Are you keen to join a supportive team in cutting edge Medical Oncology?
A global healthcare leader, Novartis Oncology has one of the most exciting product pipelines in the industry today. A channel of innovative medicines brought to life by diverse, talented, performance driven people. Novartis has been certified as one of the Top Employers in the United Kingdom. At Novartis, creativity and diversity are encouraged, effort is recognised, success is celebrated and people feel valued and listened to.
This is an exciting opportunity for a graduate Pharmacist (who has completed their pre-registration year and is registered with the RPS) or a Doctor who has completed their Foundation year(s) (with full GMC registration) seeking a career within the pharmaceutical industry. Novartis view these opportunities as an investment in future talent.
This is a role within the Medical Oncology Team and would suit an innovative individual who can make the job their own, build their knowledge to become an expert, be proactive in developing and sharing new ideas, make things happen and who is willing to take responsibility for their own work.
* Degree / relevant disciplines: GRADUATES only: - Pharmacy or Medicine
Job Accountabilities
The successful candidate will join the Oncology Medical Team and will be responsible for supporting medical activities such as advisory boards, medical education meetings and data generation projects. In addition they will review promotional materials, produced by the commercial team, to check the scientific integrity of the product claims. The Junior Scientific Advisor will need to review clinical/scientific data and ensure that the information we give to health care professionals enables them to understand the benefits and risks of our drugs and make evidence-based decisions for the good of their patients.
Working in the Novartis medical affairs team involves a high degree of collaboration with different functions: Commercial, Market Access and Clinical trial teams to name but a few.
Novartis cultivate an inclusive and engaging high-performance environment that values and leverage's diversity.
Relevant Qualifications and Registrations:
Life Sciences degree and pre - registration pharmacy exams completed.
Skills - We are looking for an individual who can meet the following criteria:
- Proactivity - taking responsibility and driving projects and activities to a successful conclusion.
- Innovation - looking to innovate or adapt ideas to find better solutions
- Collaboration - working within cross-functional, cross-divisional and occasionally European and Global teams
- Customer focused - delivering projects and activities to internal and external groups, ensuring pro-activity, awareness and responsiveness to their needs
- Results focused - achieving goals and contributing to cross-functional teams
- Change agility - keeping abreast of new data and the changing healthcare environment
- Communication - of complex data to a wide range of professional and lay audiences, adapting their wording and style to suit
- Attention to detail - able to work accurately, efficiently and in an organised manner
- Leadership - having the presence to focus, motivate and lead a team to achieve a shared goal
The successful candidates will benefit from:
- Open door, approachable culture at all levels
- Team oriented atmosphere
- Good work, life balance
- Cutting edge science
- International workforce
- Talent development from within
- Making a difference to patients' lives
Additional Information
Please ensure that you are willing and able to live within commutable distance of the company site before applying. This placement is located in White City, West London. Guidant are managing the recruitment for this placement at our client's request.
Guidant is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
