Director, US Medical Rheumatology

Responsibilities

• Tactical accountability grounded in science, disease state, competitive clinical data in support of one or more products.
• In collaboration with Vice President/Sr Director(s), oversee execution of medical strategies by the medical unit and partner with the PM to track progress against strategic plans, including the development + communication of periodic reports.
• Support Vice President/Sr Director(s) to Lead/co-develop/coordinate with the medical unit and provide medical input into the near-term strategic direction for assigned product/franchise and/or specific area of focus.
• Support development and ongoing updates to relevant product specific medical strategies, in partnership with Vice President/Sr Director(s). And medical unit, and in alignment with the commercial brand strategy and global product teams.
• Support development of long-term lifecycle management strategy + tactics (HEOR etc.).
• Collaborate with PM (as applicable) to develop and maintain medical landscape and insights to inform strategy.
• Generate Insights – Support execution of ad board strategy, which may be done in partnership with the PM (as applicable), and insights from field medical/additional sources.
• Understand and Communicate Insights: Synthesize summarized insights + implications from relevant sources (e.g., ad boards, field medical) to medical unit and cross-functional stakeholders and update medical landscape + medical strategy (as appropriate).
• Support insights developed through Advisory Boards, professional associations/meetings, and conferences etc.
• Manage global interactions with US KOLs and vice versa (subject to delegation from the Vice President/Sr Director(s) or the needs of the program).
• Partner with the medical unit functional leads to ensure strategic alignment related to execution of the relevant franchise / product medical strategy and how it is pulled through into tactics (e.g. Grants, Medical Communications (e.g. SCP, ICP, Slide Decks), Publications, Research, Field Medical, Etc.).
• Support medical review of appropriate materials as part of medical and commercial review processes.
• Subject to delegation from the Vice President/Sr Director(s) or the needs of the program.

Qualifications

• Advanced Doctoral Degree (e.g., MD, DO, PhD, PharmD) or other advanced degreed professionals considered depending on past relevant experience, including at least 4 years pharmaceutical industry experience, and/or clinical work, research, or academic endeavors.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience with clinical research, publication activities, congress presentations, and public speaking.

Skills

• Demonstrated strategic enterprise thinking finding innovative ways to serve patients, and building trust, reputation, and business.
• Creates an environment that inspires and enables people to move the organization forward.
• Focuses on a few priorities and delivers superior results.
• Elevates the capabilities of the organization for now and the future.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and influence up, down, and cross-functionally with the ability to influence internally, and externally.
• Executive Presence & strategic storytelling.
• Ability to oversee and delegate, and manage stakeholders.