Senior Director, Field Medical Affairs (Neurology)

Role Summary

The Senior Director, Field Medical Affairs will oversee the creation and management of our Neurology Field Medical team. You will have direct line leadership including, hiring, goal setting, performance evaluation and all other aspects related to direct report supervision.

Responsibilities

• Establish a highly functioning, customer centric, credible and compliant field medical organization.
• Ensure appropriate training and compliant execution of our initiatives and other permissible field activities
• Ensure team field activity level and field metrics
• Collaborate with our internal partners in to ensure alignment and communication of Medical Affairs (MA) field medical goals and team value proposition.
• Assist in the creation and implementation of field strategies for healthcare professionals
• Participate in the development of educational materials/evidence communication tools and champions the regulatory/legal/health care compliance approvals.
• Aid in the creation and implementation of field collaborative strategies to ensure compliant partnership with other customer-facing teams
• Assists with management of clinical data through support of abstracts, posters, presentations and manuscript development to ensure accurate communication of scientific and clinical results.
• Appropriately engages healthcare professionals and attends conferences to collect and report relevant medical insights.
• Develops strategic plans and coordinates activities for Neurology scientific meetings and congresses.
• Develops strategies for, maintain lists of Neurology experts/investigator targets and associated plans of action.
• Ensures company policies, principles and financial controls are maintained with integrity and professionalism being displayed internally and externally.

Qualifications

• Required: Have experience building out a new US based Field Medical team
• Required: Can demonstrate an analytical approach to problem solving and ‘evidence-based decision making’
• Required: Are confident in your ability to present complex information to others effectively.
• Required: Have prior experience developing assets such as slide decks, FAQs or related MSL materials.
• Required: Must have a demonstrated ability to solve problems with innovative solutions along with strong organizational skills
• Preferred: Launch experience is preferred.
• Preferred: Experience within Medical Affairs and extensive clinical knowledge and commercialization of assets within Neurology is preferred.
• Required: 15+ years’ work experience in Medical Affairs or relevant area with experience building, leading and managing US field-based teams/MSLs
• Required: Previous people management experience

Education

• Required: Doctorate medical and/or scientific degree (MD/DO, PhD, PharmD). Any post-graduate residency or fellowship is preferred.

Skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint and Veeva