Regional Director, Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs

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We foster an inclusive culture and are looking for diverse, talented people to join Alcon and we are looking for a Regional Director, Pharma Medical Affairs, who will be responsible for all field-based medical affairs activities across the entire Pharma portfolio. This role reports to the Head, Americas Medical Affairs. Our Medical Affairs function serves as a valued strategic partner with Clinical, Commercial, Regulatory, and Market Access to support patients' needs.

Job Description

The Regional Director, Pharma Medical Affairs is responsible for significant business impact activities including continued collection of clinical data to support the entire product portfolio, high scientific presence at major customer-facing congresses, medical education activities, insights generation and scientific support of all key customers across the region. In addition, the role is responsible for effective customer-facing communication and dissemination of scientific materials across the entire region.

Further, the role is directly responsible for business performance elements of the regional executive leadership team such as share of voice, clinical evidence generation and dissemination. The role is also a member of the region's medical leadership team as the Pharma Medical Affairs representative. This individual serves as field coach and lead to achieve results and Alcon’s key performance indicators, while maintaining an enterprise mindset, strategic agility and business acumen, with the highest integrity. The role is adept at managing internal and external cross functional collaboration and requires executive presence.

This person will demonstrate value for the business and customers via hiring, coaching, developing, and leading the MSL team aligned to the KPIs around: (1) Data Generation (2) Data Dissemination/Scientific Exchange (3) Insights Generation (4) Internal Collaboration.

Duties are listed in order of greatest importance.  Other responsibilities may be assigned. 

Essential Functions:

• Lead and manage a team of Pharma medical science liaisons (MSL's)

• Maintain In-depth functional clinical knowledge of the entire Alcon Pharma portfolio

• Develop and execute complex key opinion leader (KOL) mapping, strategy and execution plan for region

• Conduct robust payer scientific exchange with US payers to enable medical access

• Data Generation: Coordinating and overseeing investigator initiated research and group studies

• Quality of Medical Affairs project execution and cross-functional coordination

• Data Dissemination: Lead Alcon's Pharma share of voice and podium presence at key scientific meetings across the region

• Lead medical intelligence across multiple congresses and scientific meetings

• Ensure close alignment between Pharma franchise and regional business priorities in context of scientific customer interactions

• Insights Generation: Lead customer-generated clinical data/insights gathering and customer research support activities

• Lead and train MSLs for medical advisory boards, executive presentations and clinical data certifications

• Responsible for strategic objectives and medium term planning for the Pharma MSL team

• Internal and/or external influencing of key stakeholders to achieve scientific objectives aligned with business objectives

• Apply negotiation and persuasion skills towards interactions with research sites to ensure timely completion of agreed milestones

• Planning, and executing clinical trials/research and data collection activities

• Contributing to implementation of clinical protocols and facilitating quality and completion of final reports

• Recruiting clinical investigators and negotiating study design and costs

• Directing human clinical trials, phases III and IV, for company products under development

• Participating in adverse event reporting and safety responsibilities monitoring

• Monitoring adherence to protocols and determining study completion

• Serving as medical consultant to marketing, access, HEOR, commercial or research project teams  

• Analyzing and reporting aggregate metrics, insights and KPIs

• Quality and quantity of customer-based clinical data generation and dissemination

• Development a