Senior Medical Affairs Manager

The Opportunity

As the Senior Medical Affairs Manager, the position represents the affiliate’s medical/scientific voice of expertise for assigned relevant therapeutic areas and special task assignment. The position provides medical/scientific expert advice and guidance to key customers for assigned products and relevant therapeutic areas, including scientific exchange and professional relationship development with key opinion leaders. It provides medical/scientific input into marketing strategy and key commercial initiatives, as required, and medical/scientific support for medical department activities under the direction of the Head of the affiliate medical function.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and maintain in depth knowledge for assigned product(s) and relevant therapeutic area(s).
• Provide expert medical/scientific advice for assigned products and related therapeutic areas.
• Provide medical/scientific input into marketing strategy and key commercial initiatives, as required.
• Deliver scientific and medical education programs to healthcare professionals.
• Review and approve promotional materials, ensuring the highest standards of medical accuracy and fair, objective, and balanced communication.
• Develop scientific materials and initiate approval requests.
• Cooperate on clinical research activities with global and regional teams, including implementation and management of local clinical trials, IIS, BE, feasibility studies, and non-interventional clinical research activities.
• Assure that clinical research program design meets scientific objectives and aligns with Medical Affairs strategy.
• Ensure compliance with Corporate and Divisional Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and local regulatory requirements.
• Build relationships with investigators and apply their inputs to enhance study design and protocols.
• Provide monitoring visits and site management for a variety of protocols, sites, and therapeutic areas.
• Collaborate and liaise with study team members to support project execution.
• Serve as the scientific expert on clinical research matters and regulatory requirements.
• Administer and maintain appropriate documentation, including protocol approvals and study expenditures.
• Support sites in adapting, driving, and tracking subject recruitment plans in line with project needs.
• Manage internal TARC review and approval of local clinical activities in assigned therapeutic areas.
• Lead local clinical trial applications through central research committees where required.
• Complete monthly metric data entry.
• Manage CLIMATE and Clinical Tracker SharePoint platforms.
• Coach and manage Medical Affairs Specialist performance, including monitoring monthly metrics and driving excellence in execution towards Medical Affairs strategic and tactical goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy plus higher education at Master’s degree level.
• Minimum 2 years of Medical Affairs Manager experience in a pharmaceutical company.
• Excellent ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks.
• Strong project management, analytical, and decision-making skills.
• General knowledge of drug development and clinical research is an advantage.
• Strong interest in developing and maintaining expert knowledge in assigned therapeutic areas/products and medical research in general.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• High customer orientation.
• Excellent stakeholder management, relationship-building, networking, tact, and diplomacy skills.
• Fluent in English and Thai, both verbal and written.
• Good computer skills and ability to learn and adapt to working with IT systems.
• Knowledge of ICH, GCP, regulations, industry practices, and applicable standards.
• Strong commitment to compliance, scientific quality, and integrity.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Location

This position is based in Bangkok, Thailand.