Thought Leader Liaison Southeast Region (Remote)

Role Summary

Thought Leader Liaison Southeast Region (Remote) role focusing on engagement with key opinion leaders in Neuro Oncology within the Southeast region, supporting in-line product marketing in the Oncology business unit.

Responsibilities

• Actively identify, cultivate and maintain relationships with key regional KOLs through 1:1 meetings, virtual interactions, and engagements at congresses, speaker programs, advisory boards, and programs at key institutions.
• Drive results in KOL relationship management, advocacy, insights collection/reporting, advocacy development, speaker identification, training and management.
• Develop clinical and commercial knowledge of the Neuro Oncology market; understand regional treatment and market specifics, referral patterns, and multidisciplinary team functions within key accounts.
• Help formulate strategic and tactical plans for KOL engagements based on market understanding at local and national levels.
• Attend national and regional medical conferences and meetings.
• Develop engagement plans to enhance relationships with external stakeholders – KOLs in key accounts.
• Contribute to speaker bureau development, including recruiting, content development, training, execution, and evaluation of branded and unbranded educational programs.
• Support advisory boards and other insight generation projects.
• Prioritize and implement peer-to-peer education and other tactics that meet regional market needs.
• Coordinate cross-functional KOL engagement, leading task forces to support launch/product growth.
• Coordinate with Medical Affairs, Sales, and third-party partners to support commercial advisory boards as directed by Marketing.
• Support Patient Advocacy and Society Partnership and contribute to Congress planning opportunities.
• Contribute to development of materials to support execution of TLL tactics.
• Collaborate with legal, regulatory, and compliance partners to ensure compliant development and execution of initiatives.
• Review and update regional plans, operationalize engagements with thought leaders via insight gathering processes.
• Engage with TLL team members to assess market conditions nationally and introduce TLL leadership to KOLs as warranted.
• Provide insights and mentoring to Account Managers to enhance understanding and execution of commercial activity in local accounts.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry (KOL engagement, Key Customer marketing, Thought-leader liaison work, sales, marketing, or equivalent).
• 2+ years of neuro oncology experience required.
• 2+ years of rare disease experience required.
• Previous KOL-facing experience required.
• Strong preference for biomarker testing/diagnostics experience.
• Launch experience preferred.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills, strategic relationship management, collaboration/feedback skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage complexity.
• Previous thought leader liaison experience preferred or demonstrated ability to network effectively across the Neuro Oncology KOL community.
• Strong scientific acumen and understanding of oncologic clinical medicine.
• Proven history of high performance, leadership, and engagement with remote teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with experience managing complex project plans, timelines, budgets and critical paths.
• Ability to adapt to changing plans and implement new strategies quickly.
• Field-based position; must live in the Southeast region.
• Ability to travel 50-60% domestically; approximately 3 days/week in the field, with some weekend work required.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree (life sciences or related discipline a plus).
• Graduate degree preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Location: Southeast region; remote role.