Senior Medical Director, Global Generics and OTC

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The Senior Medical Director, Global Generics & OTC is a key global medical leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the medical strategy across global generics and OTC portfolios for Teva.

This role provides end-to-end medical leadership across generics lifecycle management, global launch planning and execution, OTC expansion, and cross-functional collaboration with portfolio, commercial, business development, and country organizations.

The Senior Medical Director will lead and develop a high-performing global team based in Zagreb while acting as a trusted strategic partner to global and regional stakeholders.

This role operates in a highly matrixed global environment, leading through influence and partnership with regional and country medical teams. Success requires strong collaboration, alignment, and planning with partners.

How You’ll Spend Your Day

• Define and own the global medical strategy for Generics and OTC portfolios, aligned with Teva’s overall business objectives and priorities.
• Create and deliver a high-efficiency execution model for Gx and OTC medical activities across the organization.
• Translate global strategy into clear, actionable medical plans across lifecycle stages, including launches and OTC expansion.
• Act as a senior medical voice in global governance forums, providing scientific leadership and strategic perspective where appropriate.
• Establish and keep close relationship with Medical Affairs on the global, regional, cluster and country levels to widen availability, networking and leverage of existing knowledge, and to align and consolidate medical expertise.
• Work closely with the Regional Medical Heads to ensuring alignment on the generics and OTC.

• Provide medical leadership for global generics launch planning and execution, including first-to-market, small molecules, complex generics, combination products and high-impact global launches.
• Ensure timely medical readiness for launches through robust scientific narratives, value dossiers, training materials, slide decks, virtual internal training sessions.
• Support OTC expansion strategies, including Rx-to-OTC switches, claim development, consumer-relevant medical positioning.
• Serve as a key medical partner to Global Pipeline & Portfolio & OTC teams (pipeline prioritization), Business Development & Alliance partners (medical due diligence, asset evaluation, integration support), Regional commercial teams, Country and regional medical teams, ensuring global strategies are locally relevant and executable.
• Lead a high performing global medical Gx and OTC team of approximately ten medical professionals, fostering an inclusive, empowering and high performance culture.
• Translate enterprise wide Gx, OTC objectives into work plans of individual team members, provide support to team members and ensure timely delivery of medical objectives.
• Create deep medical Gx and OTC talent pipeline by identifying, attracting and developing a best-in-class Gx and OTC Medical Affairs team. Strong focus on talent development for succession planning.
• Standing Medical representative, subject matter expert and presenter in regional and global committees for quality and/or safety issues: at EU/Global Market Action Committee (MAC) meetings, Product Safety Group (PSG) and Corporate Safety Board meetings (CSB) related to generics and OTC products.
• Supports pipeline and portfolio selection by leveraging medical inputs to identify and prioritize high-potential opportunities for Pipeline and Portfolio selection, ensuring informed decision-making.
• Support timely RA submissions of new generic products in Europe by delivering high-quality documentation. Timely planning and execution of clinical and non-clinical overviews, paediatric investigations waivers and dossier updates, inputs to deficiency letters, etc.
• Deliver systematic medical support to maximize launch impact through the development of educational materials, input and review of promotional and educational content, and alignment with commercial strategies. Development of Global Generics launch medical playbook, targeted educational content, AI tolls for MLR review.
• Enable credible representation with health authorities and industry bodies by preparing high-quality documentation and represent Teva in key discussions with EMA, FDA, WHO, European Commission, European generics association etc. as medical expert.
• Prepare for Scientific advice meetings, DHPC letters/MSC communication, medical input to shortage related communications, medical input to Shortage Prevention Plan in EU, Regulatory briefings and external meeting support.

Your Skills and Experience

• M.D. degree required.
• 15-20+ years of medical affairs experience in the pharmaceutical industry with a focus on multiple therapy area responsibility.
• An accomplished medical affairs leader, with a strong track record of success in leadership roles, strong business acumen and people management capabilities. Proven experience managing medical affairs teams covering diverse therapeutic areas, including generics and OTC.

• Is recognised as a key internal medical expert (SME) within medical and cross functionally.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, interpersonal skills and proven success working in a matrixed team-based environment.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; demonstrated ability to identify and understand complex issues and problems

• Effective presentation skills to internal and external stakeholders and key decision makers

• Attention to detail and ability to meet timelines in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellent organizational skills to support project planning across multiple activities, and to anticipate and prioritize workload.
• A hands-on approach to performing duties with a strong self-directed work ethic and attention to detail.

• Able to work with a high level of autonomy and independence with ability to motivate and influence others without relying on position or power.

How We’ll Take Care of You

Reports To

Vice President and Head, Europe Medical Affairs, Global Gx, Bx, OTC

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