Contractor, Medical Strategy & Field Scientific Engagement (Pulmonary/IPF)

About the Role

This role serves as a strategic, externally facing Medical Affairs leader, responsible for executing medical strategies while building meaningful relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) in Pulmonology. This role combines medical strategy with direct scientific engagement, ensuring that external insights shape evidence generation, clinical development, and medical affairs plans. This is a hybrid role combining 50% Medical Strategy and 50% Pulmonary Medical Science Liaison responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities

Medical Strategy & Cross-Functional Leadership

• Lead the execution and contribute to the development of Medical Affairs strategic and tactical plans aligned with product, disease area, and corporate objectives.
• Serve as the Medical Affairs representative on cross-functional product and brand teams, translating internal priorities and external insights into actionable medical plans and deliverables.
• Maintain integrated scientific narratives based on disease state knowledge, clinical evidence, competitive landscape, and future development opportunities.
• Partner with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, and other stakeholders to identify evidence gaps and support integrated evidence-generation plans, including investigator-sponsored research and company-sponsored studies.
• Contribute medical and scientific expertise to clinical development plans, trial designs, publications planning, and lifecycle management activities.

External Scientific Engagement & KOL Management

• Develop and maintain strategic relationships with Pulmonary/IPF KOLs, investigators, disease experts, and healthcare providers in academic and community settings.
• Conduct high-level scientific exchange on disease state, clinical data, emerging evidence, and Syndax assets.
• Identify and profile key scientific leaders, institutions, and research networks that support Syndax medical and clinical development objectives.
• Serve as a trusted scientific partner to external stakeholders while maintaining scientific credibility and compliance with company policies.

Insight Generation & Evidence Development

• Support planning and execution of insight-generation activities, including advisory boards, scientific input exchanges, congress interactions, and investigator meetings.
• Gather, analyze, and communicate actionable field insights related to clinical practice, competitive developments, emerging science, and patient management trends.
• Support identification of clinical trial sites and investigators while providing scientific partnership for ongoing and future clinical research.

Scientific Communications & Congress Leadership

• Participate in congress planning committees and contribute to development of congress strategy and engagement plans.
• Represent Syndax at scientific congresses, advisory boards, and other external engagements, gathering insights and advancing scientific relationships.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree required: MD, DO, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent.
• 3+ years of progressive experience in Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Field Medical, or related biopharmaceutical roles, with meaningful IPF or pulmonology experience.
• Launch experience in IPF or pulmonology preferred.
• Demonstrated experience executing medical strategies and evidence-generation initiatives.
• Experience engaging with KOLs, investigators, and research institutions in scientific exchange and relationship management.
• Strong understanding of clinical development, medical affairs, and pulmonology IPF treatment landscapes.
• Proven ability to influence across a matrix organization and drive cross-functional collaboration.
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, and project management skills.
• 20% travel requirements and experience with virtual KOL engagement.

Location

While our corporate headquarters are located in New York City, this position is open to candidates from any location with a preference for east coast locations.