Regional Medical Advisor

This position typically refers to any employee within the EPD  Medical  organization with  medical /scientific qualifications and training who provides scientific/ medical  support to EPD in a non-sales capacity, where the provision of such scientific/ medical  support includes significant contact with Abbott customers in the field. This definition is not intended to apply to those employees whose primary job function relates to the monitoring or management of  clinical  studies.

Reporting into the Senior Manager RMA / Head RMA this position participates in the initiation, oversight and follow-up of assigned  clinical  studies and  medical  projects initiated within the EPD  Medical  Organization, ensuring that activities are carried out in accordance with relevant processes and procedures. The RMA interfaces with other key members of the EPD  Medical  Organization - for example,  Medical  Managers,  Clinical Research  Managers and  Medical  Advisors - relevant to the  therapeutic  area for which the RMA has responsibility. The RMA assists relationships and advances the scientific credibility of the Company with established and emerging  Regional /National Opinion leaders, responds to requests for scientific and  medical information , and provides key scientific information updates to  Regional  and National Opinion leaders, as appropriate. The RMA develops, and maintains, key scientific knowledge that will enable credible dissemination of scientific information and informed scientific dialogue with physicians and opinion leaders, and the development of professional working relationships.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure that all activities and interactions are conducted with due regard to all applicable local, global and national laws, regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, Company policies and accepted standards of best practice.

• Provide scientific and  technical support  for, and help maintain professional and credible relationships with, key opinion leaders and academic centers to ensure access to current  medical  and scientific information on the products and areas of  therapeutic  interest.

• Ideate, design, develop and deliver  innovative  and engaging high  science  activities for Physicians and Key Opinion Leaders, to help drive  Therapy  Shaping in the area the RMA is assigned to, in collaboration with the  Medical Affairs  & the Commercial team.

• Assist in the initiation, oversight and follow up of assigned  clinical  studies and  medical  projects initiated within the relevant  therapeutic  area for which the RMA carries responsibility (e.g. post  marketing clinical  activities such as registry/database projects,  epidemiological  surveys, post-authorization studies (phase IV), IIS projects, etc.): all activities to comply with applicable  local laws , guidelines, codes of practice, SOPs, and , I& D * SOPs.

• Deliver high  science , unbiased and accurate scientific presentations to physicians, individually or in groups (meetings,  clinical  sessions, etc.), when requested.

• Participate in the selection process to identify appropriately qualified physicians the Company would wish to engage in  collaborative  efforts – such as potential  research  collaborations, or lecture/meeting support ( Round Tables , Congresses, Symposia, etc.); and to ensure a high level of scientific or educational integrity in these  collaborative  efforts.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

•  Therapeutic  Area Expertise

• Management Skills

•  Communication Skills

• Compliance &  Process Improvement  Skills

• Problem/Conflict Solving Ability

• Priority Setting

• Relationship Building

KEY INTERFACES:

• EPD  medical  personnel:  Clinical Research  Managers,  Clinical  Operations Managers,  Medical  Advisors;  Medical Information  team / specialists; EPD Pharmacovigilance / drug safety personnel

•  Marketing  department across  therapeutic  area

• Sales organization of the geographic area of responsibility.

• Administrative personnel of the  Medical  Department and of the Business Unit.

• Healthcare personnel (including; physicians, nurses, pharmacists).

• Patients (through Patient Awareness Programs)

• Participating  Research  Investigators

• Key Opinion leaders

• Institutions and Scientific or  Medical  Societies