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Medical Information

The Medical information department is becoming increasingly important to lots of organisations. Working within this department you will act as a source of information about the companies products to internal and external enquiries. You will be an expert on your particular products and will commonly be dealing with telephone enquiries from Medical practitioners, Pharmacists, the general public and Medical Sales Reps amongst others. You will often have to do the research to find the answers to questions from journals and supporting literature. Some roles can be field based and require you to deal with enquiries face to face.

In addition to fielding questions you will also be responsible for training your medical sales representatives. You will also play an active role in approving the promotional material for your products so a sound knowledge of the ABPI code of practice is highly beneficial.

Some roles may also require you to work very closely with or take up some responsibility for Pharmacovigilance.

Medical Information officers are often Pharmacists. You will have to have very strong communication skills both written and verbally and an ability to prioritise and respond to enquiried promptly.

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Job of the week - Senior Contract Regulatory Professional

Our client is a leading Pharmaceutical company. This R&D group have a large and dynamic European Regulatory Affairs Department responsible for the regulatory affairs work for the CNS R&D in Europe, Turkey, CEE region, Israel, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.

The work has several aspects;

  • Communication to the Global Regulatory Teams and the supporting functions for regulatory submissions, such as clinical;
  • Working with the local operating companies within the^allocated region and external communication to regulatory authorities in the regions and to the EMEA. The group covers both developmental compounds not yet licensed and the maintenance and further development of marketed products. The prime responsibility for compounds is with the European Regulatory Liaison (EURL) who is responsible for the regulatory activities in the region and inputs to the global regulatory aspects for the compound.Regulatory consultants will work for an EURL or a global regulatory leader in the CNS therapeutic area or in the mature products area. They will work on the practical aspects of the compounds assigned from clinical trial applications (CTA’s), ASR’s, requests for scientific advice, MAA preparation, variations, renewals, PSURs etc depending on the life cycle of the compounds assigned. They may work on one or several compounds depending upon the work required for any compound at the time. Their work will be assigned and monitored by the EURL or theglobal regulatory lead responsible for the consultant.Eligibility to work in the EEA is required