Medical Affairs Director, Italy Lazio

Medical Affairs Director, Italy
Roma
Lazio, Lazio

Location(s)**: Rome, Italy

**Level of position**:Director

**Position type**: Office-based, in alignment with BlueFlex model

**Reporting Line**:VP Medical Affairs, International

**How will your role help us transform hope into reality?

At Blueprint Medicines, we are creating a blueprint for the future of healthcare - embracing a personalized medicine revolution by focusing on delivering new medicines that are targeted to the genetic driver of disease.

We do this by leveraging our one-of-a-kind drug discovery platform to discover, develop and work to bring highly selective kinase inhibitors to patients globally.

This prolific scientific platform has enabled Blueprint Medicines to build a pipeline of novel therapies that span three distinct areas of medicine; genomically defined cancers, rare diseases and cancer immunotherapy.

Reporting to the VP Medical Affairs International and dotted line to the VP & General Manager Italy & Iberia the Medical Affairs Director Italy your mission will be to improve and extend life for as many people with cancer and hematological and allergic disorders as possible.

**What will you do?

**Be a true Leader for Italy**:

- Co-owns the brand strategy together with commercial and market access leads for Italy

- will set and execute the strategy for the Italian medical team and the field-based Medical Science (MSL) team in alignment with International Medical Affairs Strategy to ensure MSL performance to goals.

- will be challenged to foster top class dynamic and nimble field teams that allow for local decision making, autonomy and flexibility while maintaining the MSLs as the vital link for effective Medical Affairs activities in the field.

- will manage the business practices, policies and general operations for Medical Affairs team such as educational and research programs.

- is member of the Italy & Iberia Leadership Team as well as of the International Medical Affairs Leadership Team.

- is responsible to comply with all obligations defined by local laws and regulations.

***Medical affairs Responsibilities**:

- Italy scientific leader, responsible for the generation and communication of scientific data and ensuring that all Medical Affairs activities are conducted with utmost integrity and compliance.

- Contribute to the alignment of medical strategies with commercial and communication plans.

- Support resource and budget planning and management to ensure the medical needs and opportunities are met in alignment with commercial.

- Guarantees conduct of medical and scientific activities according to all relevant regulations and Blueprint SOPs and by closely liaising with the global and international regulatory affairs teams.

- Actively supports the Italian commercial organization to educate the scientific and medical value of Blueprint's products.

- Develop the Country Medical plan and implement local medical initiatives to foster disease awareness, fulfil unmet patient need and build on external scientific interest (e. g.

compassionate use programs or investigator-initiated trials).

- Provides input into development of local marketing material and is accountable for medical approval of all marketing and sales strategies and programs to ensure the highest degree of medical and ethical standards, in compliance with corporate standards and government/industry regulations.

- Works closely with local, regional and global market access colleagues on strong price and reimbursement dossiers that will be tested extensively with medical experts and national leaders who may also have to represent it to reimbursement authorities.

- Alignment with the Global and EU/International team on plans and processes.

- Actively supports upcoming launches by the means of Blueprint Medicines company sponsored symposia and other activities.

**HCP (health care provider) outreach**:

- Establish and maintain strong relationships with KOLs, HCPs and PI's on behalf of BPM in all relevant areas.

- Drives engagement of HCPs, professional societies and other key customers, including patients advocacy groups.

- Fosters the establishment and maintenance of local scientific advisory boards, round tables, expert meetings and scientific advocacy development.

**Clinical trial support**:

- Closely liaises with Clinical development-, Clinical Operations

- and Global Medical Affairs teams to review and supervise local clinical programs.

Support investigator/selection management.

Ensures a strategic approach to such programs, and the development of clinical data to support the appropriate use of the Company's products.

- Works with colleagues of Blueprint Medicines International headquarter in Zug and other countries in the international region to ensure consistency of clinical programs from a medical perspective.

- Ensures that Investigator Initiated Research studies are in line with the global strategy.

Helps to detect need for and enables Real World Evidence generation when required for advancing ther