Medical Advisor (m/w/d)

Role and Responsibilities

Providing scientific consultation for the company’s products in the local organisation, with a focus on growth brands:

• Respond to medical-scientific requests/enquiries from healthcare professionals (as required) and communicate medical-scientific information to customers, authorities, and local company organisations.
• Work closely with the local marketing department and/or Regional Brand Leads
• Support product positioning through scientific publications, local/regional and global scientific events.
• Review and approve medical/scientific texts and specialised product and disease area information (promotional and non-promotional material).
• Engage healthcare professionals for speaker events at national, regional and international scientific conferences and events.
• Stay updated on scientific trends and knowledge through literature reviews, scientific congresses, conferences, and internal therapeutic area trainings, through close collaboration with global medical teams and self-initiated and conducted literature searches.

Broadening of medical knowledge:

• Provide scientific advice and education on a peer-to-peer level to healthcare professionals (HCPs), KEEs, and other relevant stakeholders.
• Analyse potential evidence gaps and drive evidence generation activities, identify actionable Medical insights and execute required initiatives.
• Uphold ethical business practices to preserve and develop the company’s reputation and image.
• Navigate discussions on off-label topics with a high degree of critical thinking and adherence to ethical standards, local codes and company guidance (Standard Operating Procedures – SOPs).
• Collaborate closely with the sales department and marketing to transmit, maintain, and continuously broaden medical knowledge within the sales force team via regular scientific exchanges and trainings.
• Monitor medical trainings through knowledge tests, role plays and a continuous cross-functional exchange that is documented on the local SharePoint drive.

Close cooperation with the Country Medical Director:

• Contribute to aligning medical goals of growth brands within the local organisation.
• Collaborate with the local marketing team and global medical colleagues to brainstorm and explore medical strategy options.
• Identify and address specific local medical challenges, through e.g. the collection, interpretation/translation, collation and summary of in-market insights from healthcare professionals and its communication and alignment with local and regional medical teams.
• Ensure effective communication and implementation of medical brand positioning and patient-centric approaches within the medical network and at the local level.

What you’ll bring

• Previous experience in the role of Medical Advisor or Medical Manager and sound knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in substitution area (and/or mental health and/or pain medication) is essential; further disease area expertise is ideal (e.g., infectious diseases).
• Proven experience and knowledge of the German market and EfPIA industry codes of conduct
• Ideally degree-qualified in natural sciences or comparable education—preferably in medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, pharmaceutical sciences, or biology.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, networking, relationship cultivation, open and agile mindset
• High willingness to travel
• Solid presentation development and presentation skills
• Ability to understand and interpret scientific data, translate and summarise scientific papers to meet the needs of the target audience

Work on the basis of integrity and trust

• Strong business acumen with great attention to detail
• Business fluent in both English and German
• Be a digital native

We offer

• Benefits package
• Opportunities for learning & development through our varied programme
• Collaborative, inclusive work environment