MSD Hiring for Sr. Oncology Product Specialist Job at Dubai Full Time

Job Description

To be located in the United Arab Emirates, our company is looking for an experience Senior Product Specialist to support the sales of our oncology products in the UAE.

Our Oncology team is dedicated to delivering breakthrough innovations that extend and improve the lives of cancer patients worldwide. Our team of forward-thinking individuals achieve this through an unwavering commitment to support accessibility to medicine, providing new therapeutic solutions, and collaborating with governments and payers to ensure that people who need medicines have access to them. Our focus is on innovation and launch execution excellence; we translate breakthrough science into innovative medicines that help people with cancer across the globe.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the achievement of sales targets for the oncology portfolio in UAE.
• Is accountable for accurate execution of territory sales targets planning and operational cross functional territory development plan within assigned territory
• Able to identify and communicate with relevant customers including Key Opinion Leaders, Oncology decision-making authorities in the cancer institutions and other members of the appropriate Multi-Disciplinary Team (Nurses, Pharmacists, Pathologists, etc.) who are influential in the use of oncology products, to maximize sales in the territory.
• Works in close collaboration with line manager and members of cross functional team be responsible for creation, execution leading and coordinating the activities of other team members in the same territory (medical, MAx, CDx, policy, communications, etc.) to ensure that the impact of a cross-functional team approach is leveraged.
• Supports the marketing team to drive growth of our product and inline products, to maximize the business outcomes.
• Maintains an accurate and up to date picture of the competitive landscape and clinical perspectives within the cancer institutions in their territory.
• Territory analysis: Provide an accurate and reasonable territory potential picture as a basis for short and long term territory sales planning; should have a high level reflex in terms of competition assessment and reporting.
• Maintains an excellent understanding of various processes within the cancer institutions in their territory – e.g. Multidisciplinary Team approaches, Hospital Treatment Protocols for Cancer, Ethics Committee processes, Pharmacy Policies, Formulary Inclusion process, etc.
• In collaboration with, and supported by Market Access and Logistics colleagues, make sure that there is sufficient inventory at the hospital pharmacy to meet demand of Oncologists / Patients for Oncology Medicines (help prevent Out-of-Stocks at any point in time, in collaboration colleagues in Logistics / MAX colleagues, who are end-responsible for sustainable supply of medicines to oncology institutions).
• Ensure high level of ethical standards of Oncology business in place.

Qualifications

• University degree in a relevant Healthcare-related major
• A minimum of 2 years of experience in the pharmaceutical business with a successful track record
• Oncology experience is a plus
• UAE experience is a plus
• Excellent Presentation & communication skills
• Highly organized, structured with a competitive mindset
• Excellent planning & time management skills
• High level of learning agility
• The ability to interact with all levels of customers, including high level scientific leaders
• Excellent leadership skills and sound understanding of the roles of other cross-functional team members

Our Human Health Division maintains a “patient first, profits later” ideology. The organization is comprised of sales, marketing, market access, digital analytics and commercial professionals who are passionate about their role in bringing our medicines to our customers worldwide.

Who we are …
We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …
Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

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Number of Openings:

1

Requisition ID:R209706