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Medical Advisor

Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh
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  • Job Type: Full Time
  • Job Level: Senior
  • Travel: Minimal (if any)

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In R&D, all of our history and potential comes together in an environment that welcomes diversity of thought and amplifies every voice. Working closely with colleagues, you’ll play a key role in bringing our rich pipeline of products forward to help patients. Come join a team that’s earned trust for more than two centuries, and find out how advancing transformative therapies at Takeda will shape your bright future.

Job ID R0148237 Date posted 03/30/2025 Location Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh

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Job Description

Job Title: Medical Advisor

Location: Ho chi Minh, Vietnam

About the role:

This position is responsible for providing strategies for medical affairs within a specific Therapeutic Area of vaccine.  He/she will contribute to the achievement of business success by putting the patient’s needs, diagnosis, prevention, access to our medicines and safety into primary focus by leveraging the understanding of Vietnam’s healthcare system and local regulations to evaluate the possibility of local pre-authorization/ investigational medicines.

How you will contribute:

1. STRATEGIC PLANNING

  • Leads the coordination between the local and global teams to plan and implement early access programs in compliance with our strategy

  • Responsible for creating and executing the Medical Plan, aligned with both the Brand Plan and the Regional Medical Plan (where relevant)

  • Provides medical/scientific input into the Brand Plan and is a member of the cross-functional Brand Team

  • Utilizes in-field insights to support medical and scientific strategy and business development

  • Develops medical strategies through effective and appropriate collaboration with MSL team

2. CONTRIBUTION TO ORGANIZATION THROUGH MEDICAL EXPERTISE

  • Leads the implementation of key medical activities (e.g. Advisory Boards, Focus Group Meetings, medical education and peer-to-peer training activities)

  • Creates or support the development of medical/scientific materials and slide decks as needed,

  • Leads the identification of educational opportunities that are aligned with Takeda’s medical education strategies and Provides scientific support for continuous medical education (CMEs)

  • Creates and delivers relevant TA (s) training to Local teams as needed

3. CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

  • Contributes or provides medical review of promotional materials for scientific meetings, symposia and other Medical Education activities, in accordance with applicable to Codes of Practice and local regulations as well as Takeda policies within defined timelines

  • Ensures that the scientific-medical content as compliant with local regulatory norms and internal compliance rules

  • Ensures compliance of all responsible activities to relevant laws and regulations as well as internal standards and SOPs

  • Supports the company reputation and profile by representing the company on cross-company boards as needed

4. EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT

  • Responsible for representing Takeda in the therapeutic area by providing an expert medical voice with external stakeholders as needed

  • Establishes sustainable relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs), government officials, healthcare organizations and ensures that significant developments in the field are identified and monitored

  • Assesses the local healthcare landscape and anticipates changes and meets with key stakeholders to address the health system gaps, e.g. on diagnosis or early patient access

5. CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

  • Shares medical insights in the relevant TA to cross functional colleagues

  • Provides medical and scientific input in the relevant Therapeutic Area(s) to cross-functional stakeholders, including marketing, regulatory, market access / alliance functions and others as required

  • Advises other teams on medical and scientific matters, including but not limited to scientific approval of promotional materials. Provides medical and scientific training to internal stakeholders as needed

  • Develops and executes data generation/dissemination plan for the relevant Therapeutic Area (s) in line with the Medical Plan

  • Provides leadership and medical expertise in the development of clinical research programs in line with global strategies to support local product registration and marketing

  • Supports the Medical Lead in planning and implementing programs as needed and as per local regulatory requirements for products within TA(s). Explore the opportunities for early access to innovative treatment, disease prevention through clinical trials, named patient program, individual patient request.

  • Provide medical expertise in the review of adverse events locally and contribute to global pharmacovigilance activities.

  • Other tasks as assigned.

What you bring to Takeda:

  • Medical Doctor or Post-Graduate Degree in Pharmacy/ Life Sciences (Ph.D., Master) …

  • 3-5 years of experience in driving and managing the medical strategy for various brands in the pharmaceutical industry, vaccine experience is preferred.

  • Excellent leadership, managerial, interpersonal and relationship building skills

  • Very strong scientific expertise, preferably in the therapeutic areas mentioned or in other specialty medicines. Good knowledge of healthcare systems

  • Highly collaborative, confident and strong communication skills. Excellent presentation skills

  • Strategic thinker, innovative, able to drive multiple-simultaneous initiatives, able to work under pressure

  • Able to drive consensus across diverse stakeholders to achieve goals

  • Ability to identify and proactively addresses issues before they reach crisis points

  • Goal oriented, focused, energetic, and enthusiastic

  • Passionate and committed in all undertakings

  • Fluency in English both verbal and written

  • A high level of knowledge of regulatory environment including key regulatory agencies and approval processes relevant to the country

More about us:

At Takeda, we are transforming patient care through the development of novel specialty pharmaceuticals and best in class patient support programs. Takeda is a patient-focused company that will inspire and empower you to grow through life-changing work.

Certified as a Global Top Employer, Takeda offers stimulating careers, encourages innovation, and strives for excellence in everything we do. We foster an inclusive, collaborative workplace, in which our teams are united by an unwavering commitment to deliver Better Health and a Brighter Future to people around the world.

Empowering our people to shine:

Takeda is proud in its commitment to creating a diverse workforce and providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, parental status, national origin, age, disability, citizenship status, genetic information or characteristics, marital status, status as a Vietnam era veteran, special disabled veteran, or other protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws, and any other characteristic protected by law.

Locations

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time
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