Therapeutic Area Partner - Neuroscience - Jeddah

Bristol Myers Squibb; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Bristol Myers Squibb seeks a Therapeutic Area Partner - Neuroscience in Jeddah to engage Health Care Professionals, promote NS brands, and advance formulary access. The role focuses on scientifically exchanging information, maintaining deep disease/product knowledge, and delivering tailored territory plans with KOLs and physicians.

Applicants should be Saudi nationals with SCFHS license, a pharmacology degree, and 3+ years in multinational pharma, preferably with specialty care and psychiatry

Qualifications

• Saudi national with valid SCFHS license is a must.
• Pharmacist degree with pharmaceutical experience is required.
• 3+ years in a multinational pharma company, preferably with specialty care experience.
• Psychiatry experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience with thought leaders and experts in the field.

Responsibilities

• Promote BMS Neuroscience brands to Health Care Professionals.
• Maintain disease and product knowledge.
• Develop territory plans and targeting strategies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address customer needs.
• Support formulary enlisting and access initiatives.
• Build relationships with KOLs, physicians and pharmacists.
• Deliver scientific programs and ensure compliance with policies.

Skills

Scientific communication

Cross-functional collaboration

English proficiency

Customer engagement

MS Office

Education

Pharmacist degree

SCFHS license

Job description

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

The Therapeutic Area Partner - Neuroscience - Jeddah (TAP) role is a field-based role with aim of providing scientific exchange, promoting and enlisting BMS products in his/her respective therapeutic area and assigned territory. TAP will be the primary point of contact for Health Care Professionals (HCPs), thus generating overall higher HCP engagement in a timely manner. In addition, the TAP is expected to interact with a broader sphere of stakeholders beyond treating physicians (clinical pharmacist, Echo technicians, HEOR expert, multiple disciplinary team, etc…). This role will prioritize the safe and appropriate use of BMS products, all while focusing on overall performance objectives and exemplifying BMS values.

It is anticipated that a TAP will spend a minimum of 90% of the time in the field with HCPs including interactions and activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote BMS Neuroscience (NS) brands through appropriate delivery of scientific message to the Health Care Professionals.
• Maintain a high level of disease expertise and product knowledge.
• Understand the treatment landscape including mapping of HCPs and prepare to address their information needs.
• Understand knowledge and care gaps in territory and implement educational programs to address HCP needs.
• Prepare and successfully implement a comprehensive territory plan as per the agreed metrics and KPIs.
• Define and prioritize customer targets by conducting proper profiling and segmentation.
• Ensure ultimate accountability for achieving results of mutually agreed business objectives by identifying and managing customers within distinct segments and execute tailored plans.
• Build and maintain strong business partnerships with key stakeholders in all accounts; i.e. KOLs, physicians and pharmacists, in order to position BMS as a strategic partner.
• Demonstrate deep marketplace ,therapeutic ,product and disease expertise based on thorough understanding of disease area.
• Effectively prepare for presentation and discussion of information to HCPs and be able to respond to questions, while ensuring medical accuracy.
• Develop account business plans that meets market and customer business needs
• Support formulary enlisting process. Initiate, develop and implement tactical plans for scaling up products penetration in coordination with the access, medical, marketing teams and ensure products’ availability to all potential prescribers & Accounts.
• Collaborate closely with cross functional team members to identify and resolve customer needs appropriately and with high sense of urgency.
• Collect and provide meaningful medical insights back to the internal team to be actioned in support of the strategy development.
• Understand & develop Patient Journey per hospital to identify access barriers and facilitate the formulary enlisting.
• Build strong working relationships with key external and internal stakeholders in order to fully understand HCPs challenges and concerns in a complex access environment.
• Deliver scientifically meaningful programs regarding the diseases and ensure flawless execution of activities to support overarching plan.
• Support pre-launch and launch activities of new products as and when needed.
• Works to the highest levels of integrity and compliance, adhering to BMS Standards of Business Conduct and Ethics at all times &ensure full compliance with laws, regulations.

Qualifications

• Saudi national with valid SCFHS license is a must.
• Pharmacist with relevant pharmaceutical experience.

Experience

• Recommended to have 3+ years of experience in a multinational pharmaceutical company including speciality care brands experience.
• Psychaitry experience is strongly preferred.
• Having a diversified experience in governmental and private health care system.
• Proven experience of working with Thought Leaders and experts in their field.
• Very good knowledge of customer segmentation and targeting process.

Skills

• Demonstrates capacity to acquire scientific information.
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively cross-functionally and independently.
• Resources allocation expertise working with multiple customer segments.
• Demonstrated excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Basic knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and familiar with internet and e-mail.
• Excellent command of English Language.

Other

• Located in Jeddah

We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

How We Work

Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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