Medical Advisor
About this opportunity
Career Category
Medical Affairs
Job Description
Medical Advisor
Hong Kong
Live
What you will do
Amgen is one of the world’s leading independent biotechnology companies. For over 4 decades, Amgen has pioneered biotechnology breakthroughs, to bring state-of-the-art medicines from laboratory to the patient. Amgen has not only discovered and developed innovative human therapeutics, but has invested in cutting edge manufacturing capability and support services to deliver these exciting therapies to medical teams around the world. Japan and Asia Pacific (JAPAC) is the fastest growing region in Amgen. Now we are hiring a Medical Advisor in Hong Kong.
Accountabilities
The Medical Advisor is a point of medical contact for their allocated product(s). The Medical Advisor leads adaptation of global/regional strategy to reflect local/regional priorities for their product(s) and/or supports execution of those strategies to maximize Amgen's value proposition of inline and pipeline products in alignment with product strategies.
Responsibilities
Support development and execution of patient-focused medical strategies that maximize the value proposition of Amgen's therapies including annual strategic planning and goal setting, launch support and lifecycle management, in collaboration with Regional Medical TA Head and local TA medical scientific liaison, appropriate cross-functional teams and governance
Contribute to cross functional stakeholder teams in shaping the healthcare ecosystem by enabling access to medicines through evidence generation, communication and education of medical and economic value
Synthesize and integrate insights to deliver medical inputs into relevant cross-regional/functional strategies, including relevant brand strategy
Contribute to strategy development for scientific engagement across a broad range of stakeholders to strengthen external understanding of the unmet need and value of the product
Lead/support relationships with external healthcare community, including interactions with opinion leaders, payers and societies for scientific exchange, where appropriate
Develop/support and lead/support execution of the strategy for medical evidence generation that shapes our products and informs the practice of medicine ensuring key needs are met in alignment with global product medical and relevant brand strategy
Foster Amgen‘s reputation as a science-based, innovative and patient-focused reliable partner
Develop and/or contribute to execution of advocacy plans and strategies in partnership with internal stakeholders and lead relationships as appropriate
Partner with/support Global Regulatory Affairs and Safety (GRAAS) in risk management/minimization activities and ensure communication of the implications to internal/external stakeholders
Member and Medical representative of relevant leadership, governance and cross functional teams
May develop and manage medical product budget
Ensure conduct of medical activities in full compliance of all laws, regulations and SOPs
Ensure product/disease state/pipeline specific medical training where appropriate, may deliver training to others
Ensure appropriate clinical trial conduct as a key medical interface in close partnership with Global Development Operations (eg Site Management)
Provide strategic input into labels/regulatory/reimbursement/policy/promotional used to support internal/external interactions
Determine scientific/medical subject matter appropriateness of labels/regulatory/reimbursement/policy/promotional and medical deliverables (eg, slide decks, publications, educational activities) used to support internal/external interactions via appropriate review process
Contribute to strategy development for, review, approve and ensure dissemination of, medical communications and related activities (eg, product narrative, scientific platform, core content, publications including FPR/FLR, medical education and congresses)
Provide support and leadership of advisory boards and other relevant meetings (eg, investigator meetings, and/or expert panels)
Lead/support the development of data interpretation, analysis and communication for medical executed studies
Provide decision on IME, Donations, medical grants and sponsorships, where appropriate
Utilize global infrastructure for tracking, measuring and evaluating performance and ensure continuous performance improvement
Understand the expectations of key external stakeholders to support appropriate access to Amgen therapies.
In partnership with cross-functional team, ensure informed budget/resource trade-offs, as appropriate
Facilitates Investigator Sponsored Studies through Amgen governance and manage study lifecycle (including communicating with investigators, as appropriate and ensuring accurate reporting of key milestone data)
Contribute to lifecycle management plan
Win
What we expect of you
Minimum Requirements
Doctorate degree & 3 years of directly related experience
Bachelor’s degree & 5 years of directly related experience
Preferred Requirements
Demonstrated ability as a medical expert in a complex matrix environment
Pharmaceutical product development, product lifecycle and commercialization process knowledge with understanding of other functions; including, but not limited to, Clinical Operations, Commercial, Safety, Regulatory, Value & Access, and Medical Affairs
Product/therapeutic area knowledge
Experience in regional/local medical practice and healthcare ecosystems
Skilled at engagement, scientific exchange with external medical community
Clinical research experience
In-depth understanding of the scientific method and clinical applications based on medical, scientific and practical rationale
Familiarity with concepts of clinical research and clinical trial design, including biostatistics
Sound scientific and clinical judgement
Knowledge of Good Clinical Practices (GCP), region regulations and guidelines, and applicable international regulatory requirements
Familiarity of local pharmaceutical industry and legal/health system environment
Skilled at effectively presenting ideas and documenting complex medical/clinical concepts in both written and oral communication
History of solving problems while exhibiting superior judgment and a balanced, realistic understanding of issues
Network of medical, clinical contacts in product/therapeutic area
Thrive
What you can expect of us:
As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we work to also care for our teammates’ professional and personal growth and well-being.
Vast opportunities to learn and move up and across our global organization
Diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates are empowered to bring ideas to the table and act
Total Rewards Plan comprising health, finance and wealth, work/life balance, and career benefits
Apply now for a career that defies imagination.
In our quest to serve patients above all else, Amgen is the first to imagine, and the last to doubt. Join us.
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Equal Opportunity Statement
Amgen is an Equal Opportunity employer and will consider you without regard to your race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
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Job details
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 181 comparable Associate Medical Affairs roles across 63 biopharma companies.
Salary context
13 of 181 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 181 comparable roles
+ 31 more countries
Seniority mix
181 of 181 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
56 of 181 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.