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Medical Sales Representative

As a Medical sales representitive you are the face of the company communicating product information to prescribing doctors in hospitals and General Practioners (GPs) and increasingly in todays environment Nurses. This role is a very challenging position that requires very good communication skills and tenacity as you will often have to overcome objections and also know your products very well. Sales Representitves also need to have a very good knowledge of the ABPI code of practice and will often sit the ABPI qualification.

A lot of travelling is involved in this role and you will need to be very patient as you will often have to wait for long periods to meet doctors as your visits are sometime perceived to be inconvienient so creativity and an ability to develop a good relationship with them are very important qualities.

Medical Sales can be a very rewarding role that provides a very good starting point for people entering the pharmaceutical industry with some of the industries leading CEO’s having started their lives as Medical Sales Representatives.

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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