(Senior) Medical Advisor (I&I)
About this opportunity
Career Category
Medical Affairs
Job Description
Job purpose
Lead and develop product medical strategy and plan based on product strategy.
Key member in the brand team to develop product strategy with and local commercial team.
Provide Japan position on global/region disease and product related programs.
Provide medical affair consideration on portfolio evaluation and discussion.
Lead the planning and execution of evidence generations, publications and medical events.
Key responsibility
Partners with the brand team in the development and execution of the Local product(s) lifecycle management plan
Leading and developing the Local Medical strategy and Medical activities for the product(s) in accordance to internal and external regulations
TA and/or product specific Medical training
Ensuring consistency of Medical content and scientific messages across various tools and materials
Visits selected KOL’s and study groups for strategic discussions and protocol development
Develops study protocols for Local Amgen sponsored studies (AST); supports and executes Local study protocol preparation, filing, review and approval in line with
Amgen processes and policies
Works with Global Study Operations (GSO) to ensure preparation, implementation and completion of ASTs
Supports GSO in participation and completion of global/region studies in the country, including provision of input into site selection
Reviews Local ISS proposals prior to approval and ensures appropriate
Local/region/global committee review, if applicable
Oversees in-sourced/out-sourced medical programs and logistics
Participates in/conducts Local Advisory Board Meetings, Investigator Meetings and/or Expert Panels
Provides Medical expertise for pipeline products
Provides Medical expertise for Health Economy and reimbursement requests
Basic Qualifications Selection Criteria (minimum Qualifications)
Master’s degree in life-science or relevant area, equivalent education history
Minimum of 2 years in pharmaceutical industry, or proven industry collaboration in academia
Experience in developing and executing Medical strategy for pre-launch products.
Experience in Medical Department or Clinical Development
Experience with clinical study management and conduct
Knowledge of commercialization and business practices
Fluent in Japanese and English
Preferred Qualifications Preferred Requirements
MD, PharmD or PhD is strongly preferred
Knowledge of pharmaceutical product development, product lifecycle and commercialization process with advanced understanding of other functions; including, but not limited to, Clinical Operations, Commercial, Regulatory, and Medical Affairs
Therapeutic area knowledge and experience is preferable
Network of customer contacts in therapeutic area
Finance and budgeting experience
Capability of office works and project managements
Competencies
Medical/scientific expertise, and business acumen
Fluency in English, both oral and written communications
Strong communication and presentation skills
Continuously expanding medical and scientific knowledge as well as
market knowledge
Strong clinical research knowledge (study design, study evaluation, medical writing skills, expert panel conduct, symposium and workshop management, KOL management)
Strong customer orientation; science-based
Ability to work in a cross-functional team (e.g., Commercial, Clin Development, EU teams, HE, Regulatory, Safety, etc.)
Role model for others in line with Amgen Values
Demonstrates leadership skills
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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 140 comparable Senior Medical Affairs roles across 43 biopharma companies.
Salary context
37 of 140 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 140 comparable roles
+ 12 more countries
Seniority mix
140 of 140 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
61 of 140 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.