Medical affairs managers play a central role in medical engineering and pharmaceutical companies: They are responsible for the planning and coordination of clinical trials as well as for the collection and forwarding of product information to employees or customers. Medical affairs managers cooperate closely with marketing managers.
Companies from the medical engineering and pharmaceutical industry require competitive medical products and therefore rely on the expertise of qualified medical affairs managers. Thus, the career prospects of medical affairs managers are excellent, especially at healthcare companies. Get in touch with your contact person at Hays and find out more about interesting job offers.
Medical affairs managers act as interfaces between development, approval, marketing and sales at larger medical engineering or pharmaceutical companies. When it comes to medical, marketing-related questions, they are the main point of contact.
Medical affairs managers require an academic degree in medicine, pharmacy or chemistry. Ideally, they have a PhD degree and professional experience in working in the pharmaceutical industry.
Furthermore, medical affairs managers should possess certain soft skills, e.g. strong communication skills, assertiveness and an independent way of working. Last but not least, they should be good negotiators and have an economic way of thinking.
On average, medical affairs managers have an annual salary of approximately EUR 60,000; the starting salary is about EUR 50,000. Depending on experience, qualification and employer, their salary may rise up to EUR 80,000 per year.
