Senior Medical Director, Transplant Lead, Global Medical Affairs

Role Summary

The Senior Medical Director, Transplant Lead, Global Medical Affairs is a strategic medical leader responsible for guiding medical strategy development, launch planning, and program support for transplant initiatives. As part of Biogen’s Nephrology & Transplant Global Medical team, this role is medically accountable for developing and implementing the Global Medical Strategy for transplant products and advancing leadership in the global transplant medical community. The role requires extensive Global Medical Affairs experience, strong scientific and clinical expertise, and willingness to travel 30-40% to engage external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain close partnership with key transplant medical experts and healthcare providers to generate insights to inform medical and broader cross-functional strategy and tactical plans.
• Partner cross functionally to generate comprehensive KOL maps across relevant countries to facilitate engagement plans.
• Develop and implement cross-functionally aligned global medical strategies in support of clinical development programs and eventual launch planning activities for transplant indications.
• Lead high impact medical activities, such as advisory boards, medical education, and medical research projects.
• Partner with clinical development and operations teams to support clinical development programs through enhanced site engagement activities and identification of center of excellence.
• Lead the generation of evidence generation strategy, including investigator initiated research strategy.
• Partner with scientific communications and publications to support development and execution of publication plans for impactful data dissemination and medical education strategies.
• Identify and advance productive collaborations with external stakeholders including healthcare and patient advocacy organizations.
• Lead a team of direct reports toward impactful execution of an aligned Global Medical Strategy for transplant.

Qualifications

• Required: Advanced degree required: MD, PhD or PharmD.
• Required: 8+ years of pharmaceutical industry experience, preferably with prior work in headquarters-based Medical Affairs role or Field Medical based role. Substitution of industry work with relevant clinical practice experience in transplant may be considered.
• Required: Experience and expertise in developing, communicating, and executing a comprehensive Global medical affairs plan.
• Required: Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and collaborate with global, regional and/or affiliate medical to ensure regional activities are executed in alignment with global medical strategy and ensuring the insights and needs from them are known and properly addressed.
• Required: Ability to function independently to progress key projects with minimal direction and oversight.
• Required: Demonstrated ability to work effectively in teams with a commitment to cross-functional risk sharing, collaboration and learning that facilitates partnership, collective accountability and prompt, informed decision-making.
• Required: Maintain clinical and technical expertise through review of the scientific literature and attendance at key scientific meetings.
• Required: Excellent communicator, skilled at diplomacy and capable of effectively combining science and relationship building.
• Required: Strong working knowledge of US and ex-US regulations as relevant to Medical Affairs.
• Required: People manager experience with a focus on growth, development and delivering results.
• Preferred: Experience with medical launch as well as products at different stages of the lifecycle.
• Preferred: Ability to manage projects and take initiative to solve complex and challenging problems.

Additional Requirements

• Travel willingness: 30–40% of time to engage with external stakeholders.