Medical Advisor

**JOB TITLE**:
**Rare Disease Medical Advisor**:
***ABOUT ASTRAZENECA**:
**AstraZeneca is a global, science-led, patient-focused biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialisation of prescription medicines for some of the world’s most serious diseases. But we’re more than one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.**:
**ROLE SUMMARY**:
**AstraZeneca is accelerating the expansion of our geographical footprint in rare diseases following the acquisition of Alexion in 2021. Rare disease is a high-growth therapy area with rapid innovation and significant unmet medical need. Over 7,000 rare diseases are known today - yet less than 1% of them have an approved treatment.**:
**As we begin to build our position as a Rare Disease leader, we seek a Rare Disease Medical Advisor to join our Medical Affairs team in **(KSA Riyadh).**:
**As a Medical Advisor - Rare Disease you'll play a pivotal role in channelling our scientific capabilities to bring an important new therapy in a rare disease setting into clinical practice, making a positive impact on patients' lives.**:
**The Medical Advisor - Rare Disease is a professional with scientific, clinical, and therapeutic area expertise responsible for providing medical and scientific support to healthcare professionals aligned to the use of medicines in our combined rare disease portfolio. You will report into the GCC Medical Manager for Rare Disease.**:
**The Medical Advisor will provide detailed knowledge of therapeutic area and product, as well as technical and promotional standards expertise for the strategic and operational development, promotion, and commercialisation of AstraZeneca products within a therapeutic team of commercially focused professionals. The role interprets and adds value to scientific information by generating commercially relevant outputs which are promotionally defensible and tailored to the needs of customers. It brings a key contribution to the scientific and ethical image of the company and provides competitive advantage through scientific servicing that outstands in quality that of competitors, in a customer-service directed way.**:
**What you’ll do**:
**Provides external (health care professionals) and internal (Sales, Marketing, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory etc.) customers with state-of-the art, balanced, scientific information on rare disease products, their competitors and related disease areas**:

- ** Builds and maintains visibility and excellent long-term professional relationships with opinion leaders in order to increase scientific knowledge, customer insight and competitive intelligence, thereby optimising the current and future market potential of the rare disease product portfolio (appropriate use in various pathologies, efficacy and tolerability data in specific indications, available clinical trial data, etc.)**:

- ** Provides Medical Information with updated, standardized, ready to use, replies to frequently asked questions**:
**Build, enhance and maintain the engagement with scientific leaders (KEEs)**:

- ** 75% of time in field engaging HCPs and external stakeholders across territory**:

- ** Proactively identify HCPs with high levels of scientific expertise in local treatment practice to collaborate on specific medico marketing activities**:

- ** Development and implementation of KEE engagement plan in collaboration with TA medical manager and TA lead. Review with the line manager this plan every quarter.**:

- ** Develop own scientific knowledge for discussion on all aspects of the data to be shared with KEE in a scientific, objective, and balanced way through 1:1 discussion. Prepare for such interactions with peer group discussions. Develop database of Key opinion leaders and provide recommendations for advisory board participation**:

- ** “to proactively provide scientific updates and information to KEEs and identify the relevance of the data to the scientific community and gathering Insights from market**:

- ** Contribute in developing study concepts, identify new opportunities and evidence gaps, and work closely with investigators to generate data to inform clinical practice**:
**Build and maintain trust‐based relationships with external stakeholders**:

- ** Build AZ relationship with key external stakeholders (e.g. patient advocacy groups, key medical organizations, hospital pharmacy). Find opportunities to collaborate with such external stakeholders. Provide scientific support in CME events and through appropriate medical sponsorships/ partnership.**:

- ** Act as scientific expert in the disease area(s) by presenting therapeutic updates to external stakeholders.**:
**Develop or initiate scientific programs to explore unmet medical needs in priority disease area(s)**:

- ** Work with HCPs in scientific activities that help advance disease understanding such as**:

- ** Identify and recommend OLs for Advisory Boards.**:

- ** Identify potential speake