Senior Specialist, GEMS Consulting & Medical Education

Job Description

Role Summary

• The Senior Specialist, Global Professional Engagement is a member of the GEMS Consulting & Medical Education team within, V&I Global Medical and Value Capabilities (GMVC). This function exists within the broader V&I Global Medical & Scientific Affairs (GMSA), which is part of Our Company Research Laboratories (RL).

• The Senior Specialist, Global Professional Engagement serves as a key professional interface with global and regional internal stakeholders, scientific leaders, healthcare professionals, and scientific/medical societies. The individual in this critical role must be detail oriented to ensure the successful end-to-end planning and execution of global and US advisory boards, and ex-US global medical education programs. This role requires a person with strategic insight and the ability to develop a comprehensive assessment, which includes reviewing and understanding an action memo documenting the legitimate business need for each program. In collaboration with business and strategy teams, the Sr. Specialist develops an annual plan of programs that considers the status of product life cycles, as well as the business goals of V&I GMSA and RL.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

Expert Input

• Manages the effective organization and execution of end- to-end therapeutic focused expert input activities (advisory boards, Group Input Meetings (GIM), or Scientific Input Engagements (SIE)) that align with the strategic plan, scientific platform, and market needs.

• Reviews all action memos for expert input activities for global & US programs and is accountable for ensuring the memos have clearly articulated the business need.

• Leads the planning and execution of input meetings, which includes partnering with V&I GMSA or other stakeholders to ensure appropriate development of agendas and discussion guides, selection of appropriate scientific leaders, compliant execution of each program, and finalizing the executive summary to capture the most relevant scientific input as it relates to each program’s objectives.

• Ensures that all final program documentation is in line with policies and procedures and archived in the appropriate online documentation storage repository.

Medical Education

• Manages the effective organization and execution of end-to-end global (ex-US) medical education programs that are in alignment with the strategic plan, scientific platform, and market needs.

• Supports the development of critical program deliverables, such as contract management of selected scientific leaders, program agendas in compliance with regulatory governance and country guidance, educational content presentations, and other key documents developed in the planning and execution of a robust and compliant program.

• Ensures program plan is communicated in a timely manner to Our Company subsidiaries.

Other

• Ensures that all global (ex-US) expert input programs and medical education programs adhere to Our Company and country policies and standards.

• Ensures that contracts for US and Global experts reflect appropriate terms and conditions that are consistent with country-specific guidance and Fair Market Value (FMV) guidelines.

• Deeply understands internal and external governing policies and regulations in implementing medical education across different geographies.

• Works effectively across multiple markets globally to ensure that franchise strategic medical business objectives are understood and effectively accomplished through selection/execution of program type and through effective relationships with key ex-US medical societies.

• Maintains high level of scientific and market knowledge through ongoing participation at relevant internal and external forums.

• Oversees and reconciles all budgetary and financial transactions for each activity.

Qualifications, Skills, & Experience

Minimum

• Bachelor’s degree in science, business, or healthcare with 5+ years of experience in the healthcare industry or Master's degree with 3+ years of experience.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating and leading cross-functional teams to achieve a measurable objective.

• Demonstrated ability to establish relationships with key external stakeholders.

• Experience applying principles to solve complex problems and find innovative solutions to manage daily workload.

• Demonstrated attention to compliance and legal expectations.

• Strong project management skills.

• Excellent organization and time management skills.

<