Therapy Area Specialist

MSD; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MSD Malaysia is seeking a Therapy Area Specialist to lead in-field marketing for oncology, with deep disease and brand knowledge to enable impactful discussions with healthcare professionals and support therapy area strategy with the cross-functional team.

You will engage customers, facilitate speaker programs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help develop promotional materials and conference content in line with HQ guidelines.

Qualifications

• Degree in life sciences or pharmacy.
• Experience working with HCPs or in healthcare environments.
• Understanding of healthcare industry trends and compliance.
• Ability to convey complex clinical information to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Engage customers with disease, treatment, and brand knowledge to support discussions with healthcare stakeholders.
• Facilitate speaker programs and clinical talks for education updates.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address information needs.
• Contribute to development of promotional materials and conference content.
• Support planning and execution of marketing tactics aligned with brand strategy.
• Train and mentor customer-facing colleagues and onboard new members.
• Travel within Malaysia as needed.
• Contribute to account planning with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Biological Sciences

Brand Strategy

Customer Engagement

Market Development

Marketing

Product Management

Stakeholder Management

Teamwork

Marketing Communications

Life Science

Market Research

Direct Marketing

Sales Services

Education

Life sciences degree

Pharmacy degree

Job description

Therapy Area Specialist

A Therapy Area Specialist role, an in-field marketing role, excels in disease and brand knowledge to enable in-depth discussion with oncology customers, and supports therapy area strategy development & execution in close collaboration with oncology cross-functional team.

WHAT YOU WILL DO (it is included but not limited as below mentioned)

Customer engagement

• Demonstrate in-depth disease, treatment, indication and brand knowledge (including patient pathway, stakeholder mapping) to enable impactful discussion with customers on demand, ensuring service standard are met based on HQ marketing guideline
• Facilitate speaker programs and peer-to-peer clinical experience sharing programs; conduct educational talks to physician groups, and other healthcare stakeholders (e.g. pharmacists, nurses) for product education updates and with HCPs
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Professional Sales Representatives, in customer engagement to ensure customers’ information needs are addressed timely

Marketing execution and strategy support

• Document and provide customer insights to cross-functional teams and contribute to key decision maker identification & mapping and brand strategy development
• Support marketing in the development of promotional material, leveraging customer insights gained through customer interactions
• Create contents for local and international conferences, forums, speaker programs etc. in accordance to HQ marketing guidelines
• Support marketing tactic planning and execution in alignment with brand strategy (event planning and execution, etc.)
• Support market shaping effort aligned to brand strategy

Other Internal Support

• Provide regular internal disease, treatment, indication training to cross-functional team and onboard new customer facing members
• Contribute to development & execution of account plans in collaboration with cross functional team to deliver impactful strategies that accelerate value for company

What You Must Have

• Degree in life sciences, preferably an university pharmacy degree
• 2 or more years’ experience working with HCPs, ideally representing multiple products and working across a complex healthcare system environment
• Good understanding of healthcare environment trends
• Understanding of industry legal, regulatory and compliance landscape
• Ability to assimilate and communicate complex clinical and product information to broad audience of different level of technical expertise
• Experience in building long term customer relationships and advocacy development
• Ability to train and mentor customer facing team
• Ability to seek out relevant information, prioritize, and apply information to solve complex problems in the ecosystem in a timely manner
• Ability to work in a cross-functional environment and able to collaborate with other team members to provide best support to customers

Required Skills

• Biological Sciences
• Biological Sciences
• Brand Strategy
• Calendar Planning
• Customer Collaborations
• Customer Engagement
• Customer Relationship Building
• Customer Service Management
• Direct Marketing
• Healthcare Marketing
• Life Science
• Market Development
• Marketing
• Marketing Communications (MarCom)
• Marketing Management
• Marketing Strategies
• Market Research
• Poultry Management
• Pricing Strategies
• Product Management
• Promotional Design
• Sales Services
• Segmentation Strategy
• Stakeholder Management
• Teamwork {+ 2 more}

Secondary Language(s) Job Description

This person will be required to travel within Malaysia

Employee Status

Regular

Flexible Work Arrangements

Hybrid

Job Posting End Date

09/30/2026

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Requisition ID

R393232