Business Affairs Associate

Job Title: Medical Affairs Clinical Associate (Graduate) Job Type: 12 Months Fixed Term Contract Employment Start Date: ASAP Mon – Fri (35 hours a week) This will be a hybrid role, with minimum 12 days per month on site Industry: Pharmaceuticals holidays, sick pay, pension An excellent opportunity for a talented graduate to start a career in medical affairs with a global healthcare leader, Novartis has one of the most exciting product pipelines in the industry today. Our mission is to improve patients' lives by providing customers with innovative science and differentiated healthcare solutions delivered by diverse and engaged talent with integrity, passion and focus on performance. At Novartis, creativity and diversity are encouraged, impact is recognised, success is celebrated, and people feel valued and listened to. This role will be working within the Medical Affairs team. The role is responsible for coordinating the review of unsolicited requests, in collaboration with relevant therapy area medical team, and ensuring the relevant documentation is in place prior to the provision of drug supply once suitably trained. It is anticipated the role will also work in other areas of medical affairs and flexibility will be required. Collaborate with medical team to address external queries and send out formal MAP communications to doctors and pharmacists as applicable Support MAP lead/manager and medical team in the provision of accurate MAP reports and metrics, maintain drug supply and patient trackers, and input to process improvement Support MAP lead/manager to manage drug supply inventory and management of accurate forecasting in collaboration with MAP, liaise with relevant teams to ensure drug supply is imported into the UK in a timely manner and liaise with external vendor to ensure local labelling, packaging and distribution of supply needs In collaboration with MAP Lead/manager, ensure transition of patients from IMP supply to commercial supply and/or NHS commissioned supply, as applicable Dependent on experience, interests and business need may take on additional or alternative accountabilities within other medical affairs teams Development opportunities Educated in Medicine, or Pharmacy (completed pre-registration pharmacy exams) Experience within UK healthcare and /or pharmaceuticals environment is an advantage, but not necessary. Clear motivation and ambition to gain experience in a medical affair environment. Ability to evidence skills which are transferrable to the business environment (e.g., good time management, teamwork) experience of successfully working with teams through work, academic and/or extracurricular activities. Proactivity – ability to work independently and proactively under own initiative, taking responsibility and driving projects and activities to a successful conclusion. Analytical thinking – can understand and use complex data and can communicate complex data to a wide range of professional and lay audiences, adapting their wording and style to suit. Customer focused mindset - delivering high quality projects and activities to internal and external groups with awareness and responsiveness to their needs. Fluency in English - verbal and written – is required. You will be IT savvy and highly proficient with Microsoft office (Outlook, Excel, PPT skills and Word at Advanced Level) This placement is based in White City in London, and we would like you to be in the office a minimum of 12 days per month, to aid your development in working with and learning from your team.