Senior Medical Advisor

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Medical Affairs Group

Job Sub Function:

Medical Science Liaison

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Mongkok, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for Senior Medical Advisor – Oncology.

Purpose

The Senior Medical Advisor – Oncology provides scientific leadership and owns the development and execution of Medical Affairs strategy for assigned oncology products and indications in Hong Kong.

This role translates clinical evidence, unmet patient needs, and stakeholder insights into clear medical priorities, evidence-generation initiatives, and purposeful scientific engagement. Working closely with external experts and cross-functional partners, the Senior Medical Advisor supports launch readiness, patient access, and informed decision-making while maintaining scientific integrity and medical independence.

You will be responsible for:

• Developing and leading the Medical Affairs strategy and medical component of brand plans, translating clinical evidence, unmet patient needs, stakeholder insights, and scientific priorities into measurable medical initiatives 

• Providing medical leadership for launch readiness, lifecycle planning, and cross-functional strategy in partnership with Marketing, Market Access, Regulatory Affairs, and regional colleagues 

• Building and executing strategic scientific engagement plans with key opinion leaders, healthcare professionals, medical societies, and other external experts, including significant field-based, non-promotional scientific exchange 

• Generating, documenting, and synthesising insights from external scientific engagements, literature, clinical evidence, and the evolving treatment landscape to inform medical priorities and cross-functional decision-making 

• Identifying scientific and clinical education needs and leading high-quality medical education initiatives, including scientific meetings, educational programmes, and engagement with healthcare professionals and medical societies 

• Identifying local evidence gaps and coordinating evidence-generation activities, including investigator-initiated research and medical support for company-sponsored clinical studies, in partnership with relevant local, regional, and global teams 

• Providing accurate, balanced, and evidence-based medical expertise across unsolicited medical information enquiries, promotional material review, internal scientific training, and approved pre-approval access programmes 

• Ensuring Medical Affairs activities comply with applicable laws, industry codes, company policies, standard operating procedures, pharmacovigilance requirements, privacy standards, and medical governance expectations

Qualifications / Requirements:

• Advanced scientific or healthcare qualification in Medicine, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, or a related discipline; advanced postgraduate qualifications are highly desirable 

• Minimum 6 years of Medical Affairs experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical research, or related healthcare environment, preferably with exposure to Oncology 

• Deep scientific capability with the ability to critically interpret clinical evidence, treatment guidelines, emerging data, and competitive developments and translate them into meaningful medical implications 

• Demonstrated experience developing and executing medical strategies, including objective setting, stakeholder planning, resource prioritisation, and measurement of medical impact 

• Strong external scientific engagement capabilities with the credibility to conduct high-quality, non-promotional scientific exchange with key opinion leaders and healthcare professionals 

• Experience supporting evidence generation, medical education, clinical research, launch readiness, or lifecycle management activities within a regulated pharmaceutical environment 

• Excellent communication, scientific presentation, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to operate effectively across local, regional, and global matrix teams 

• High standards of integrity, scientific independence, judgement, and compliance, together with strong planning, prioritisation, and execution capabilities

About Oncology 

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Our Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures. We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Clinical Experience, Clinical Research and Regulations, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Customer Centricity, Data-Driven Decision Making, Data Gathering and Analysis, Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Interpersonal Influence, Leadership, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Medical Compliance, Mentorship, Performance Measurement, Problem Solving, Relationship Building, Research and Development, Scientific Communications, Strategic Thinking