Medical Manager

**Job Description**:
**Job Title**

**Medical Manager**

**About Abbott**

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

**Working at Abbott**

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:

- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

**The Opportunity**

There is a simple goal at the heart of our business - we want to help people to live their best lives through the power of good health by truly transforming the way people in emerging markets use medicines. We listen to the people in each country and use local insights to make good medicines better, using new technology and services.

Our product portfolios are localized and offer medicines and health solutions to help treat some of the most prevalent health conditions. We drive scale and market share by having breadth and depth in high-growth therapeutic areas - tailored to local needs and supported through innovations and new partnerships. This portfolio approach is fundamental to our success in providing efficiencies, focus, therapeutic expertise and deep stakeholder relationships.

Our business is uniquely positioned to provide improved medicines in emerging markets. Our pharmaceutical business operates in 95 countries, with 30,000 employees and more than 1,500 products.

**What You’ll Do**
- Represent the affiliate’s medical voice of expertise for assigned products and relevant therapeutic areas by providing medical expert advice to key customers, including scientific exchange and professional relationship development with key opinion leaders.
- To provide medical/scientific input into marketing strategy and key educational initiatives as required.
- Develop and maintain in depth knowledge for assigned product(s) / relevant therapeutic area(s) through attendance / participation at key internal meetings/training sessions, relevant congresses, and seminars and by regular self-study of the national/international literature.
- Provide expert medical/scientific advice for assigned products and related therapeutic areas, including the response to requests for scientific/technical information; contribute to the development and medical and scientific accuracy of core dossiers generated by the medical department (i.e. pricing and reimbursement dossiers, HEOR dossiers, medical information packs, clinical expert reviews etc).
- Establish and maintain professional and credible relationships with key opinion leaders and academic centers; this will involve participating in scientific congresses, coordinating advisory boards, round-table meetings, discussion fora etc.
- Deliver scientific presentations and medical education programs to healthcare professionals individually or in groups (meetings, clinical sessions, etc.), where requested.
- Screen relevant literature and other information from relevant scientific societies meetings and conferences and develop summaries of key messages for use within the Company (e.g. key areas of scientific/company interest, new trends in diagnosis, monitoring and treatments in the therapeutic area, etc.)
- Deliver training to sales forces and other departments; develop and update relevant training materials.
- Support the Clinical Research Activities through supporting the design and implementation of clinical research projects within defined standards and budgets) and provide the required oversight to manage review, approval and conduct of IIS studies.
- Review and development of promotional material. Ensure the medical/scientific content is correct and fully compliant with Abbott’s internal policies and guidelines.
- Provide medical/scientific input into marketing strategy and key commercial initiatives, as required. Monitor the environment for competitive intelligence (e.g. product strategies, studies, commercial messages, positioning, etc.) and communicate, where appropriate, within the Company.
- Ensure compliance with all applicable national laws and regulations, guidelines, codes of conduct, Abbott’s policies and procedures and accepted standards of best practice.

**Required Qualifications**

University Degree in Medicine or Pharmacy

**Preferred Qualifications**
- At least 3-5 years’ experience in a in similar position in pharmaceutical company
- Familiarity with the relevant therapy areas and healthcare industry in Saudi Arabia
- Fluent in English
- Good communication and presentat