Medical Lead

Salary Range:

lei210,000.00 - lei279,333.33

All Compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience.

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Medical Lead - Opella Location: Bucharest, Romania Hybrid You’ve built experience, now use it where bold ideas meet real impact. At Opella, we’re challenging how self-care works for millions of people and need leaders and experts ready to shape what’s next. As an Medical Lead, you’ll bring your skill, your curiosity and your drive to make health simpler, smarter and more human The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced and passionate Medical Lead to join our Romania team. This is a strategic medical affairs role with responsibility for shaping and implementing the local medical strategy, building trusted relationships with key healthcare stakeholders, and ensuring the scientific credibility of our brands. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to translate complex science into meaningful medical value for healthcare professionals and consumers while ensuring the highest standards of compliance and ethics. What You'll Do Key Responsibilities Lead the country medical strategy and execute medical endorsement plans aligned with business priorities. Build and manage relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), professional associations, and scientific experts. Provide strategic medical input to commercial, healthcare professional, and cross-functional teams. Drive medical education initiatives and scientific exchange activities to enhance healthcare professional engagement. Lead scientific visibility activities through congresses, symposia, advisory boards, webinars, and other medical events. Generate and communicate scientific evidence, including clinical, observational, and real-world data, to support brand differentiation. Ensure compliance and medical governance across all promotional and non-promotional activities. About YouKey Requirements 3–5+ years' experience in Medical Affairs within the pharmaceutical, OTC, or consumer healthcare industry. Proven experience managing KOL engagement and scientific exchange programmes. Demonstrated experience delivering medical education, congress, and scientific communication activities. Strong understanding of evidence generation, including clinical studies and real-world evidence. Experience working successfully within a highly regulated and compliance-driven environment. Degree in Medicine, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, or a related scientific discipline. Fluent English communication skills with the ability to present complex scientific information clearly and effectively. Nice to Have Advanced scientific qualification such as MD, PharmD, or PhD. Consumer healthcare or OTC industry experience. Experience leading cross-functional projects and influencing senior stakeholders. Why Join Opella? This is more than the next step in your career, it’s a chance to lead change and help reinvent self-care for the world. If you’re ready to challenge, inspire and deliver impact that matters, we’re ready for you. We are challengers. We are Opella. About Us: Opella is the self-care challenger with the purest and third-largest portfolio in the Over The Counter (OTC) & Vitamins, Minerals & Supplements (VMS) market globally. Our mission is to bring health in people’s hands by making self-care as simple as it should be. For half a billion consumers worldwide – and counting. At the core of this mission is our 100 loved brands, our 11,000-strong global team, our 13 best-in-class manufacturing sites and 4 specialized science and innovation development centers. Headquartered in France, Opella is the proud maker of many of the world’s most loved brands, including Allegra, Buscopan, Doliprane, Dulcolax, Enterogermina, Essentiale and Mucosolvan. As a globally certified B Corp company, we are active players in the journey towards healthier people and planet. Find out more about our mission at www.opella.com. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Opella is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates diversity in all its forms. We make employment decisions based on qualifications, merit, and business needs, and we welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and experiences. Ready to help shape the future of consumer healthcare? We'd love to hear from you. #li-hybrid