Disease Area Specialist, Hematology

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The primary role of the Disease Area Specialist, Hematology is to engage in meaningful peer-to-peer scientific dialog with Thought Leaders (TLs) and priority Health Care professionals (HCPs) as defined by the Medical Plan. The Disease Area Specialist conducts critical activities that support advancing science, educating on evolving clinical practices, transforming science into patient care, and facilitating the development of new research collaborations (including IIT and RWE).

The role collaborates with colleagues on capturing medical insights and acts as a therapeutic area expert to cross-functional partners. Engagement with TLs should be aligned with medical strategies, and the role should provide insight back to home office to inform strategy.

This role is field based. It is anticipated that the employee will spend up to 30% of the time in the field interacting with external stakeholders, including investigators and clinical thought leaders while supporting internal stakeholders and maintaining a high level of therapeutic expertise.

Key Responsibilities

Medical Strategy Advisory

• Engaging in high-quality peer-to-peer scientific dialog with key thought leaders in hematology, oncology, and cell therapy (HOCT) portfolio, in current and future HOCT indications.
• Collaborates with TLs to identify and generate insights on evolving care paradigms to inform medical strategy.
• Collects meaningful medical insights and communicates to the medical and commercial organizations to support strategy development and business decisions.
• Develop, deliver, and lead the medical plan to support new and ongoing business development opportunities as they become known in applicable markets.
• Provide a strategic vision in shaping the therapeutic area, providing process solutions that improve and optimize work.
• Manage medical events and any other initiative impacting local medical teams.
• Plan, track & actively manage budgets.

Lead and manage (build, develop & retain talent) for disease area medical team

• Build and develop a diverse, high performing team by attracting and retaining the best medical talent, establishing and communicating high standards, establishing and implementing development plans, serving as role model in providing feedback and coaching.
• Proactively lead medical team and be accountable for driving performance and behaviours like:
  • Develop individual objectives/metrics.
  • Conduct annual and mid-term performance reviews with associated development plan for each team member.
  • Ensure appropriate translation of disease area and product medical education objectives and TL needs into specific FM quarterly activity plans.
  • Analyze performance measurement metrics of the medical team.
  • Join Medical Team on TL-visits for coaching.
• Work closely with appropriate local and international teams (WW/MM/IC) to develop and coordinate/support execution of training for medical team (disease and functional skills). Work closely with appropriate international FM team (WW/MM/IC) to maintain alignment across the region.
• Actively promote a culture of performance, innovation, constructive challenge, team spirit and accountability within the Medical Department based on ensuring the wellbeing of patients.

Evidence facilitation

• Facilitate scientific partnerships and research collaborations in collaboration with Global Drug Development (GDD).
• Provide recommendations and insights to the clinical development team on study feasibilities within the therapeutic area based on knowledge of the field and through direct contacts with potential investigators, as agreed with home office medical and GDO.
• Proactively lead and communicate BMS major evidence readouts to investigators partnering with GDD. Reactively discuss major evidence readouts with other thought-leaders.
• Liaise with large key accounts to understand clinical levers and barriers to patient access in the context of clinical trials.
• Support the implementation of medical affairs initiatives such as observational studies, registries, and publications.

Medical engagement:

• Ensure high value scientific exchange, increase value through prioritization, planning & execution of activities.
• Drive external TL/HCP focus and effectiveness: up to 30% time spent in field.
• Effectively collaborate and communicate with TLs to gain insights into the clinical landscape.
• Engage in scientific and clinical conversation to ensure the development of a product/disease area-focused medical plan that translates into effective launch and LCM activities.
• Responsible for conducting evidence read-outs with the most prominent institutions, e.g., Ph 3 top-line data.
• Engage with medical societies, patient advocacy groups (PAGs), and guideline discussions as appropriate.
• Engage account-level decision makers in selected AMCs to help identify barriers and solutions to improve patient care and outcomes.

Market Access & Regulatory Collaboration

• Suggest, lead, and support innovative medical activities to establish BMS reputation, its development program and facilitate registration and access to new drugs.
• Support relevant regulatory teams towards the registration of new molecules by providing medical support, scientific strategic data and helping create tailored medical documents such as NIT (therapeutic notes) for registration dossiers.
• Cooperate with market access teams to help accelerate registration of new drugs and facilitate reimbursement and pricing.
• Collaborate appropriately with cross-functional matrix team members and drive prioritization/inclusion of medical components for cross-functional account planning activities.
• Deliver and/or support training for internal or external stakeholders.

Compliance

• Cooperate and support the Compliance team. Identify compliance risk within market activities and work with compliance & BCF team to mitigate them.
• Establish and ensure the strict application of BMS SOPs and local guidelines for HCPs interactions as per BMS SOPs.
• Ensure non-promotional material development for BMS products is aligned with all internal and external regulations regarding compliant marketing.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Strategic Medical Affairs capabilities with +5 years of relevant experience.
• Advanced scientific or medical degree (PharmD, PhD, MD).
• Proven record of developing high impact peer-to-peer relationships and influence with high impact Thought Leaders.
• Strong Hematology experience required:
  • +2 years of therapeutic expertise in Oncology and/or Hematology and/or Cell Therapy - scientific or clinical area, patient treatment trends, clinical landscape.
  • Pharmaceutical industry, including compliance and regulatory guidelines.
  • Clinical trial design and process.
  • National and regional healthcare and access environment.
• Deep understanding of National Thought Leaders' environment and needs.
• People manager experience.
• Proficient in English.

Knowledge Desired

• Superior HOCT disease area knowledge and understanding scientific publications.
• In-depth knowledge of a scientific and/or clinical area.
• In-depth knowledge of relevant BMS products is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of clinical trial design and process.
• Knowledge of the National Healthcare System and the pharmaceutical industry.
• Knowledge of HEOR data and the ability to communicate value data.
• Understanding of the drug development process within the pharmaceutical industry and the regulatory and reimbursement system.
• Matrix management experience and building effective working relationships between Clinical, Medical, Regulatory, Marketing, Market Access, and other key internal and external stakeholders.
• Conducting complex negotiations within a pharmaceutical environment, both internally and externally.

Key competencies desired

Strategy & Operations

• Ability to work independently and act as a team player by developing strong rapport and working relationships with external and internal stakeholders.
• Understanding of environmental and industry trends and their impact on the business.
• Ability to build relationships and influence & drive organizational engagement at all levels.
• Highly effective written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strategic thinking & business oriented.
• Strong operational background (budget control, project management, financial capability).
• Innovation & continuous improvement.
• Strong Communication skills (meeting management, working across boundaries).

Scientific Agility

• Ability to engage in a peer-to-peer dialog about data in a fair and balanced way.
• Expert knowledge of clinical practice and evolving healthcare delivery models.
• Ability to understand and critically appraise scientific publications.
• Knowledge of clinical trial design and methodology, including Good Clinical Practices and ethical, governmental, and regulatory requirements.
• Understands treatment paradigms and can frame information in a convincing way that resonates with physicians.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to articulate scientific and clinical data in an easy-to-understand manner to help HCPs best serve their patients.
• Has a strong learning mindset and passion for science. Prioritizes staying current with the latest data.

Patient centricity

• Understands the patient journey and experience.
• Able to adopt a patient-focused mindset, making patients a top priority.
• Exhibits genuine care for patients.

Customer/commercial mindset

• Winning Mindset: results-oriented, positive, resilient attitude, able to quickly adapt in an ever-changing environment.
• Demonstrated ability to drive organizational performance.
• Experience identifying, engaging, and cultivating relationships with TLs.
• Demonstrated an ability to influence matrix organization and problem-solving mentality.

Teamwork/Enterprise mindset

• Strong matrix leadership (influencing, negotiation, strong internal network at local and regional level).
• Knowledge of the national healthcare and access environments.
• Deep knowledge and experience of RWE.
• Be a representative of BMS in all interactions with external stakeholders.
• Holds a high level of integrity and good judgment, in order to navigate the requirements of the role effectively and compliantly in accordance with BMS policies and procedures.

Travel Required

• Travel up to 30% required.

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