Require Function Head in Medical Communication at Novartis

A global healthcare leader, Novartis has one of the most exciting product pipelines in the industry today. A pipeline of innovative medicines brought to life by diverse, talented and performance driven people. All of which makes them one of the most rewarding employers in their field.

Post : Function Head - Medical Communication

Job Description
Functional and Operational Leadership of a medical writing teams at Hyderabad providing medical communication documents for assigned disease areas to medical teams worldwide; management of delivery, quality control process, customer satisfaction, issue resolution, work flow process, people management and partnership with local support functions.

Major Accountabilities 
To manage and lead a Medical writing function to produce high quality scientific documents for designated disease areas, by providing leadership and implementing management control of the assigned team leaders. Major Activities (Describe main activities )
1. Leads the Worldwide medical writing function for designated Disease areas (50 – 70 FTEs) to ensure delivery of medical communication documents for the Global, regional and country organizations in GenMed, ensuring adherence to quality, timelines, and efficiency objectives

2. Monitors and report established KPIs & take proactive action to continuously strive for improvements. Manage the Service Level Agreements with customer stakeholder groups.
3. Ensures exemplary communication with all internal and external and global customers through regular local and global updates with focus on accomplishments, KPIs, best practice sharing's, staffing changes, etc.
4. Identifies and resolves operational issues, clearly articulate potential recommendations / solutions to local or global managers / partners; manages number of escalations
5. Aligns reporting and other cross-functional standards with other GMO function heads and work with customers towards its implementation.
6. Is proactive in planning; anticipating change and acting in accordance; drive meticulous implementation of team goals and metrics.
7. Recruits talent, manage performance (set objectives, review performance and plan compensation) and develop associates (development/training plans, Organizational Talent Review, coaching or mentoring, as appropriate). Set direction, align and motivate team members to achieve set goals and objectives.
8. Lead priority setting, workload distribution and resource planning to ensure adequate assignment of resource to projects. Develop and implement appropriate management control systems to ensure quality deliverables and adherence to process compliance.
9. Provides input into the budget process (for local India viewpoint) and ensure ongoing detailed cost reporting in line with the global and local policies / requirements.
10. Supports the development of functional and scientific excellence for identified brands by collaborating with other function heads and customers

Candidate Profile
M.Sc./M.Pharm / PHD/ Doctoral Degree or Qualification in Medical Sciences (MBBS/MD/equivalent) Excellent written and oral English 10+ in the Medical Communications business either in Pharma Industry or medical Communications agency. Experience in leading leaders Good understanding of work processes for medical communications.

Additional Information
Experience : 10+ years
Qualification : M.Pharm, M.Sc, Ph.D
Location : Hyderabad
Industry Type : Pharma/ Healthcare/ Clinical research
Functional Area : R&D
End Date : 30th October, 2018