Country Lead Rare Diseases

**Description Overview**:
HRA Pharma Rare Diseases is dedicated to bringing the best care and services to people living with rare diseases and is committed to supporting healthcare professionals all over the world.

We have over 15 years’ experience in rare and ultra-rare diseases with a portfolio of medicines that address Cushing’s syndrome and Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma.

We are passionate about improving the lives of people affected by these conditions. We recognize that people living with rare diseases often have severe and potentially life-threatening disabilities that impact not only their quality of life, but also the lives of those who care for them. Delays in diagnosis, together with the lack of effective treatments are just some of the challenges faced by people living with a rare disease.

We are looking for a Country Lead Rare Diseases. In this position you will have full responsibility for the management and development of RD portfolio business in the markets as well as participation in the definition of the promotional strategy of the zone. You will respect and ensure compliance with local promotional regulations and look after product specialist management (In charge of the realisation of the duo visits, annual review) In addition as part of the European Commercial team, you will participate in meetings and share your experience, best practice, and ideas for development.

**Scope of the Role**:
Promotional activities:

- Acquire, maintain, and share a high level of knowledge regarding the product, the market, the competition, and aspects related to the health environment in the assigned area.
- Organise and lead meetings with physicians and key opinion leaders.
- Make good use of the material, commercial policies available in line with the communication strategy validated by global marketing, medical and regulatory departments.
- Meet regularly with KOLs
- Establish and maintain strong relationships with patient organisations and propose collaborative projects with them.
- Participate in regional and national congresses and represent HRA RD in front of healthcare professionals.
- Bring together the various actors with the aim of optimising patient journey.
- Share best practices, knowledge, and information with other cluster leads.

Regulatory and compliance:

- Conform with Regulations and ethical professional dispositions.
- Adhere to Territory regulations regarding promotional activities.
- Adhere to HRA RD Guidelines,
- Follow Regulations related to the transparency of links for data collected concerning the health professionals visited.

Feedback from the field:

- Reporting of cases to the pharmacovigilance teams
- Report information to the hierarchy in the geographical area
- Transmission to colleagues regarding remarks, needs, questions and objections communicated by healthcare professionals.
- Collects, analyses and transmits requests and information to the relevant departments (pharmacovigilance, product complaints, etc.)

Deployment of the promotional information strategy in its zone based on global strategy provided by HQ.
- Definition and planning of the operational objectives of promotional information of his/her zone (qualitative and quantitative)
- Adaptation of promotional materials to conform with local regulations.
- Definition and follow-up of regional action plans
- Implementation and follow-up of the promotional strategy (stakeholder engagement, budget follow-up, product priorities )
- Proposal of an optimal structuring of the networks
- Identification and development of national KOL network
- Organization of meetings, workshops with physicians/KOLs
- Holding individual meetings with physicians and KOLs, face to face or web meetings

Follow-up and steering of the activity on its zone.
- Contribution to the design and continuous improvement of activity monitoring and analysis tools (dashboards, performance evaluation, graphs...)
- Evaluation of results and monitoring of operating accounts for the geographical zone concerned.
- Controlling the promotional information teams’ expenses and fees
- Following up on the Business Drivers’ budget

Management and animation of the zone.
- Organization and coordination of the local Product Specialist, proactively manage the colleague’s activity and planning.
- Responsible for the completion of projects within the budget and the defined deadline
- Organization and motivation of the promotional information team and medical colleagues supporting the territory.
- Supporting and following-up on the professional development of the product specialists (reviews, trainings, monitoring of regional development plans, etc.)
- Management of human resources within his/her scope (recruitment, evaluation, training, duo visits...)

**Experience Required**:

- More than 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, or medical sector, ideally in rare diseases including:
more than 2 years of management experience
marketing experience
- Universit