IBU Medical Affairs Education Associate

Location: Cork, Ireland

Fixed-term contract for 12 months with views of permanency

Contingency contract hired by Bespoke Recruitment and work directly with our client

Salary: €55k DOE + annual bonus

Full-time position based on a hybrid model

Requirement: EU Passport or Stamp 4

Our client is a multinational pharmaceutical organization with a high name in this industry. They operate over 5 continents and sum up over 60 000 employees worldwide. This role will primarily focus on operational support for the International (IBU) Med Ed Portfolio Team who implement Med Ed solutions across Business Units.

Responsibilities:

Processes and tools:

Lead/develop processes and serve as the subject matter expert for Medical Education Third Party Organizations (TPOs) management.

Process owner for the IBU Review Process and act as a subject matter expert, suggesting and implementing improvements where needed.

Coordinate all international Med Ed sponsorship, and partnership contracts with key medical societies across therapy areas- Navigator between the MedEd Portfolio Team and legal, compliance, and procurement colleagues.

Design, implement, and maintain a process for Independent Sponsorship contracting.

Program implementation

Navigate between and in close collaboration with the Med Ed team and legal, compliance and procurement colleagues to ensure program requirements are met.

Lead development and coordination of best practices and key learning sharing for the MAE teams.

Contributes to the efficiency, productivity, and success of the Med Ed function by ensuring that vendors/providers meet or exceed their contractual obligations by delivering quality cost-effective solutions.

Oversee and manage updates to the client-led tactic project timelines, budget, etc..

Identify and remediate barriers to ensure program implementation success.

Requirements:

Bachelor’s Degree or Associate’s Degree

At least 1 year of pharma experience

Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Additional Preferences:

Highly motivated and able to operate independently of direct oversight

Experience with external partners

Strong verbal & written communication skills, a proactive communication style is required with the ability to communicate to any level of the organization effectively

Strong project management and organizational skills including the ability to prioritize multitask and manage multifaceted projects

Professional, solutions-focused, can-do mindset

Personal organization and time management, adaptability, flexibility and initiative

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite

Demonstrated strength in problem-solving skills

Demonstrated success working across multiple geographies, time zones, business units and/or molecules or similar complexity

Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority

Demonstrated ability to meet critical timelines

Proven ability to assemble, share and apply key learnings across multiple projects