Crinetics Pharmaceuticals

Crinetics is a pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, developing much-needed therapies for people with endocrine diseases and endocrine-related tumors. We were founded by a dedicated team of scientists with the simple belief that better therapies developed from rigorous innovation can lead to better lives. Our work continues to make a real difference in the lives of patients. We have a prolific discovery engine and a robust preclinical and clinical development pipeline. We are driven by science with a patient-centric and team-oriented culture. Crinetics is known for its inclusive workplace culture. We are also a dog-friendly workplace. This is an exciting time to join Crinetics as we shape our organization into the world’s premier fully-integrated endocrine company from discovery to patients. Join our team as we transform the lives of others...

Position Summary

The Director, Field Medical Excellence will work in close collaboration with the relevant stakeholders from across Medical Affairs to develop and execute comprehensive resources on disease state, product, and treatment landscape. The Director will be responsible for creating and developing resources for the Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) to be used in the field with customers. This person will scope and advise functionality enhancements for systems/digital tools to support in field efficiency and external engagement. The Director is expected to lead planning, development, and delivery of scientific materials for internal stakeholders across Medical Affairs. Building and establishing strong partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders to advance internal medical and scientific knowledge will be key to the role. They will be responsible for the development of content and experiences across the product(s) lifecycle phases. Deliverables will include self-paced live and virtual modules, and tools to enhance scientific knowledge retention. An ability to work collaboratively within a matrix organization is critically important to successfully develop and deploy the valued and impactful scientific materials in a consistent and efficient way that maximizes synergies and minimizes duplication across Medical Affairs...

The Director of Field Medical excellence will contribute to the overall vision, strategy, and approach to medical and scientific materials across the indications and assets that fall under their Therapeutic Area (TA). The Director will be expected to collaborate with their peers to drive alignment and consistency for medical and scientific outputs...

The Director of Field Medical Excellence will be expected to develop strong and effective partnerships with colleagues from within the broader Medical Affairs team. In addition, it will be imperative that close working relationships are forged with relevant colleagues from US and International commercial teams, compliance, quality, human resources and corporate communications, as needed. The Director will drive advancement of medical and scientific content, from onboarding through ongoing materials, for the purpose of achieving and maintaining a centralized expert level scientific knowledge reflective of the associated medical strategy for their assigned area(s) of therapeutic and asset focus...

Essential Job Functions And Responsibilities

These may include but are not limited to:

• Leads overarching evolution, strategy, and execution of medical and scientific resources and responsible for the dissemination of all materials for a specific TA.
• Collaborates with identified individual(s) within designated therapeutic team to gain clarity on TA content needs and develop Integrated Materials aligned to these needs.
• Develop medical affairs material to be used by Field MSLs including training decks, slide presentations, and other relevant material essential for medical affair use with customers or internal training.
• Create and develop a content platform to be used by medical affairs which stores and tracks onboarding and continuous material.
• Partners with relevant colleagues involved in medical and scientific learning from across medical, clinical development and endocrinology to ensure relevance of learning deliverables and consistency of offerings across the various Medical Affairs groups.
• Ensures timely and efficient development and delivery of medical and scientific learning content/training related to disease state, product (including pipeline and commercial assets), and treatment landscape.
• Orchestrates, develops, and executes self-paced interactive modules, live (in-person and virtual) workshops, multimedia (e.g., podcasts/videos) and knowledge retention tools, leveraging a common materials platform.
• Aligns and works collaboratively with the Leadership Development and Capabilities team to ensure a synthesized approach that reflects a combination of scientific and capabilities focus within the onboarding curriculum.
• Pilots and leads innovative new techniques, digital and virtual technologies and modalities to advance scientific curricula across entire Medical Affairs team.
• Reviews and critically assesses the impact of deliverables to gain insights that will inform and enhance future outputs.
• Expected to be able to travel up to 30% of time, as required by the role and areas of responsibility.

Education And Experience

Education: Scientific / Clinical / Medical educational background required. Advanced Scientific Degree (e.g., PhD, PharmD, MD, or DNP) required.

Professional experience: At least 10 years, including 7 years of prior MSL or related pharmaceutical industry experience (clinical experience highly preferred).

• Excellent planning and organizational skills to demonstrate leadership and initiative.
• Strong scientific background, with the ability to critically review and analyze scientific literature in an objective manner and concisely summarize and communicate key information.
• Experience creating interactive content of various media types with e-learning software experience.
• Strong individual project management skills and works collaboratively with vendors to meet project and event timelines to deliver high-quality materials.
• Creative and strategic thinker possessing excellent written, oral, and presentation skills.
• Goal-oriented with a strong sense of urgency and the ability to address complex problems across projects.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and interface in a dynamic environment across departments.
• Strong knowledge of Pharma regulatory, quality, and healthcare compliance guidelines.
• Advanced MS PowerPoint and MS Word as well as basic MS Excel proficiency required.

Physical Demands And Work Environment

Physical Activities: On a continuous basis, sit at desk for a long period of time; intermittently answer telephone and write or use a keyboard to communicate through written means. Some walking and lifting up to 25 lbs. may be required. The noise level in the work environment is typically low to moderate. The physical demands described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions and responsibilities of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and responsibilities...

Laboratory Activities (if applicable): Biology and chemical laboratory environment experience needed. Environmental health and safety requirements also apply...

Travel

You may be required to travel for up to 30% of your time.

The Anticipated Base Salary Range

$200,000-$236,000.

In addition to your base pay, our total rewards program consists of a discretionary annual target bonus, stock options, ESPP, and 401k match. We also provide top-notch health insurance plans for employees (and their families) to include medical, dental, vision and basic life insurance, 20 days of PTO, 10 paid holidays, and a winter company shutdown...

The final salary offered to a successful candidate will be dependent on several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and length of experience and education. Crinetics Pharmaceuticals is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process...

Equal Opportunity Employer

Crinetics is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants without regard to unlawful considerations of sex, sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and/or expression), pregnancy, race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, religion or similar philosophical beliefs, disability, marital and civil union status, age, genetic information, veteran status or any personal attribute or characteristic that is protected by applicable local, state or federal laws...

Vaccination Requirement

Following extensive monitoring, research, consideration of business implications, and advice from internal and external experts, Crinetics requires that all employees and contractors be fully vaccinated and have received the COVID-19 vaccines as a condition of employment. “Full vaccination” is defined as two weeks after both doses of a two-dose vaccine or two weeks since a single-dose vaccine has been administered. Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, can request a reasonable accommodation.