Associate Director, Medical Affairs, Southeast

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and manage professional relationships with Key External Experts (KEES) to organize networks at state levels within their designated region
• Ensure the appropriate dissemination of clinical and scientific information regarding marketed and pipeline compounds in a timely, ethical and health care provider (HCP)-focused manner
• Implement clinical and educational strategies in collaboration with other company colleagues for designated HCPs/KEES. This includes organizing medical and scientific training sessions, conferences and symposiums in medical centers and during scientific congresses in the US
• Execute and support department projects as directed by the Medical Officer
• Report pharmacovigilance (PV), product quality (PQ), or medical information (MI) requests within 24 hours, per the Standard Operating Procedures for PV, PQ, and MI reporting
• Contribute to an efficient organization of medical communication activities for the marketed drug
• Input all KEE/HCP interactions in company’s software platform(s) in a timely manner. The minimum requirement is weekly input
• Work to pair our KEE/HCP educational and research questions with the latest emerging data in response to specific healthcare professional inquiries

Qualifications

• Advanced scientific degree preferred (MD, PhD, PharmD), and will consider DNP, or clinically equivalent if appropriate experience (e.g., APRN, PA, RPh)
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry (preferred) as a field-based medical position (MSL or similar) to provide strategic and scientific/medical direction to national/regional business unit functions
• Preferred experience in rare disease; and/or neurology or pediatrics
• Knowledge of FDA Regulations and Medical Affairs SOPs and Guidelines
• Ability to respond appropriately to needs of key stakeholders and manage expectations; excellent project management skills and follow through
• Excellent data analysis skills; strong understanding of clinical databases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and exceptional interpersonal skills
• Able to work under deadline in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of flexibility
• Excellent problem-solving skills required
• Able to effectively facilitate meetings and cross-functional teams
• Project management experience (timelines, documents, reporting) preferred