Head of International Medical Affairs, Process Effectiveness and Monitoring

Location: Barcelona Gran Vía

Salary Range

€93,800.00 - €174,200.00

Job Description Summary

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Location: Barcelona, Spain.

Relocation Support: Yes

Are you ready to strengthen how International Medical Affairs translates governance into consistent, effective execution?

As Head of International Medical Affairs, Process Effectiveness and Monitoring, you will lead the advancement of process effectiveness and monitoring across International Medical Affairs, helping ensure robust governance, proactive risk management, and sustainable operational excellence. Reporting to the Head of Medical Affairs Governance & Operations, IMA, you will work across functions and geographies to strengthen first-line monitoring, support audit and inspection readiness, and turn insights into meaningful improvements in how teams operate.

This is a highly visible leadership opportunity to combine governance expertise, transformation, and digital innovation to simplify ways of working, strengthen compliance, and enable Medical Affairs teams to deliver their priorities with greater consistency and impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead process effectiveness and first-line monitoring across International Medical Affairs to strengthen consistent, compliant execution.
• Design and evolve monitoring frameworks that identify governance risks, trends, gaps, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Translate monitoring insights into targeted corrective and preventive actions that strengthen Medical Affairs processes and ways of working.
• Drive proactive risk management, ensuring emerging governance and compliance risks are identified, assessed, and appropriately addressed.
• Strengthen audit and inspection readiness by embedding sustainable processes, monitoring practices, and clear accountability across International Medical Affairs.
• Partner with country, regional, and functional stakeholders to improve process adoption, governance implementation, and operational effectiveness.
• Lead process simplification and transformation initiatives that improve efficiency while maintaining appropriate governance and compliance standards.
• Establish meaningful metrics and insights that enable leadership to assess process effectiveness and prioritize improvement opportunities.
• Champion responsible use of Artificial Intelligence, analytics, and digital solutions to enhance monitoring, insights, and operational efficiency.
• Lead, develop, and empower the Process Effectiveness and Monitoring team while building strong networks across functions and geographies.