Associate Director, Medical Affairs, Oncology

Job Description

We are looking for an Associate Director, Medical Affairs position to be responsible for the medical affairs team in Israel, responsible for Oncology. The Associate Medical Director is a non-promotional role which leads a team of Medical Affairs Manager/MSLs who engage in scientific exchange with healthcare professionals and scientists (HCPs), with emphasis on regional and national scientific leaders and key decision makers.

The Associate Medical Director is responsible for the team’s scientific activities and performance. Although the Medical Advisor is the owner of the strategic plan, the Associate Medical Director may also provide input and insight based on his/her team interaction with their SLs and other stakeholders’ engagements into the Medical Affairs strategy and ensure that it translates into concrete engagement (action) plans in the field.

The Associate Medical Director may also represent us in a range of local, national and international non-promotional Medical Affairs activities.

 

The job duties include the following:

• Budget Planning and Resource Management.
• Hires, manages, coaches and develops a group of Medical Affairs Managers/MSLs assigned to his/her therapeutic areas to ensure the highest quality scientific exchange in alignment with the Medical Affairs plan.
• Provides input into the therapeutic area Medical strategy led by the local Medical Affairs Managers.
• Ensures that there is adequate and compliant cross-functional collaboration between the Medical Affairs Managers/MSLs and internal stakeholders.
• Organizes regular team meetings for relevant trainings, sharing of best practices, reinforcing on compliance matters and discuss therapeutic area strategies.
• Develop his/her Medical affairs managers/MSLs’ functional and scientific skills.
• Establishes the annual performance objectives for his/her team.
• Conducts mid-year and year-end reviews of team performance.
• Develops and maintains up-to date scientific knowledge around relevant disease areas, products within those areas and research methodologies.
• Ensure optimal scientific leader management and support
• Develop medical strategy (including the Medical Affairs plan, MAPs)
• Align medical strategy with business unit/franchise-needs with marketing
• Responsible for the creation and timely execution of all Medical activities in his areas of responsibility including medical education, data generation activities etc...
• Responsible for close follow ups on all systems updates of the activities under his responsibility.
• Review and approve s MSL plans.
• Collaborate with GCTO and Market access around new products.
• Ensures that all Medical Affairs Managers/MSLs perform their duties in alignment with company SOPs/Guidelines and local laws and regulations.

Education Requirement:

• Medical degree (MD, PharmD, PhD).
• Post graduate medical degree is preferable.

Required Experience and Skills:

• Industry experience of 3 years minimum in Medical Affairs is a must and therapeutic area experience is desirable 
• Previous experience as a Medical Advisor/Medical Manager is required. 
• Strong knowledge of clinical research and scientific data generation is highly preferred.
• People management experience is preferred
• Demonstrated people or project management and team leadership skills, as well as listening and coaching skills, preferred
• Demonstrated ability to translate scientific strategy into tactical and implementation plans
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to create a working environment which fosters employee engagement
• Strong problem solving skills
• Strong ethics and integrity. 
• Ability to work in high performance teams, and in a matrix organization.  Ability to negotiate and influence others.
• Excellent team player; must excel at teamwork in cross-functional groups.  Must be able to interact successfully with a variety of individuals at the local level, including Medical Advisors working in different therapeutic areas, commercial teams and contract research organizations (CROs).

Required Skills:

Adaptability, Adaptability, Budget Management, Clinical Development, Clinical Marketing, Clinical Research, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), Healthcare Education, Market Access, Market Landscape Analysis, Medical Affairs, Meeting Facilitation, Oncology, Oncology Marketing, Oral Communications, People Leadership, Pharmaceutical Industry, Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs, Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacotherapeutics, Pharmacotherapy, Scientific Communications, Scientific Data Management {+ 2 more}

Preferred Skills:

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Regular

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Job Posting End Date:

09/1/2026

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