Job Description

Senior Specialist - Medical Information

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organization. We’re proud to foster an inclusive environment driving innovation and excellence, and we welcome you to join us on our mission to shape the future of clinical development

The Senior Specialist Medical Information is a key medical resource and maintains an expert level of current pharmaceutical knowledge for relevant medications and disease states.

The Senior Specialist creates, develops, and communicates balanced accurate medical information and will support the advisement, guidance, and appropriate clinically safe use of pharmaceutical drug medications by physicians and other health care providers in the medical community.

This position will spearhead and maintain key relationships transversally with internal stakeholders, as well as with key opinion leaders and other relevant external stakeholders

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform in-depth pharmaceutical drug research, analysis and interpretation of pharmaceutical drug pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and patient safety data utilizing literature searching databases and other professional society resources for pharmacists as necessary.

• Support the other members of the team to provide accurate, timely, and fair-balanced answers to medical pharmaceutical inquiries about drug products from healthcare professionals, providers, pharmacy groups, pharmaceutical drug suppliers, and consumers.

• Supervise the creation of pharmaceutical and medical information response documents to prioritized inquiries, assembling the information evaluated into an accurate, comprehensive and concise medical response with accurate pharmaceutical information.

• Adaptation, approval and maintenance of core medical information documentation for Region International. This includes but is not limited to Medical Response Letters, Frequently Asked Questions documents and scientific slides about both marketed and pipeline products.

• Create reports and dashboards in order to keep track of the metrics of the team ensuring a deeper understanding of the dynamics of the different countries.

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD) in a scientific discipline or equivalent required.

• Proven ability to perform in-depth medical literature research, analysis and interpretation of drug evaluation and use data for timing, distribution, safety, and efficacy

• Knowledge of the pharmaceutical and regulatory guidelines affecting the dissemination of pharmaceutical drug medical information and drug product promotion

• Personal leadership, accountability, strong interpersonal and organizational skills, and the ability to work in a cross-functional team
  environment

• Proficiency in PowerPoint strongly preferred

• Proficiency in the use of literature searching databases

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (including presentation skills)

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What ICON can offer you:

Our success depends on the quality of our people. That’s why we’ve made it a priority to build a diverse culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent.

In addition to your competitive salary, ICON offers a range of additional benefits. Our benefits are designed to be competitive within each country and are focused on well-being and work life balance opportunities for you and your family.

Our benefits examples include:

• Various annual leave entitlements

• A range of health insurance offerings to suit you and your family’s needs.

• Competitive retirement planning offerings to maximize savings and plan with confidence for the years ahead.

• Global Employee Assistance Programme, TELUS Health, offering 24-hour access to a global network of over 80,000 independent specialised professionals who are there to support you and your family’s well-being.

• Life assurance

• Flexible country-specific optional benefits, including childcare vouchers, bike purchase schemes, discounted gym memberships, subsidised travel passes, health assessments, among others.

Visit our careers site to read more about the benefits ICON offers.

At ICON, inclusion & belonging are fundamental to our culture and values. We’re dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible environment for all candidates. ICON is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know or submit a request here

Interested in the role, but unsure if you meet all of the requirements? We would encourage you to apply regardless – there’s every chance you’re exactly what we’re looking for here at ICON whether it is for this or other roles.

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