Do you have experience working in Medical Affairs or as a Medical Advisor in the field of Pneumococcal and Pediatric Vaccines? Do you want to work with the state of the art vaccines in Belgium? Don't hesitate and apply today !
Job Description
The Medical Advisor Pneumococcal and Pediatric Vaccines will be responsible for working with pneumococcal and pediatric vaccines in Belgium for the replacement of a maternity leave from 01Jul2025 to 31Dec2025. He/she has strong scientific knowledge of the therapeutic domain and demonstrates excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills. The Medical Advisor will support the policy stakeholders in the submission of tender dossiers by providing support on the scientific part of the dossier.
He/she will follow-up on ongoing projects and studies and will engage in non-promotional scientific exchange with health care professionals to provide accurate, relevant and balanced data when needed.
The Medical Advisor will develop the country medical affairs plan for 2026 and provides strategic input to internal stakeholders based on medical knowledge and insights from scientific exchange. Communication and education, sharing, presenting and generating data in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders internally and externally are key in this role with the patient as the ultimate beneficiary. In this role the contractor will report into the Therapeutic Area Lead Vaccines and Infectious Diseases.
Responsibilities
- Support external affairs and policy stakeholders with the writing of reimbursement and tender dossiers by providing the latest relevant medical and scientific updates
- Connect with the RDMA to help to address data gaps and request advice
- Understand positioning of vaccines in the landscape and provide medical strategic input to commercial, access, clinical and regulatory stakeholders accordingly;
- Review of dossiers for scientific accuracy
- Non-promotional scientific exchange with health care professionals to provide accurate, relevant and balanced data when needed
- Collect, collate and analyze insights from a variety of stakeholders to identify unmet needs and data gaps and to provide medical strategic input to commercial, access, clinical and regulatory stakeholders accordingly
- Develop the local Medical Affairs Plan (MAP) and execute strategically aligned tactics & activities for 2026
- Follow-up of investigator initiated studies & local data-generating studies
- Collaborating with local Global Clinical Trial Operations (GCTO) management and investigators to identify opportunities to implement new phase 2 and 3 studies in the country
Requirements
- MD, PharmD or PhD Life Sciences
- Passion for the therapeutic areas of interest; strong scientific knowledge in vaccines (preferably pneumococcal and/or pediatric);
- Experience in collaborating and writing of reimbursement and tender dossiers
- Experience as a medical advisor or medical affairs manager
- Sound scientific and clinical judgment, understanding of clinical trials methods, implementation and interpretation of clinical data
- Persistent and down-to-earth
- Strong leadership skills: A proactive "can do" attitude and hands-on mentality; eager to continue to learn more
- Strong customer facing, listening, and probing skills
- Able to simultaneously handle multiple tasks and working under pressure
- Strong analytical skills, meticulous and eye for detail
- Compliance and quality mindset; compliant with business Integrity and Ethics standards
- Strong, confident and engaging presentation and communication skills
- Outstanding communication skills and strong interpersonal skills with a wide range of stakeholders
- Excellent project and budget management skills
- Ability to function within a diverse team environment; Action-oriented matrix networker across different departments and corporate cultures
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English, French and Dutch
