Key responsibilities:                                            

• Ensure medical enquiries are responded to in a high quality, timely manner, and in accordance with applicable standards; establish standard response documents as appropriate, for frequently asked questions.
• Provide medical/scientific input into the development and execution of clinical trial or clinical research related activities, including initiation and oversight of clinical studies / clinical research within the respective therapeutic area.
• Support country strategy for Non-Interventional Studies/Investigator Initiated Trial activities.
• Coordinate review and approval of medical materials and locally developed promotional materials; ensure medical materials provided from global or region for stakeholder engagement and events are tailored to local needs, and reviewed/approved per local/P3 guidelines.
• Ensure medical insights are provided to cross functional groups, including, but not restricted to: Pharmacovigilance, Regulatory affairs, Market Access, QA, Commercial teams, Brand team and others.
• Responsible for risk identification and assessment, mitigation planning as well as implementation and monitoring of appropriate internal controls within the area of responsibilities.
• Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)

Essential Requirements:

• Experience with the leadership of a cross-functional team
• Background in the pharmaceuticals industry or correlated markets
• Previous experience in medical roles such as Medical Lead, Medical Manager, MSL, coordinator 
• Proven ability to secure integrity and compliance of local business initiatives, regulations and guidelines.
• Strong knowledge of the Brazilian Healthcare ecosystem, processes and key stakeholders;
• Well-developed understanding of country and pharmaceutical industry regulatory, audit and SOPs environment;
• Business Intelligence knowledge: forecast elaboration
• Advanced English

Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: http://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: Competitive salary, annual bonus, life insurance, home office policy (home office 2x a week), retirement and wellbeing plans, flexible working arrangements, birthday day-off, parental leave, subsidized dining facilities, health insurance, employee recognition platform, Gympass, employee resource groups and virtual self-development tools.
If you want to learn more about our benefits, you can access the Novartis Life Handbook: http://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.

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Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you.