Senior Medical Director

Role Summary

Responsibilities

• Develop, prioritize, and execute the overall US medical therapeutic area strategy including the annual monitoring and adaptations required from integrated learnings across both medical and brand teams
• Develop and execute the strategic direction for responsible therapeutic area within medical affairs including but not limited to the development of publication evolution, evidence generation priorities, medical education assessment, annual plan and key areas of interest, field message evolution and advancing the scientific narrative in close collaboration with the corresponding internal medical affairs functions
• Maintain a superior degree of awareness of clinical landscape, guidelines, scientific literature and competitive threats
• Build and advance identified priority external relationships with senior KOLs and physicians who are clinical leaders and influencers to form a relevant and sustainable strategy reflective of patient, payor, and other US customer needs
• Present disease state and clinical data to a variety of internal and external audiences (e.g., government, policy, payors, etc.)
• Oversee and manage execution of scientific Review and input for relevant medical review committees
• Oversee and manage execution of scientific review and input for relevant promotional review committees
• Work with medical information to triage the handling of escalated Medical Information Requests including providing research and language to include in the development of SRLs
• Provide input and support for field medical initiatives and execution as required from MSL lead
• Consolidate and share integrated insights with other functions within R&D (eg: clinical development, regulatory)
• Primary partner to Commercial team for the education and training of speakers on disease state and clinical data promotional presentations
• Ensure continuous development and training of the medical affairs and MSL team with regards for disease area expertise

Qualifications

• Advanced Scientific degree (M.D. Ph.D., Pharm.D., M.S.) with 10 - 12 years of progressive medical or scientific affairs experience within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry or equivalent experience
• Superior pharmaceutical industry experience within Medical Affairs
• Demonstrated advanced understanding of relevant connections and integration points between Medical Affairs and stakeholders across the R&D and Commercial functions
• Superior experience working in a complex matrix management environment
• In-depth knowledge of study methodology, data analysis techniques, and critical review of publications is strongly preferred
• Strategic mindset with a focus on collaboration and excellence
• Superior organizational skills including attention to detail and prioritization
• Ability to collaboratively work and establish relationships with a multidisciplinary team, across internal and external stakeholders
• Superior critical thinking, communication and writing skills
• Ability to travel to various meetings
• May require approximately 20-30% travel

Skills

Education

Additional Requirements