Associate Manager / Medical Advisor, Medical Affairs, Consumer Health

YOUR TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Ensure a strong execution against the medical strategy and support for consumer health brands
• Support the brand growth by ensuring endorsement and recommendation by relevant KOLs (e.g. nutritionals, doctors, co- medicals, pharmacists etc)
• Coordinate with brand team and all necessary internal and external stakeholders, manage sensitive KOL relationships
  • Responsible for scientific and medical communication plans including material development, publications, MSL’s, etc. Develops and guides local Thought Leader (TL) management strategy
    • Develop overall medical strategy for assigned brands to support the commercial brand strategy, based on strong insights and understanding of the healthcare professionals (doctors, co-medicals, pharmacists) in collaboration with the brand management team
    • Lead Medical claim development & substantiation
    • Identify opportunities and, with alignment, generate new medical claim angles based on scientific literature in line with brand strategy for existing products and new product concepts during pre-development stages
    • Promotional material co-development (with marketing) of medical claims and substantiation
    • Lead to establish Japan medical claim pack for all CH products in collaboration with marketing and global counterpart
    • Competitor intelligence related to medical claims and substantiation - monitor and prepare accordingly
  • Continuously screen and digest new literature & proactively share new data with brand teams
  • Actively engage and participate in industry bodies related to medical subcommittees and topics
  • Sales force support
    • Implement sales force training programs related to product science and medical-related content
    • Ongoing training of sales force (product, competitors, science - drills, exams etc.)
    • Support sales teams with higher level enquiries escalated from medical information
  • New Product Development Support
    • Propose formulation recommendations based on science and evidence (iterative process together with CMC, marketing regulatory)
    • Seek formulation input & advice from KOLs
    • Provide medical view on product concepts in context of competitor medical attributes, claims, positioning, use etc.
    • Evaluate new product development ideas in a clinical and medical context and provide guidance on feasibility. Conduct formulation reviews and RDI audits products containing multivitamins
    • FAQ development
  • Support training of commercial team members on governance requirements
  • Engage with industry bodies and other external stakeholders to keep abreast of latest industry changes and ensure Bayer has a voice within relevant associations
  • Review promotional materials taking a solution-oriented approach

WHO YOU ARE:

• Masters degree (Preferred) OR Bachelor degree in medical/pharmaceutical/biological/life science or equivalent
• Minimum 5-8 years work experience in a pharmaceutical company with preferrable experience in the consumer health industry in a R&D and Medical Affairs role
• Scientific and medical expertise in consumer health/OTC or Pharma medicine
• Strategic thinking, result driven, Proactive with problem solving mindset
• Ability to work well with cross-functional teams
• Expertise in HCP facing/engagement could be prioritized
• Preferably a Registered pharmacist
• Native level Japanese & a good command of written and spoken English  (TOEIC 730 or above is preferred) 

WHAT BAYER CAN OFFER YOU:　

• We offer a competitive a salary package consisting of an annual basic salary and Short-Term Incentive (STI) bonus and top performance award and so on, tailored to your role at Bayer
• We provide various special paid day-offs on top of given annual paid vacation days. Also, we promote work-life balance by offering employees flexible working hours and home-office arrangements depending on your job nature in alignment with your manager
• We support your professional growth by providing learning and development opportunities through training programs, regular feedback and project participations
• At Bayer, our employees are welcomed, supported, and encouraged to reach their full potential. We also embrace and respect diversity by providing an inclusive and fair work environment for all employees
• We provide various attractive corporate benefit programs for all of our valuable employees such as DC pension plan, health and medical support by Bayer Health Insurance Association, Benefit Club membership, and life insurance