Field Medical Advisor Spain

Updated: March 14, 2025
Location: Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Job ID: 8577

You are a listener, an educator and a gifted cultivator of new and exciting opportunities grounded in science?

The Field Medical Advisor (FMA) serves as the primary field-based point of contact with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), Healthcare Providers (HCPs) including clinical investigators on a range of clinical and scientific issues. The primary role is to deliver and facilitate medical education and communications, research, and scientific insight gathering activities of the client. This includes the provision of scientific and medical data on both licensed and unlicensed client products and indications as permissible by local laws and regulations.

The FMA identifies, develops, and maintains long-term collaborative partnerships with external clinical and scientific experts and institutions to provide support for current and future client portfolio activities.

They will ensure effective communication and collaboration across a multifunctional client team including other Medical Affairs colleagues as well as commercial and Market Access to meet client and healthcare provider needs and ultimately ensure the best patient care in an efficient and compliant manner.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and maintains outstanding knowledge of relevant disease area topics
• Develops and maintains outstanding knowledge of client products, competitor products, and other therapeutic options within the therapeutic area
• Collaborates with the cross-functional team to ensure the best patient care
• Maintains an in-depth understanding of the medical strategy and broader client strategy to ensure their own activities are coordinated with the team and aligned to the clients strategy
• Collaborates with Cluster (and Country Medical Leads) for the development and execution of the field medical strategy for the product and disease area
• Maintains and develops synergistic relationships with KOLs to expand research, advisory, and educational partnership opportunities
• Works to the highest ethical compliance, ethics and safety standards adhering to all local regulations and laws
• Engages with cross-functional team to ensure activities are coordinated with the team and aligned to client strategy
• Initiates and leads the implementation of medical projects, e.g. Medical Advisory Board meetings, Medical Education, (patient) care innovation projects
• Provides scientific congress coverage and support (national and international) for client planned activities
• Serves as external, credible scientific expert on disease area and client products at HCP field meetings, key medical and scientific conferences, advisory boards, clinical investigator meetings and patient advocacy group meetings
• Responds to unsolicited requests for medical information on client products in a credible, balanced/objective manner
• Proactively engages with HCP community to provide medical education as permissible by local laws and regulations
• Provides effective clinical presentations to internal and external audiences and tailors presentations to meet specific audience needs
• Supports Early Access Programmes (EAPs)
• Identifies and maps HCPs and networks/referral patterns
• Identifies key field insights related to client products, activities and the disease area and effectively disseminates and collaborates with cross-functional partners
• Supports clinical operations in trial site identification
• Facilitates clear communication between the client and investigators in investigator engagement for both client-sponsored and investigator-sponsored studies and addresses barriers to enrolment for pipeline assets
• Identifies and supports local data generation activities

Requirements:

• MSL/FMA experience
• Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD) or professionally qualified (physician, nurse, pharmacist). Exceptional candidates with MSc considered.
• Experience within disease area (as part of academia or in industry)
• Knowledge of clinical research design and GCP in the disease area.
• Demonstrates strong understanding of clinical research trial design and study analysis including cost effectiveness and other high-level HEOR evidence approaches
• Demonstrates strong understanding of local healthcare systems and treatment guidelines
• Demonstrates ability to develop trust and maintain integrity with KOLs/External Clinical and Scientific Experts, investigators, HCPs, and institutions, as well as with peers and others.
• Demonstrates knowledge of relevant laws and regulations to role
• Excellent presentation and communication skills
• Ability to convey complex scientific concepts and information appropriately tailored to the audience e.g., affiliate staff and regional/global Medical Affairs leadership
• Portuguese and Spanish speaking candidates preferred (mandatory)

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Why Syneos Health? Each life we positively impact makes our work worthwhile. By joining one of our field medical teams, you will partner with some of the most talented clinicians in the industry and be reminded why you chose a career in healthcare. The diversification and breadth of our new and existing partnerships create a multitude of career paths and employment opportunities. Join our game-changing, global company dedicated to creating better, smarter, faster ways to get biopharmaceutical therapies to patients. Experience the thrill of knowing that your everyday efforts are contributing to improving patients' lives around the world.

Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

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