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Job positions for pharmacists in pharma
The positions listed are not exhaustive and the information for the job positions listed is a guide only and varies from company to company.
SAlES
Job positions:
• Sales representative
• Sales manager
Duties:
• Promotes company’s products to healthcare professionals including GPs, specialists and pharmacists
• Coordinates educational meetings in assigned territory
• Reports adverse events
• Provides healthcare professionals with
updated information relating to products
in their disease state portfolio
• Provides feedback for marketing and
monitoring of sales
Requirements:
• Qualifications needed will depend on the company
• Bachelor of Science, Pharmacy or similar is highly regarded
• Results-based sales experience
• Ability to meet target sales quotas in a set
time frame
• Easily builds strong rapport and has good
organisational and planning skills
MEDICAl SCIENCE lIAISoN (MSl)
Duties:
• Acts as the main scientific expert in the key therapeutic area and creates resources for the therapy team
• Offers assistance on projects in the key therapeutic area including medical affairs, continuing medical education and scientific reviews
• Collaborates with the therapy unit to identify, develop and manage emerging prospects for products
Requirements:
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) qualification in a specific therapeutic area or Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)
• Pharmacists without a PhD can initially gain experience in the Medical Affairs team and work their way into an MSL role
• Experience working with clinicians
• Strong therapeutic area knowledge and
understanding of clinical data
MARkETING
Job positions:
• Marketing associate • Marketing manager • Marketing director • Product manager
Duties:
• Provides in-depth therapeutic and
product knowledge and evaluates
therapeutic options
• Develops promotional material and
activities for the sales force
• Develops and implements marketing
strategy
• Manages the performance and
profitability of company products • Trains new sales representatives
Requirements:
• Marketing degree
• Bachelor of Pharmacy/Science or
similar is ideal for technical background
knowledge
• Results-based sales experience
• Easily builds strong rapport, good
organisational and planning skills
MEDICAl AFFAIRS
Medical Affairs is an umbrella terminology and roles such as medical information, drug safety (pharmacovigilance) and medical science liaison belong to this department.
Job positions:
• Medical affairs associate • Medical affairs manager
Duties:
• Ensures the context of promotional
material is scientific, unbiased and reasonable and all the information is properly documented
• Advises of the relative risk of materials • Identifies and documents areas of
non-compliance
• Consults with stakeholders in a
collaborative manner Requirements:
• Recommended to have a track record in completing promotional review
or medical review activities within a pharmaceutical company
• Good knowledge of Medicines Australia Codes of conduct
MEDICAl INFoRMATIoN
Job positions:
• Medical information associate
• Senior medical information associate • Medical information manager
Duties:
• Offers balanced, evaluated information and advice on the clinical use of medicines to external customers (such as pharmacists, GPs, specialists and patients) and internal customers (such as sales and marketing)
• Reviews published literature and company data to keep up-to-date with current product issues
• Reviews and approves advertising and promotional materials to ensure Code of Conduct Compliance
Requirements:
• Degree in Pharmacy or Life Sciences
• Experience in community pharmacy or
healthcare agency
• Clinical/hospital pharmacy experience is
beneficial
• Computer literate and previous
experience with online literature research
is beneficial
• High attention to detail, strong verbal and
written communication skills
DRuG SAFETy (PHARMACovIGIlANCE)
Job positions:
• Drug safety associate
• Senior drug safety associate • Drug safety manager
Duties:
• Collects adverse event data for the company’s products and records them onto regulatory databases, and notifies the appropriate regulatory authorities
• Offers adverse event report training to clinical trial investigators, sales and other colleagues
• Monitors drug safety as part of postmarketing surveillance
Requirements:
• Pharmacy background and experience • Attention to detail and ability to identify
and process adverse events data
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