Director, Medical Education & Grants

About the role

We're seeking a Director, Medical Education & Grants for our Medical Affairs team. This role involves driving processes and maintaining systems for compliant and efficient execution of Medical Education plans supporting impactful independent medical education programs for healthcare professionals (HCPs).

Responsibilities

• Drive a comprehensive medical education grant strategy, including identifying gaps in educational needs and making funding decisions.
• Manage the end-to-end review of incoming medical education grant requests, ensuring full alignment with corporate policies and regulatory guidelines.
• Oversee a compliant grants management system, including grant review committee facilitation, contracting, budget planning, audit readiness, and the development of project management tools, reports, and program timelines.
• Partner with the Finance department to develop, manage, and track budgets; facilitate contracting processes; and actively participate in annual budget planning and forecasting cycles.
• Prepare and deliver comprehensive reports covering grants tracking, program status, key metrics, and outcomes analyses for Medical Affairs internal stakeholders; establish, maintain, and lead training on data management systems that support the review/approval process, archiving, and maintenance of all grants programs.
• Identify and communicate key findings related to educational gaps, emerging updates, and enhancements needed to strengthen medical education and grants strategy.
• Maintain proactive communication with medical education providers to facilitate timely outcomes reporting, metrics collection, reconciliation, follow-up, and program close-outs; attend and observe supported medical education programs, both online and on-site as needed, to ensure quality and compliance.
• Ensure all Medical Education Grants processes adhere to Insmed policies and SOPs, as well as applicable regulatory guidelines, including FDA, PhRMA, OIG, AMA, ACCME, Sunshine Act, etc.
• Support standardization across global geographies and country regulations to ensure consistent, compliant, and best-in-class educational/grants resources.
• Drive continual process improvement to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Manage additional grant types as needed including charitable donations, medical sponsorships, research awards, quality improvement programs, and external research such as investigator-initiated research, research grants, and collaborative research.

Requirements

You have a Bachelor’s degree along with 8+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry, primarily in Medical Affairs/ Medical Education Grants management. You have expert knowledge of relevant guidelines including, but not limited to medical and regulatory affairs, drug development, FDA and regulatory guidelines (i.e., PhRMA guidelines, OIG, AMA, ACCME, Sunshine Act, etc.).

You have strategic thinking with ability to connect multiple components, leadership presence and ability to present and engage across the organization, strong communication skills and ability to build effective relationships with internal partners, enable creative problem solving, encourages unique solutions, and effectively solves challenges problems, flexible approach to changing priorities and business needs, forward-looking with continuous process improvement mentality, experience in management of grants management system and ability to create, track and plan timelines and budgets, experience managing external vendors and providing clear, concise direction, highly organized with a strong attention to detail, clarity, accuracy and conciseness, and demonstrated ability to work effectively within collaborative and cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

Nice to have (but not required): advanced degree preferred (PharmD, PhD, MD, NP-C).

Benefits

Insmed offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage and mental health support, generous paid time off policies, fertility and family-forming benefits, caregiver support, and flexible work schedules with purposeful in-person collaboration. We also offer a 401(k) plan with a competitive company match, annual equity awards, and participation in our Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), and company-paid life and disability insurance. We are committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. We use an Automated Employment Decision Tool (“AEDT”) to analyze and score information provided in resumes and application materials, and we provide information about the type of data collected, the source of that data, and data retention practices related to the AEDT.