Associate Director, Global Medical Affairs, SLE

The Associate Director, Global Medical Affairs, SLE

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, execution, and continual enhancement of global medical education and congress strategies for rheumatology, leveraging traditional, digital, and omnichannel approaches.
• Develop and oversee tactical initiatives including exhibits, symposia, advisory boards, expert engagement, and stakeholder events, ensuring strategic alignment across the different rheumatology medical asset teams.
• Support medical evidence generation (e.g., registries, post-hoc analyses, and real-world data initiatives) and manage publication planning, working closely with HEOR, GBDS, medical communications and external experts.
• Cultivate and expand relationships with key stakeholders, including external clinical experts, patient advocacy groups, and multidisciplinary internal teams to support broad scientific and medical advocacy.
• Facilitate knowledge transfer from HQ to regions/markets/field teams through scientific narrative development, lexicon creation, and comprehensive scientific training programs.
• Support BMS markets with pre/post launch medical education planning and post-event impact assessment.
• Define, track, and measure the effectiveness and reach of medical education and scientific exchange activities.
• Partner with the Customer Engagement Hub and other stakeholders to execute medical event logistics, contracting, and budget management.
• Provide medical input and perspective at strategic forums, including launch activities impacting the rheumatology portfolio.
• Build, forecast, track, and adjust the medical budget as needed.

Qualifications & Experience

• Advanced scientific or medical degree (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MD, DO).
• Strong scientific or clinical background.
• 3-5+ years of industry experience in Medical Affairs or other relevant functions.
• Therapeutic area experience in immunology or rheumatology preferred.

Key Competency Requirements

• Core learning and communications competencies, eg principles of adult learning, omnichannel communication, and communications 101.
• Creativity, innovation, and outside the box thinking.
• Highly organized and motivated individual possessing excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to manage and execute multiple projects at all levels including stakeholder management, strategy, and operations.
• Team and goal oriented with a passion for medical education, customer engagement, innovation, simplification, science, and medicine.
• Ability to interpret and translate complex scientific information to simple medical affairs strategies and communications.
• Core medical affairs competencies highly preferred, eg execution of advisory boards, medical education, medical strategy.
• Excellent planning and organization skills including the ability to work under pressure, and to maintain scientific excellence within timelines.
• Strong leadership experience within multi-functional project teams and managing external agencies.
• Ability to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality and integrity; representing the company’s high ethics, moral behavior, and professionalism standards.

Work-life Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• Unlimited paid vacation for new hires with manager approval
• 11 paid national holidays (not applicable to employees in Phoenix, AZ, Puerto Rico or Rayzebio employees)
• Summer hours flexibility
• Leaves of absence for medical, personal, parental, caregiver, bereavement, and military needs
• Annual Global Shutdown between Christmas and New Years Day