Global Head, Medical Affairs

Vor 3 Tagen

Zug, Schweiz Covis Pharma Vollzeit

**COMPANY AND ROLE OVERVIEW**

Founded in 2011, Covis Pharma is a private equity backed global specialty pharmaceutical company that markets therapeutic solutions in 50+ countries, for patients with life-threatening conditions and chronic illnesses. Our paramount concern is patient’s outcomes as we focus on improving the health of people with serious medical conditions. Apollo Global Management is the private equity sponsor of Covis Pharma.

We are seeking a seasoned and experienced individual to join us as the global leader of our Medical Affairs organization. This opportunity presents a unique challenge to establish the global medical affairs function by leveraging the heritage of our product portfolio and establishing a platform for future acquisitions and development projects, while simultaneously building a new, unique culture focused on growth, profitability, and long-term vision. What you can expect from this role is the opportunity to work in a start-up type environment where your position will be broad and hands-on, communication between departments is fast and effective and you will have significant responsibility and autonomy for your work and contribution. Covis is highly acquisitive of both commercial and late-stage development assets in the US, EU, and International.

You describe yourself as self-motivated and proactive in taking initiative. You can work efficiently on your own as well as in cross-functional teams. You have a proven record in defining medical affairs strategies and successfully launching and market products with differentiated medical-scientific positioning.

**SCOPE OF RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- With the COO, creation, development, and implementation of medical affairs and patient access strategies across all therapeutics areas and geographies.
- Provide global leadership and oversight of the regional medical teams; serve as a player-coach as required.
- Partner with regional medical affairs teams to ensure medical plans are developed in alignment with global medical strategy.
- Partner with key stakeholders to define operating principles to guide evidence-based medical affairs activities and ensure all activities are compliant with local laws and regulations.
- Identifies, analyze, and prioritize stakeholders for new and existing products.
- Establishing a process to frequently assess an effective global medical affairs field impact.
- Set performance metrics for regional medical teams, ensuring effective execution of regional medical plans in alignment with global medical strategy.
- Provide medical expertise as needed to assist in the development and execution of compliant commercial activities.
- Represent global medical affairs at the Global Leadership Team and contribute to the development of regional strategy.
- Partner with M&A team and clinical trial functions to provide medical affairs input on new targets, clinical trial design and support clinical trial enrollment.
- Supports due diligence efforts as required by the business development team in evaluating qualitatively and quantitively acquisition opportunities.

**FUNCTIONAL/TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS**:

- Strong understanding of the medical affairs environment, including launch excellence, field hybrid excellence, digital capabilities, and medical analytics.
- Command of medical affairs dynamics by geography with ability to translate into medical-scientific differentiation and market impact.
- Experience managing clinical stage programs and with NDA/MAA submissions/approval processes is a plus.
- High working ethics and integrity.
- Ability to work cross-functionally.
- Ability to work with a wide variety of external stakeholders and represent Covis’ interests towards third parties.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with outstanding communication and collaboration skills.

**WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?**
- Strong operational background and successful product launch experience at local and/or global level.
- Demonstrated ability to be creative / think “outside-the-box.”
- Strong organizational and project management skills with demonstrated ability to successfully drive projects to completion.
- Strong financial capabilities.
- Working commercial experience with specialty care/hospital products.
- Ability to operate effectively in a multi-tasking, dynamic environment, while maintaining focus and a forward-thinking, customer centric attitude.
- Strong cross-functional mindset and experience in matrix management.
- Entrepreneurial spirit; comfortable with rapid change, resource constraints, and the need to be flexible about roles.
- Strong understanding of the medical affairs environment, including launch excellence and field hybrid excellence.

**OUR OFFER TO YOU**:
By joining Covis Pharma you will be a part of a dynamic and energized team where you will be able to provide input into impactful decisions and be a part of shaping our company’s future. The skills and business insight you gain will serve

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