Field Director, Medical Affairs

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and execute national field medical strategy, including territory design, deployment models, and scientific engagement plans.
• Recruit, scale, and directly manage approximately 5-7 MSLs, fostering a culture of coaching, mentoring, and high performance.
• Establish and maintain field excellence standards, including performance frameworks and KPIs.
• Personally engage in the field as a credible scientific peer, driving compliant scientific exchange with HCPs.
• Lead identification, mapping, and tiering of KOLs and high-impact clinicians.
• Coeown the medical insights process, translating insights into actionable recommendations.
• Build field medical infrastructure to support product launch and future indications.
• Partner cross-functionally with medical, commercial, and clinical teams for launch planning.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and industry guidelines governing scientific exchange.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION

• PharmD, MD, or PhD in a relevant scientific discipline required; candidates with a master's degree and substantial field medical leadership experience will be considered.
• 8+ years in Medical Affairs at a pharmaceutical or biotech company, with meaningful field medical leadership experience.
• Demonstrated track record of recruiting, hiring, building, scaling and managing MSL teams.
• Strong scientific credibility and ability to engage at a high level with KOLs and academic clinicians as well as community-based practitioners.
• Hands-on familiarity with MSL excellence standards, compliant scientific exchange, and field insights processes.
• Experience engaging both specialist and primary care audiences across health systems and community settings is highly desirable.
• Preferably, experience in smoking cessation, nicotine dependence, or an adjacent therapeutic area (pulmonology, cardiology, perioperative, oncology, acute medicine).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• A builder - energized by ambiguity, early-stage environments, the opportunity to shape something from the ground up
• Lets leads from the front; equally comfortable setting strategy and doing the field work without needing those to be different jobs
• Strong scientific communication skills with the ability to operate credibly across KOL, academic, and community clinical settings
• Organized, proactive, and able to operate autonomously in a fast-moving pre-launch environment
• Collaborative partner with the ability to work cross-functionally and bring the wider business along on field medical priorities

TRAVEL

• Approximately 50-60% travel required, including field engagement, team oversight, congresses, and key external meetings.