Senior Director Medical Affairs Strategy Lead - External Affairs

Role Summary

The role of Senior Director Medical Affairs Strategy Lead - External Relations is to serve as the strategic owner of Arcutis’ medical engagement with key external stakeholders beyond traditional healthcare professionals and key opinion leaders. This role develops and executes a cohesive, long-term medical external-relations strategy that aligns Medical Affairs scientific objectives with the priorities of medical societies, patient advocacy organizations, payers, policymakers, and legislative stakeholders, and leads the external engagement vision for medical affairs initiatives to improve patient outcomes in inflammatory skin diseases.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement an integrated external medical engagement strategy that advances Arcutis‚Äô mission to transform standards of care and improve patient outcomes in immuno-inflammatory skin diseases
• Collect input from strategic external partners through advisory boards, strategic steering committees, and engagement at conferences
• Serve as a Medical Affairs point of accountability for relationships with national and regional medical societies, patient advocacy groups, payer medical leadership, health policy organizations, and relevant government entities
• Forge and maintain trusted, peer-level partnerships with senior medical and scientific leaders across these external constituencies
• Drive cross-functional alignment (Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, HEOR, Market Access, Corporate Affairs, and Commercial) to ensure a unified medical voice in external policy, advocacy, and access initiatives
• Translate complex scientific and clinical platforms into compelling, stakeholder-specific narratives that support disease-state education, guideline evolution, evidence generation, and appropriate patient access
• Establish and maintain relationships with Opinion Leaders (OLs) in respective therapeutic area to establish strong scientific presence in the practicing and academic communities
• Monitor and analyze policy trends, payer landscape dynamics, and competitive activity to inform proactive Medical Affairs positioning
• Ensure all external activities adhere to the highest standards of scientific integrity and full compliance with industry regulations and Arcutis policies
• Coordinate and collaborate on execution of strategic Medical Affairs initiatives in support of department priorities as assigned by management
• Adhere to all company policies and procedures as well as all prevailing rules, laws and regulations relevant to the conduct of job duties and responsibilities
• Other duties that may be assigned

Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors degree in a scientific or business discipline and 10 years of related experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with little supervision
• Ability to adapt well under pressure
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple priorities and responsibilities simultaneously and follow-through on issues in a timely manner
• Strong collaboration skills
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Proficient in the use of business productivity software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.)
• Excellent leadership and management skills, passion for building and maintaining a successful team culture
• Strict ethics
• Ability to anticipate and adapt to change while maintaining the momentum of an overall strategic plan
• Excellent strategic planning, organizational, and communication skills
• Understand the importance of meeting corporate goals
• Ability to recognize and cultivate appropriate collaborative opportunities with key internal stakeholders and external partners
• Strong presentation and teaching skills
• Proven skills to develop, lead, and direct staff and external agencies
• Strong conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work independently and function in a rapid paced, high pressure environment

Education

• Typically requires a bachelors degree in a scientific or business discipline

Additional Requirements

• Travel may be required up to 40% of time worked