Medical Affairs Manager - Field based (Vaccine) - Hanoi
About this opportunity
Location: Hanoi, Vietnam
About the role
As a Medical Affairs Manager Field based, you will use your in-depth knowledge of GSK vaccines to serve as an expert interface between GSK Medical and the external healthcare community on medical topics. You will help ensure the safe and effective use of GSK vaccines through appropriate scientific dialogue, placing patients’ needs at the centre and building trust with healthcare professionals in line with GSK’s HCP engagement model.
Key responsibilities
Assist the Medical Lead in developing strategic medical input in collaboration with Commercial team for Brand/portfolio strategy, Clinical operations, Market research, Opinion Leader development, Conference organizations, overseas speaker's advice/contact and development of Continuing Medical Education Programs to ensure GSK prominence in the market.
To provide strong technical, medical information to GSK Vx's interaction with external experts and stake holders. To develop and reinforce the external scientific standing and credibility of GSK Vx among HCP and EE(s) by scientific engagement.
Identifies and engages the external community appropriately in robust scientific dialogue that generates insight and advances scientific and medical understanding. Ensures timely, professionally and appropriate scientific engagement events in strict adherence with Global Scientific Engagement Principles and Standards.
Development and implementation of assigned TA and products and other relevant training activities.
Keep up to date medical literature/information on assigned therapeutic areas, competitor products and related scientific data for communication to other Medical, Commercial and Regulatory personnel to ensure prompt dissemination and awareness of information to all concerned. To support marketing team to deliver scientific presentations where appropriate.
Ensure medical affairs support to local business in cases where medical rep have medical queries - with accompanied field visits and external presentations as appropriate in order to facilitate understanding and solve issues.
To review product prescribing information for regulatory submission. 8. Fulfill any additional task (individually based) if requested by Medical Lead
Why you?
Basic qualifications
Medical or Pharmacy university graduate.
Medical graduate with a relevant specialist post-graduate degree as area of specialisation.
Good understanding of Vietnam medical practice.
Working experience in the pharmaceutical industry, preferably in medical affairs or a similar medical function.
Key skills and competencies
Strong influence and impact skills.
Excellent interpersonal and networking capabilities.
Strong communication, presentation and training skills.
Proficiency in spoken and written English.
Strong analytical skills.
High level of ethics, integrity and commitment.
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Skills
Cross-Functional Leadership, Digital Fluency, Enterprise Thinking, High Impact Communication, Launch Excellence, Patient Journey
Why GSK?
Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.
GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.
People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and providing equal opportunities for all applicants. We embrace an agile working culture across our roles, so if flexibility is important to you please discuss opportunities with our hiring team. If you need any adjustments to the recruitment process to help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities, contact APACRecruitment.Adjustments@gsk.com . Please note this email is for adjustment requests only; for other enquiries please use our standard contact channels.
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 218 comparable Manager Medical Affairs roles across 70 biopharma companies.
Salary context
31 of 218 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
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Seniority mix
218 of 218 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
74 of 218 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
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How we calculate "similar"
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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.