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Remote Medical Affairs Consultant I (Medical Information Specialist)

Foster City, CA 94404

Posted: 09/10/2024 Employment Type: Contract Job Category: Medical Affairs Job Number: 614305 Is job remote?: Yes Country: United States

Job Description


The Medical Information Specialist contractor candidate will contribute to the day-to-day activities of the ex-China global Medical Information function. This is an individual contributor role with regional responsibilities to North America in addition to ongoing global duties, with flexibility to meet changing business needs. As a medical information product specialist, perform the following duties for assigned molecules:
  • Monitor the medical literature and conference abstracts for new reports on the product and their utility in medical information assets
  • Manage the standard response database and other medical information assets for the product using customer insights expertise to identify, develop, and update materials appropriately
  • Collaborate with global medical information stakeholders to ensure maximal global utility of all medical information assets
  • Perform routine quality assurance reviews of contact center responses on the product
  • Provide product, disease state, and other clinical training to the contact center
  • Provide internal product and clinical training as needed
  • Communicate insights and trends from medical information questions to internal stakeholders
  • Manage the clinical/medical aspects of any needed interdisciplinary reviews for new or updated product medical information materials
  • Serve on cross-functional product review committees (eg, promotional and medical review)
  • Participate on additional product-specific core teams and initiatives
  • Apply legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements to all Medical Affairs activities

In collaboration with other medical information personnel, provide cross-product support as follows:
  • Respond to escalated medical information questions from global and local contact center(s), business partners, and internal Medical Affairs customers
  • Create and update standard response letters and other medical information assets for global and local use
  • Peer review standard response letters and other medical information assets
  • Staff medical information exhibit booths at professional society meetings
  • Provide training on medical information services to internal teams (sales, others)
  • Ensure the quality and currency of medical information SOPs and work instructions
  • Participate in Medical Information departmental initiatives
Requirements:
PharmD required (MD a plus). Drug information or oncology residency training strongly preferred.
Computer Skills:  Expert use of secondary literature databases (Medline, Embase), reference management software (EndNote), Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook applications

Other Qualifications:   
  • Excellent reading comprehension, analytical skills, medical writing skills, and verbal skills
  • 2-5 years of industry medical information experience
  • Clinical practice and patient care experience strongly preferred, ideally in oncology/hematology
  • Fluency in English required. 
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