Create/adapt foundational materials to use in disease and product scientific lectures to train internal stakeholders, including Field Sales representatives, Our Company National Service Center (call center), country medical colleagues, and United States Medical Affairs (USMA) field-based employees. Participate in training of promotional review standards and process for internal stakeholders.
Compendia and Pathways Submissions: Engage and collaborate with subject matter experts and relevant stakeholders in the planning, review, approval, and submission processes for Compendia and Pathways for applicable therapeutic area.
Leadership and Mentoring: Lead product-related projects/initiatives that directly impact the franchise/brand strategy and objectives to meet external customer needs. Lead departmental initiatives that impact GMI process improvements, drive the solution of complex problems through identification of innovative solutions, and foster cross-functional collaborations. Serve as a go-to person within the core functions for colleagues across stakeholder departments. Mentor/empower entry-level colleagues to develop within their functional roles. Mentor/precept pharmacy/PhD students, fellows, and residents.
Fully comply with all company policies and applicable laws, regulations, and ethical standards, and make decisions within guidelines and policies which impact a range of stakeholder/customer, operational, and project activities.
Required Qualifications, Skills, & Experience:
Minimum Requirements:
Advanced Degree (PhD, PharmD, or equivalent) + minimum 2 years' experience in medical information and/or medical review of promotional materials.
MS in life sciences, nursing/medical field + minimum 3 years' experience in medical information and/or medical review of promotional materials
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