6 Medical Liaison jobs in South Africa

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Job Function
Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function
Medical Science Liaison

Job Category
Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:
Cleveland, Ohio, United States, Florida (Any City), Irvine, California, United States of America, Maryland (Any City), New Jersey (Any City), North Carolina (Any City), Ohio (Any City), South Carolina (Any City), Washington (Any City)

Job Description
We are searching for the best talent to join our Vision team as a
Principal Medical Science Liaison.
This is a field-based role available in multiple states and cities within the Northeast and Southeast. While specific cities are listed in the Locations section for reference, please note that they are examples only and do not limit your application.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that's reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient's lifetime.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at

Purpose:
The Medical Science Liaison (MSL) is a field-based member of the Johnson and Johnson Vision (JJV) Medical Affairs team. They provide a strategic connection between our external customers (Key Opinion Leaders and Eye Care Professionals) and internal stakeholders. They are accountable for delivering medical, scientific, and technical information and insights, and initiating & maintaining relationships, internally and externally, to increase awareness of JJV's products and relevant disease states

You Will

• Maintain advanced clinical knowledge of new and growing relevant eye health disease states, advancements in science and evidence in relevant categories.
• Provide medical, scientific, and technical information to relevant customers.
• Initiate and maintain relationships to increase awareness of JJV's products and disease states by designing, developing, and delivering effective presentations and by coordinating symposia and continuing education seminars.
• Collect and follow up on unsolicited medical information requests and assisting in the developing novel clinical study ideas.
• Develop and provide clinical information to current and potential key opinion leaders. Coordinate continuing educational workshops, seminars and programs for relevant health care workers, physicians, and scientists.
• Provide analysis of clinical studies to verify information integrity of the company's products.
• Assist with preparation of product presentations for demonstration to thought leaders, medical groups, government agencies and health systems.
• Coordinate policies and procedures for development and provision of medical and technical information relating to the company's products for use by customers.
• Deliver medical information to internal/external health sources as directed.
• Assist in creation of educational, promotional, and reporting materials for use within the company's departments.
• Ethically gather scientific, customer, and market information on prelaunch and marketed products as directed.
• Demonstrate Johnson & Johnson Credo values and a role model of health care compliance, including HIPPA and privacy.

Qualifications

• Minimum educational requirement: Master's degree or an advanced scientific degree (e.g., OD, PhD, MD, DO highly preferred).
• Minimum of 5 years clinical work experience in field of Optometry/Ophthalmology, and a minimum of 3 years' experience in a customer facing role
• Knowledge of eye diseases and ocular health landscape
• Ability to communicate effectively and build strong partnerships is required
• Demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit and take the initiative, and persevere to overcome challenges
• Excellent presentation skills and strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong influencing skills to represent needs of stakeholders
• Must be able to prioritize tasks and work effectively in a constantly changing environment
• Strong judgment and balanced decision-making
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, and Excel) and associated hardware
• Expected Travel 75% or greater

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of people and project management
• Experience in a customer-facing role (Medical Device or Pharma)
• Working knowledge of the Healthcare System and of research procedures
• Experience in understanding the design and execution clinical trials, in particular in the post-market phase
• Experience in creating and delivering scientific presentations, basic experience in medical writing and a general knowledge of biostatistics
• Knowledge of product development, clinical trial design, regulatory requirements, payer landscape, and life cycle management
• Proven ability and experience to develop and foster peer-to-peer, credible relationships with Medical Experts/decision makers
• Experience in adverse event management

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants' needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$115,000-$195,000

Additional Description For Pay Transparency
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company's long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours Additional information can be found through the link below.

Company Description
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company based across global locations. Each of our 24,000 plus employees comes to work every day for one collective purpose: to accelerate access to affordable and innovative medicines because
Good Health Can't Wait
.

We started in 1984 with a modest investment, 20 employees and a bold vision. Today, we have research and development centres, manufacturing facilities or a commercial presence in 66 countries.

For nearly four decades, we have stood for access, affordability and innovation based on the bedrock of deep science, progressive people practices and robust corporate governance. As the pharmaceutical industry evolves and undergoes disruption, we see an opportunity – to strengthen our core further (the next steps) and to build the future (the new bets).

'The Next and the New' is how we aim to continue to be the partner of choice – purpose-driven, future-ready and sustainable. Our aim is to reach over 1.5 Bn+ patients across the world by 2030 by growing our core businesses and building for the future with sustainability at the core of our purpose and strategy. Sustainability for us means operating in a manner that respects people, planet and purpose – helping us conserve precious resources, serve our patients, create value for stakeholders, give back to society, fulfil our potential and maintain our integrity and transparency

Dr Reddy's maintains a work environment, free from discrimination and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to employ & nurture all qualified diverse workforce without regard to race, colour religion, nationality, sex, age, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender expression, citizenship or any other characteristic or classification protected by applicable law(s) of the country we operate in. We treasure every talent, and recognize merit and diversity in our organization.

Job Description
Purpose:
The Senior MSL is a credible and valued representative of the company in field to interact with key stakeholders across their regions/products/TAs to establish and maintain scientific relationships with opinion leaders and other healthcare professionals via scientific approach that is aligned with the Brand Team objectives and therapeutic area Medical Plan.

The Senior MSL is responsible for providing a variety of external and internal customers with medical and scientific information on the appropriate utilization of specific company products and with more general information about their therapeutic area and disease state.

The Senior MSL attends conferences and meetings on behalf of the company as scientific expert with the objective of bringing back information on the latest scientific advances in a specific therapeutic area.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
(AOR)

External stakeholder engagement

• The senior MSL is a credible and valued representative of the company in field to interact with key stakeholders across their regions/products/TAs to establish and maintain scientific relationships with opinion leaders and other healthcare professionals via scientific approach that is aligned with the Brand Team objectives and therapeutic area Medical Plan.
• The senior MSL will spend up to 60% of their time in field based and customer facing activities by engaging in mutually beneficial 2-way dialogues with scientific expert's/key opinion leaders. The additional time will be office-based contributing to the holistic medical strategy for oncology.
• The senior MSL is responsible for providing a variety of external and internal customers with medical and scientific information on the appropriate utilization of specific company products and with more general information about their therapeutic area and disease state.
• The senior MSL attends conferences and meetings on behalf of the company as scientific expert, and is required to bring updates on the latest scientific advances in a specific therapeutic area back to the company, brand team as well as external stakeholders.
• Engages with clinical and medical oncologists to share scientific data on DRL Oncology assets and share phase 3 clinical trial data. Discuss the clinical unmet need and current treatment landscape as well as global guidelines and pipeline molecules. The incumbent will be expected to spend up to 60% of time in-field engaging key opinion leaders. The incumbent will also develop an adoption ladder to measure the adoption of the portfolio by the clinicians.
• Stay abreast of all clinical developments in specific therapeutic area and possible opportunity or challenge for the local business.
• Collaborate outside the company with stakeholders to achieve common goals of the company - building a long-term plan of activities with leading scientific organizations and communities.
• Coordinate planning of scientific publications in credible scientific journals, including guideline publications
• Perform key opinion leader mapping for relevant cancers and establish a scientific advisory board, which will assist DRL in launching innovative assets. Regularly engage advisory board members. Also participate in other formalized and informal insights generation initiatives including formalized market research.
• Prepare speaker development program in collaboration with global medical affairs team
• Create and execute a plan for the company's collaboration with key opinion leaders.
• Manage any product- specific EAP (Expanded Access Program).
• To implement and disseminate high quality medical and scientific education in the field – to give clinical and scientific presentations at sites and to key external audience including local decision makers and budget holders – in co-operation with medical advisor, local marketing and sales function.

Medico-Marketing

• Provide input in the strategic segmentation of customers, and ensure MSL in-field material and discussion aligns with the segmentation of the key external expert
• Contribute towards building patient and HCP decision journeys, identify and prioritize leverage points from patient/ HCP journey.
• Contribute to the scientific elements of a detailed Brand plan for oncology assets.
• Prepare key clinical messages for oncology assets from a scientific communication perspective.
• Collaborate with physicians on medical affairs initiatives including publications, advisory boards, medical education opportunities, training, and speaker development
• Conduct continuous medical education initiatives - webinars, face to face and alternative digital channels
• Find innovative ways to engage with customers and increase DRL scientific share of voice
• Create specialized content for different target audiences. Have knowledge of how to extract customer insights. Identify barriers and create communication plan based on insights.
• Prepare a formal insight gathering and dissemination plan based on KOL and field insights
• Develop an understanding of the regional landscape including specialties involved in care of patient
• Communicate clinical insights on new data to the company Medical Affairs and to inform medical strategy for the therapeutic area
• Develop country-specific disease area medical strategy

Data Generation Plan

• Identify any data gaps and propose post-marketing studies to close the data gaps.
• Responsible for assisting in the preparation of study synopses, study protocols, case report forms.
• Prepare publications and congress abstracts in collaboration with key external experts.
• Support clinical development initiatives including site identification, trial recruitment, registry, and presentation of final approved data.

Sales Force Engagement

• Conduct trainings with the sales team and cross functional brand team.

Code of ethics and compliance

• Full adherence to Dr Reddy's and South Africa code of marketing and ethical engagements with Key Opinion Leaders
• Complete on-boarding training matrix within agreed time
• Maintain up to date training register and adherence to all company training requirements within allocated timelines
• Adhere to all policies and processes relevant to specific role/ function including but not limited to LMRC promotional material management, Contracting and procurement processes, execution of events, engagements with HCP's, expense policies etc.

Strategic Vision and Leadership

• Senior MSL's synthesize complex data and effectively communicate meaningful clinical insights and unanswered customer questions they receive from opinion leaders to Dr Reddy's medical and cross functional teams

BU wide Transformation initiatives

• Take lead in proposing BU wide transformation initiatives which could create distinct value for the organization. Facilitate implementation, review & tracking such initiatives (for e.g. safety, productivity, manufacturing excellence);

Depending on the business requirements and strategic direction for the BU, identify specific areas / projects / problems; engage with business teams and external entities to work out solutions; partner in implementing the solutions; monitor the progress and help troubleshoot when needed in order to create value for the BU through various initiatives

Qualifications
Qualification and Experience:

• Qualification: PhD or masters in Pharmacy/ Pharmacology or medical sciences
• At least 3 -5 years' experience in a medical affairs role within pharma
• Oncology experience is a pre-requisite
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience in launching innovative assets
• Advanced communication, medical writing and presentation skills.

Benefits:

• Market related salary
• Provident Fund
• Medical Aid
• Performance Bonus

Additional Information
Benefits Offered
At Dr. Reddy's we actively help to catalyse your career growth and professional development through personalised learning programs.

The benefits you will enjoy at Dr. Reddy's are on par with the best industry standards. They include, among other things and other essential equipment, joining & relocation support, family support (Maternity & Paternity benefits), learning and development opportunities, medical coverage for yourself and your family, life coverage for yourself.

Our Work Culture
Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy's why they come to work every day and they'll say, because Good Health Can't Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we're always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

For more details, please visit our career website

Dr Reddy's Laboratories Limited is looking for: Head: Medical Affairs in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Head: Medical Affairs

• Johannesburg, South Africa
• Full-time
• Preferred type of working: Hybrid
• Years of Experience: 6 - 12

Company Description

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company based across global locations. Each of our 24,000 plus employees comes to work every day for one collective purpose: to accelerate access to affordable and innovative medicines because
Good Health Can't Wait
.

We started in 1984 with a modest investment, 20 employees and a bold vision. Today, we have research and development centres, manufacturing facilities or a commercial presence in 66 countries.

For nearly four decades, we have stood for access, affordability and innovation based on the bedrock of deep science, progressive people practices and robust corporate governance. As the pharmaceutical industry evolves and undergoes disruption, we see an opportunity – to strengthen our core further (the next steps) and to build the future (the new bets).

'The Next and the New' is how we aim to continue to be the partner of choice – purpose-driven, future-ready and sustainable. Our aim is to reach over 1.5 Bn+ patients across the world by 2030 by growing our core businesses and building for the future with sustainability at the core of our purpose and strategy. Sustainability for us means operating in a manner that respects people, planet and purpose – helping us conserve precious resources, serve our patients, create value for stakeholders, give back to society, fulfil our potential and maintain our integrity and transparency

Dr Reddy's maintains a work environment, free from discrimination and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to employ & nurture all qualified diverse workforce without regard to race, colour religion, nationality, sex, age, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender expression, citizenship or any other characteristic or classification protected by applicable law(s) of the country we operate in. We treasure every talent, and recognize merit and diversity in our organization.

Job Description

• You will be responsible for developing and executing a highly efficient and integrated
  medico-marketing
  strategy, including scientific evidence generation and scientific information exchange with all key stakeholders.
• Your role involves providing strategic input for the elaboration of
  brand plans
  and ensuring that the overall strategy is clearly defined and consistent with medical affairs and commercial strategic objectives.
• You will review and approve medical and scientific content across various departments, provide guidance to marketing and sales teams, and coordinate scientific activities such as webinars, Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs, Advisory Board meetings, and Preceptorship programs.
• Your role includes preparing scientific agendas, providing literature and presentation support, providing strategic support for new product launches and existing products, offering medical and scientific strategy for new launches, and providing strategic Life Cycle Management (LCM) inputs for existing products.
• You will provide strategic direction for communicating with external customers, key organizations, and institutions, collaborate with commercial teams to address questions and opportunities, inform stakeholders of unmet needs, and facilitate appropriate approaches to address them. You will also interact with experts at medical meetings, advisory boards, and outreach meetings.
• You will develop and implement a strong advocacy plan with experts in the field, academics, professionals, and patient associations, leveraging prior knowledge and established relationships with key opinion leaders (KOL).
• Ensuring the scientific integrity of information and relationships with healthcare providers and patient advocacy groups is paramount in your role.
• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance in medical affairs and medico-marketing activities, including the selection of speakers, determining Fair Market Value (FMV), and evaluating participation criteria. Your role involves identifying needs for post-marketing programs and managing their end-to-end execution.
• Your role entails evaluating new products to enhance the portfolio, providing medical rationale and analysis for selected products to Business Development, Portfolio, and Centre of Excellence (CoE) teams, and conducting Advisory Board meetings to gather opinions from KOLs on new products.
• You will collaborate with the Training Manager to enhance training programs on diseases and competitor products, supporting in developing content, conducting training sessions for new launches, as well as providing scientific updates on existing products.
• You will lead and contribute to a system of competitive intelligence and monitoring of publications, compiling and circulating regular scientific updates on major brands and therapy areas to keep stakeholders informed and up-to-date.
• You will be responsible for ensuring a patient-centric approach to the development of medical strategy for products, devices and services. This involves providing support for digital activities and quality review of digital content.
• Your role entails supporting market research, opportunity validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing product features.
• You will collaborate with central product teams to develop product roadmaps tailored to user needs and market demands and plan product releases.
• You will engage with potential customers and internal stakeholders to understand market challenges and business opportunities in various therapy areas.
• You will also lead discussions with potential partners and service providers to enable new services and revenue streams around the product.
• You will support the planning and monitoring of product Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), pilots, and launch activities in the market, working closely with the central product team.
• You will oversee data generation activities and contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of differentiated Patient Support Programs for key products.

Qualifications

Educational qualification
:
Degree in Medicine. Postgraduate qualifications in medicine or business would be an advantage.

Minimum work experience
:
Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in
Medical Affairs.
Active HPCSA Registration. ( Advantage)

Skills & attributes:

• In-depth understanding of and proven success in how to conceptualize, design, and execute patient programmes.
• Broad and formal leadership experience, including excellent "leadership presence" to represent Medical Affairs within the company, to other functions, and to leaders at every level.
• Excellent skills working with experts from other functions and influencing decision making.
• High energy and an absolute commitment to a culture that operates with high ethical standards and strives to exceed all goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire confidence while working demonstrating sound scientific judgment.
• Comfortable in operating in a consensus-building role but also able to make specific recommendations and decisions and drive for implementation.
• Ability to inspire confidence, both internally and externally, through leading by example and demonstrating collaborative behaviour.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and lead expert Scientific Advisory Panels.
• Ability to understand and effectively communicate scientific and medical data results and information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build solid working relationships with the commercial organisation, as well as negotiate and influence.

Main Requirement

To hire a
Medical Affairs professional
who can
strategically support medical marketing
efforts, especially in the absence of R&D and manufacturing functions.

Additional Information

Our Work Culture

Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy's why they come to work every day and they'll say, because Good Health Can't Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we're always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

For more details, please visit our career website

Company Description
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. is a leading multinational pharmaceutical company based across global locations. Each of our 24,000 plus employees comes to work every day for one collective purpose: to accelerate access to affordable and innovative medicines because
Good Health Can't Wait
.

We started in 1984 with a modest investment, 20 employees and a bold vision. Today, we have research and development centres, manufacturing facilities or a commercial presence in 66 countries.

For nearly four decades, we have stood for access, affordability and innovation based on the bedrock of deep science, progressive people practices and robust corporate governance. As the pharmaceutical industry evolves and undergoes disruption, we see an opportunity – to strengthen our core further (the next steps) and to build the future (the new bets).

'The Next and the New' is how we aim to continue to be the partner of choice – purpose-driven, future-ready and sustainable. Our aim is to reach over 1.5 Bn+ patients across the world by 2030 by growing our core businesses and building for the future with sustainability at the core of our purpose and strategy. Sustainability for us means operating in a manner that respects people, planet and purpose – helping us conserve precious resources, serve our patients, create value for stakeholders, give back to society, fulfil our potential and maintain our integrity and transparency

Dr Reddy's maintains a work environment, free from discrimination and is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to employ & nurture all qualified diverse workforce without regard to race, colour religion, nationality, sex, age, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender expression, citizenship or any other characteristic or classification protected by applicable law(s) of the country we operate in. We treasure every talent, and recognize merit and diversity in our organization.

Job Description

• You will be responsible for developing and executing a highly efficient and integrated medico-marketing strategy, including scientific evidence generation and scientific information exchange with all key stakeholders.
• Your role involves providing strategic input for the elaboration of brand plans and ensuring that the overall strategy is clearly defined and consistent with medical affairs and commercial strategic objectives.
• You will review and approve medical and scientific content across various departments, provide guidance to marketing and sales teams, and coordinate scientific activities such as webinars, Continuing Medical Education (CME) programs, Advisory Board meetings, and Preceptorship programs.
• Your role includes preparing scientific agendas, providing literature and presentation support, providing strategic support for new product launches and existing products, offering medical and scientific strategy for new launches, and providing strategic Life Cycle Management (LCM) inputs for existing products.
• You will provide strategic direction for communicating with external customers, key organizations, and institutions, collaborate with commercial teams to address questions and opportunities, inform stakeholders of unmet needs, and facilitate appropriate approaches to address them. You will also interact with experts at medical meetings, advisory boards, and outreach meetings.
• You will develop and implement a strong advocacy plan with experts in the field, academics, professionals, and patient associations, leveraging prior knowledge and established relationships with key opinion leaders (KOL).
• Ensuring the scientific integrity of information and relationships with healthcare providers and patient advocacy groups is paramount in your role.
• You will be responsible for ensuring compliance in medical affairs and medico-marketing activities, including the selection of speakers, determining Fair Market Value (FMV), and evaluating participation criteria. Your role involves identifying needs for post-marketing programs and managing their end-to-end execution.
• Your role entails evaluating new products to enhance the portfolio, providing medical rationale and analysis for selected products to Business Development, Portfolio, and Centre of Excellence (CoE) teams, and conducting Advisory Board meetings to gather opinions from KOLs on new products.
• You will collaborate with the Training Manager to enhance training programs on diseases and competitor products, supporting in developing content, conducting training sessions for new launches, as well as providing scientific updates on existing products.
• You will lead and contribute to a system of competitive intelligence and monitoring of publications, compiling and circulating regular scientific updates on major brands and therapy areas to keep stakeholders informed and up-to-date.
• You will be responsible for ensuring a patient-centric approach to the development of medical strategy for products, devices and services. This involves providing support for digital activities and quality review of digital content.
• Your role entails supporting market research, opportunity validation, and whitespace analysis to identify new opportunities for new and existing product features.
• You will collaborate with central product teams to develop product roadmaps tailored to user needs and market demands and plan product releases.
• You will engage with potential customers and internal stakeholders to understand market challenges and business opportunities in various therapy areas.
• You will also lead discussions with potential partners and service providers to enable new services and revenue streams around the product.
• You will support the planning and monitoring of product Minimum Viable Products (MVPs), pilots, and launch activities in the market, working closely with the central product team.
• You will oversee data generation activities and contribute to the development, implementation and monitoring of differentiated Patient Support Programs for key products.

Qualifications
Educational qualification:
Degree in Medicine. Postgraduate qualifications in medicine or business would be an advantage.

Minimum work experience:
Minimum of 5 years of industry experience in Medical Affairs. Active HPCSA Registration.

Skills & attributes:

• In-depth understanding of and proven success in how to conceptualize, design, and execute patient programmes.
• Broad and formal leadership experience, including excellent "leadership presence" to represent Medical Affairs within the company, to other functions, and to leaders at every level.
• Excellent skills working with experts from other functions and influencing decision making.
• High energy and an absolute commitment to a culture that operates with high ethical standards and strives to exceed all goals and objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to inspire confidence while working demonstrating sound scientific judgment.
• Comfortable in operating in a consensus-building role but also able to make specific recommendations and decisions and drive for implementation.
• Ability to inspire confidence, both internally and externally, through leading by example and demonstrating collaborative behaviour.
• Demonstrated ability to organize and lead expert Scientific Advisory Panels.
• Ability to understand and effectively communicate scientific and medical data results and information to internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to build solid working relationships with the commercial organisation, as well as negotiate and influence.

Additional Information
Our Work Culture
Ask any employee at Dr. Reddy's why they come to work every day and they'll say, because Good Health Can't Wait. This is our credo as well as the guiding principle behind all our actions. We see healthcare solutions not only as scientific formulations, but as a means to help patients lead healthier lives, and we're always attuned to the new and the next to empower people to stay fit. And to do this, we foster a culture of empathy and dynamism. People are at the core of our journey over the last few decades. They have been supported by an enabling environment that buoys individual ability while fostering teamwork and shared success. We believe that when people with diverse skills are bound together by a common purpose and value system, they can make magic.

For more details, please visit our career website

• South African National Parks (SANParks)

Officer: Science Liaison Cape Research Centre, Scientific Services

• Deadline:

04 November 2025

• Region:

Western Cape

• Salary:

Paterson Grade C4

• Type of employment:

Full time

Job Description
A vacancy currently exists for Officer: Science Liaison to be based in the Cape Research Centre. This role in Scientific Services provides support to external scientists and researchers to conduct biodiversity research within the national parks. This includes logistic, administrative guidance in the application process, general coordination between Scientific Services, Park Management, and the Researcher.

Location: Cape Research Centre (CRC), Tokai section of Table Mountain National Park.

The remuneration package includes a basic salary, based on the salary scale of a position with the Paterson C4 job grade, and allowances and benefits as specified in the Human Capital Management Tariff document and Conditions of Service of SANParks.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Facilitate and monitor the research project registration process for parks within the associated Scientific Services Research Unit.
• Develop an approach to maximize organizational learning from research projects.
• Take a leading role in SANParks emerging intellectual property debate.
• Facilitate logistics (accommodation, access, decals, game guards). support to visiting researchers.
• Ensure compliance of research processes with SANParks policy and alignment with organizational protocol.
• Assist facilitation and organizational of scientific engagements i.e. workshops/symposia/webinar.
• Submit quarterly reporting to the Conservation Services Division.
• Archive final reports, data, and metadata.
• Assists with preparations and smooth running of the Science Network Meeting and associated social media posts.
• Interface between researchers and SANParks management, ensuring projects are compliant with legislation, aligned with organisational priorities, and supported logistically where feasible.
• Science–Management Interface – Engage with park managers, section rangers, and researchers. Provide input to research strategy and committee meetings.

Qualifications And Requirements

• NQF level 8 in Natural/Social Sciences/Environmental/Biophysical Science.
• Understanding research design and methodologies.
• Minimum 2 years ecological experience.
• Biodiversity related legislation (NEMPAA,etc.)
• Computer literacy, especially databases and spreadsheets.
• Science communication and dissemination (blogs, infographics, visuals)
• Communication skills.
• Project management/administration experience.

How to apply

Persons who meet the above requirements can forward their electronic applications with subject: Officer: Science Liaison together with a Cover letter, CV and certified copies of their ID, relevant qualifications, driver's license) to:

Karabo Mashishi, Human Resource Officer: Conservation, Conservation Services, South African National Parks

Tel: Email:

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• Date posted:

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