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Position Purpose

To ensure the provision of a customer focused Medical Information (MI) service to HCPs and patients across Europe and Intercon Markets, aligned with the Medical Excellence team by:

• Contributing to the strategy and execution of MI processes, standards and services including relationship with the Medical Contact Partner (MCP).
• Collaborating within matrix teams at a Worldwide (WW) and Market level performing MI activities that meet local regulatory/cultural requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Actively engage with all key matrix functions at a Worldwide (WW)/Market level to:
  • Provide an MI request service for managing complex questions in a timely and efficient manner
  • Support the delivery of MI to HCPs and patients to meet market and regulatory needs
  • Provide MI guidance and support for local or WW congress booths as required
  • Support cross-functional Medical Excellence teams to ensure MI integration and alignment with therapy area plans/launches
  • Support MI system related enhancements and maintenance

• Support Medical Customer Engagement Centre activities, such as:

• Establishment, Maintenance and Adherence to processes and procedures ensuring operational effectiveness
• Delivery of performance reports and insights to stakeholders
• Inspection readiness and audit participation
• Oversee assigned departmental budget(s)
• Implement and co-ordinate solution for telephony issues
• Service Evolution by participation in MCP visits, contribute to specific objectives and deliverables and perform follow-up on identified action plans
• Analysis and communication of metrics and customer insights from MI requests.
• Monitor performance of MCP against agreed procedures and quality metrics to ensure compliance. Identify continuous improvement opportunities and support process improvement plans.
• Contribute to MCP training requirements and collaborate closely with the partner to support the provision and delivery of training ensuring up to date information to the partner on a regular basis.
• Ensure accurate, balanced, and current resources are available and communicated, to enable MCP to respond to unsolicited requests for MI received through all channels.
• Collaborate closely with MCP to ensure needs identification for standard content (clinical and non-clinical) and active contribution to the development of WW Core Content.
• Provide oversight for ensuring escalations for markets are managed in a timely and efficient manner and oversee the process for ensuring any clinical market content is consistent with product labelling and new and updated WW content. 
• Operational execution of MI systems, services, communications, and tactics in the delivery of on-demand MI to customers.
• Engage, participate, and drive initiatives of the WW Medical Excellence organization.
• International travel may be required.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

Education & Experience

• Pharmacist, physician, or life science graduate
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or related industry including MI and ability to demonstrate expert knowledge of MI function, activities, and processes.
• Fluency in both spoken and written English
• Proficiency with systems (e.g., Salesforce), processes, products, and customer relations skills

Functional & Technical Skills

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to problem solve and develop solutions whilst working across the matrix to provide an excellent Medical Information service to respond to customer enquiries.
• Ability to critically evaluate scientific data as well as retrieve and evaluate information from multiple sources for preparing MI responses.
• Excellent understanding of WW and Market level specific regulations, guidelines, and the practice of medicine as it is pertinent to MI.
• Excellence in communication of scientific knowledge and the value of MI to the customer and internal stakeholders.
• Collaboration across WW Medical Excellence to efficiently align resources, simplify processes and identify opportunities for enhanced customer experience.
• Ability to establish effective and productive relationships with relevant stakeholders. 
• Ability to critically analyze performance against quality measures, metrics, and process. Able to develop and implement appropriate actions in response to outcomes.
• Initiative to identify gaps and propose innovative solutions that optimize process and utilize technology.
• Prior experience managing and leading internal Medical Information Contact Channel or Outsourced Medical Information Partners in a global, highly matrixed organization.

Developmental Value

• Experience working across Markets and the WW  Medical Excellence Organization and opportunity to develop MCP management skills.
• Building a reputation and visibility with the Medical Information community internally and externally e.g., MILE, PhactMI.
• Strengthening relationship building skills through cross-functional and cross-cultural involvement

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Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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