Director, US Medical Rheumatology

Responsibilities

Overarching Responsibilities:

• Tactical accountability grounded in science, disease state, competitive clinical data in support of one or more products.
• TA and/or product focus may evolve, to support the priorities of the organization.
• 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.
• Execute against the US Product medical strategy:
• 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.
• Develop and maintain medical landscape and insights to inform strategy.
• Collaborate with PM (as applicable) to develop and maintain medical landscape and insights to inform strategy.
• Medical Expert:
• 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).
• External Engagement:
• 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).
• Budget Management:
• Subject to delegation from the Vice President/Sr Director(s) or the needs of the program.
• Execution / Content Creation:
• 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.
• Internal Engagement:
• Subject to delegation from the Vice President/Sr Director(s) or the needs of the program.

Qualifications

Required:

• 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.

Licenses/Certifications:

• Maintain minimum standards of education/certification in individual professional discipline.