Therapy Area Specialist

Merck Gruppe - MSD Sharp & Dohme; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Merck Gruppe - MSD Sharp & Dohme is seeking a Therapy Area Specialist in Malaysia to engage with oncology healthcare professionals, share in-depth disease and product knowledge, and support therapy area strategy with cross-functional teams. The role involves speaker programs, educational talks, and contribution to marketing materials.

The candidate should have a life sciences degree and 2+ years’ experience with HCPs, along with a solid understanding of the healthcare landscape and compliance

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level or higher degree in life sciences or pharmacy.
• 2+ years of experience working with healthcare professionals.
• Strong understanding of healthcare environment trends and compliance landscape.
• Ability to translate complex clinical and product information for broad audiences.

Responsibilities

• Engage with physicians, pharmacists, nurses and other HCPs to discuss disease areas and products.
• Support development and execution of marketing strategies and promotional materials.
• Coordinate speaker programs and educational talks for healthcare stakeholders.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet customer information needs in a timely manner.
• Contribute to account planning and field-facing training to accelerate value delivery.

Skills

Customer engagement

Brand strategy

Cross-functional teamwork

Marketing communications

Event planning

Speaker programs

Medical education talks

Education

Degree in life sciences

Job description

Job Description

Therapy Area Specialist

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

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Employee Status: Regular

Flexible Work Arrangements: Hybrid

Job Posting End Date: 09/30/2026

Requisition ID: R393232