Associate Medical Director

As part of the development of a senior executive team in key European markets the **Associate Medical Director** is a newly created position within the C&C Pharma division, reporting to Maurice Leonard, Medical Director, Europe.

This role will be part of a pan-European medical affairs team and manage key strategic and operational initiatives mainly in the UK, one of Uniphar’s key markets.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to establishing the organisation from the beginning and to play a key role, as part of the European Team, in the development of the C&C Pharma division. This role demands an ability to work strategically and operationally in equal measures and to possess an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit and be able to cope with ambiguity.

**Culture at Uniphar**

We pride ourselves in being truly entrepreneurial, innovative, collaborative, with a strong problem-solving ethos. We have built working relationships which span decades with many of the world’s largest pharma and medtech companies. We believe that this is because we know how to build a relationship of trust with our partners - we put our customers and their patients at the heart of what we do and treat them with integrity and respect. Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people. As we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This rich diversity fuels our business and enriches our culture.

The Associate Medical Director is responsible for the scientific integrity of ‘clinical assets and the translation of scientific information into business concepts whether for UNIPHAR or a client. The role collaborates with the medical community and develops advocacy for drug products and the individual will be responsible for:

- engaging with specified KOLs/external clinical and scientific experts, institutions, and organisations delivering a non-promotional scientific information exchange.
- supporting data and insight generation to provide patient-centric solutions.

The Associate Medical Director will also work closely with colleagues in relevant therapy areas and organisations to influence the medical strategies, plans and tactics aligned to brand strategy and to ensure that they reflect patients’ needs.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Guide the development of medical strategic plans and tactics to ensure they reflect the needs of the local market(s) aligned to the product brand & regional strategy.
- Collaborating with key internal stakeholders, in a local and regional market context, to direct the development of strategic initiatives and the delivery of operational plans supporting dossier submissions, product launches and commercial rollouts.
- Guide the development of data generation plans for relevant assets and their implementation, including medical assessment of health economic outcome research projects, in vitro and in vivo research on a local level and for relevant Investigator initiated studies (IIS).
- Identify scientific gaps in brands, develop scientific projects, develop, and execute publication plan to advance brand objectives.
- Deliver medical knowledge to support drug development, registration, and commercialisation.
- Work closely with Product Access in the strategic planning, implementation and oversight of early access and named patient programmes in local markets.
- Supply expert product and therapeutic area medical expertise and relevant scientific information in response to clients, external HCPs and internal partners.
- Implement a KOL engagement and identification strategy across therapeutic areas.
- Development of customer advocacy to support client business objectives and insight gathering to inform asset brand strategies.
- Development of patient advocacy to support business objectives and insight gathering to inform patient needs.
- Supports the development of symposia and continuing medical education initiatives.
- Support clinical study phases including feasibility, site mapping, identification and participation as well as provide support for study site issues.
- Works with the Medical Director to support Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance function/department to establish program/product regulatory strategies that best support product medical and commercial objectives ensuring the team’s compliance with the applicable ethical and regulatory standards required by health authorities governing the regulation of pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices.
- Train commercial and medical colleagues on scientific data.
- Supervise, mentor and develop staff.

**Qualifications Required**
- Life Sciences Graduate, educated to MSc, PhD, PharmD or MD level.
- Knowledge of local Health Technology Assessment Procedures.
- Experience in HEOR/Evidence Generation is an important asset.
- Clinical trials/research experience is a strong asset.
- Fluency in English, written and spoken. French, German, Italian or Spanish where required.
- Good oral presentations skills, writin