Field Medical Advisor - Italy

Field Medical Advisor (FMA)

Please, note that we will consider candidates based only in Center/South Italy.

This is a fixed-term contract (1 year) with the possibility to be extended/become permanent.

You are a listener, an educator and a gifted cultivator of new and exciting opportunities grounded in science?

The FMA serves as the primary field-based point of contact with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), Healthcare Providers (HCPs) including clinical investigators on a range of clinical and scientific issues. The primary role is to deliver and facilitate medical education, communications, research, and scientific insight gathering activities of the client. This includes the provision of scientific and medical data on both licensed and unlicensed client products and indications as permissible by local laws and regulations.

The FMA identifies, develops, and maintains long-term collaborative partnerships with external clinical and scientific experts and institutions to support current and future client portfolio activities.

They ensure effective communication and collaboration across a multifunctional client team, including other Medical Affairs colleagues as well as commercial and Market Access, to meet client and healthcare provider needs and ultimately ensure the best patient care in an efficient and compliant manner.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain outstanding knowledge of relevant disease area topics.
• Develop and maintain outstanding knowledge of client products, competitor products, and other therapeutic options within the therapeutic area.
• Collaborate with the cross‑functional team to ensure the best patient care.
• Maintain an in‑depth understanding of the medical strategy and broader client strategy to ensure activities are coordinated with the team and aligned to the client strategy.
• Collaborate with Cluster and Country Medical Leads for the development and execution of the field medical strategy for the product and disease area.
• Develop synergistic relationships with KOLs to expand research, advisory, and educational partnership opportunities.
• Work to the highest ethical compliance, ethics and safety standards, adhering to all local regulations and laws.
• Engage with the cross‑functional team to ensure activities are coordinated and aligned with client strategy.
• Initiate and lead the implementation of medical projects, e.g. Medical Advisory Board meetings, Medical Education, patient care innovation projects.
• Provide scientific congress coverage and support for national and international client planned activities.
• Serve as external, credible scientific expert on disease area and client products at HCP field meetings, key medical and scientific conferences, advisory boards, clinical investigator meetings and patient advocacy group meetings.
• Respond to unsolicited requests for medical information on client products in a credible, balanced, objective manner.
• Proactively engage with HCP community to provide medical education as permissible by local laws and regulations.
• Provide effective clinical presentations to internal and external audiences and tailor presentations to meet specific audience needs.
• Support Early Access Programmes (EAPs).
• Identify and map HCPs and networks/referral patterns.
• Identify key field insights related to client products, activities and the disease area, and effectively disseminate and collaborate with cross‑functional partners.
• Support clinical operations in trial site identification.
• Facilitate clear communication between the client and investigators in investigator engagement for both client‑sponsored and investigator‑sponsored studies and address barriers to enrolment for pipeline assets.
• Identify and support local data generation activities.

Requirements

• MSL/FMA experience.
• Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD) or professional qualification (physician, nurse pharmacist). Exceptional candidates with MSc considered.
• Experience within disease area (as part of academia or in industry).
• Knowledge of clinical research design and GCP in the disease area.
• Strong understanding of clinical research trial design and study analysis, including cost effectiveness and other high‑level HEOR evidence approaches.
• Strong understanding of local healthcare systems, treatment guidelines.
• Ability to develop trust and maintain integrity with KOLs, external clinical and scientific experts, investigators, HCPs, and institutions, as well as with peers.
• Knowledge of relevant laws and regulations to role.
• Excellent presentation, communication skills.
• Ability to convey complex scientific concepts and information appropriately tailored to the audience, e.g., affiliate staff and regional/global Medical Affairs leadership.

Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled).