Senior Director, Head of Field Medical
Neurogene Inc. · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. The posting includes: Brief Description (Company Background) maybe not needed as heading? The instructions: Use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. We need to decide which sections have content.
We have content: Position Overview – Remote - Field with 60% Travel Reports To The VP, Medical Affairs ... That's about the role. So we can have About the role section.
Responsibilities: The "Accountabilities and Responsibilities" section includes many bullet-like paragraphs. We can treat as Responsibilities.
Requirements: There's a "Requirements" heading then "Minimum Requirements" with Education, Experience etc. That's Requirements.
Qualifications: Possibly overlapping with Requirements; but we could separate Qualifications as maybe "Education" etc. However the posting lumps them. We could put Qualifications as same as Requirements? But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But they ask to use headings for those categories if content exists. We have content for Requirements (education, experience). Qualifications maybe not separate; we could omit Qualifications heading if no distinct content beyond Requirements. Skills: There's a "Knowledge, Skills And Attributes" section. That's Skills.
Benefits, Pay, Schedule: Not mentioned. So we omit those sections.
Thus output HTML with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills.
We need to use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading. We need to decide which sections have content.
We have content: Position Overview – Remote - Field with 60% Travel Reports To The VP, Medical Affairs ... That's about the role. So we can have About the role section.
Responsibilities: The "Accountabilities and Responsibilities" section includes many bullet-like paragraphs. We can treat as Responsibilities.
Requirements: There's a "Requirements" heading then "Minimum Requirements" with Education, Experience etc. That's Requirements.
Qualifications: Possibly overlapping with Requirements; but we could separate Qualifications as maybe "Education" etc. However the posting lumps them. We could put Qualifications as same as Requirements? But we need to avoid duplication. The instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one section? But they ask to use headings for those categories if content exists. We have content for Requirements (education, experience). Qualifications maybe not separate; we could omit Qualifications heading if no distinct content beyond Requirements. Skills: There's a "Knowledge, Skills And Attributes" section. That's Skills.
Benefits, Pay, Schedule: Not mentioned. So we omit those sections.
Thus output HTML with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Skills.
We need to use for each heading, then content: use
for prose,
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Must not include boilerplate like EEO etc. The posting includes a lot of prose; we need to capture it. We need to extract the content for each section. About the role: Should include Position Overview paragraph(s). Let's capture: "Position Overview – Remote - Field with 60% Travel Reports To The VP, Medical Affairs Neurogene is seeking an experienced and highly collaborative Senior Director, Head of Field Medical to build and lead our U.S. Medical Science Liaison (MSL) organization. This leader will be responsible for developing a high-performing field medical team and establishing the strategy, culture, capabilities, and operating model required to support Neurogene as we advance toward potential commercialization. This is a critical leadership role within Medical Affairs. The Senior Director will translate Medical Affairs strategy into meaningful field execution, ensuring our MSL organization builds trusted scientific relationships with healthcare professionals, treatment centers, investigators, and other key external stakeholders while bringing high-quality insights back into the organization. The ideal candidate is a proven field medical leader and team builder who understands that excellence in rare disease requires curiosity, credibility, strong judgment, exceptional people leadership, and an ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, rapidly evolving biotech environment, in addition to scientific expertise. The successful candidate will be a builder, coach and leader who can create an exceptional field organization from the ground up. Experience in rare disease, pediatric neurology, genetic medicine, and/or gene therapy is highly valued, and we are equally interested in exceptional leaders who have demonstrated the ability to build and lead outstanding field medical organizations in complex specialty or rare disease environments. This leader should be equally comfortable setting strategy and tactical planning, coaching an MSL after a customer interaction and contributing to broader Medical Affairs planning; challenging conventional thinking and listening carefully when the field tells us something we need to hear. Most importantly, this leader will understand that in rare disease, every interaction matters. The quality of the team we build, the relationships we establish, and what we learn from the community will directly influence our ability to serve patients and families well." That's the About the role. Responsibilities: The "Accountabilities and Responsibilities" section includes multiple bullet-like paragraphs. We need to turn each into
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- Build and Lead a World-Class Field Medical Team
- Recruit, onboard, develop, coach, and retain a high-performing team of MSLs capable of operating with scientific credibility, independence, and sound judgment.
- Establish a strong field medical culture grounded in scientific excellence, patient focus, accountability, collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning.
- Create clear expectations for performance and provide consistent coaching, feedback, development, and career mentorship.
- Spend meaningful time in the field alongside MSLs to understand customers, assess effectiveness, coach performance, and remain connected to the evolving external environment.
- Build the capabilities and infrastructure necessary for the field organization to scale as Neurogene progresses toward potential launch.
- Serve as a hands-on leader and coach during the build and transition period, stepping directly into field, scientific, and stakeholder-facing activities as needed while the organization scales.
- Field Medical Strategy & Execution
- Partner with Medical Affairs leadership to develop and execute the U.S. field medical strategy aligned with broader medical, clinical development, and organizational priorities.
- Translate Medical Affairs objectives into clear, actionable field plans and ensure consistent, high-quality execution across the MSL organization.
- Establish the field medical operating model, including territory and account planning, stakeholder prioritization, engagement standards, congress coverage, insight generation, and appropriate performance measures.
- Continuously evaluate field priorities and resource deployment as the clinical, competitive, and treatment landscape evolves.
- Ensure the team maintains deep scientific expertise in the disease state, clinical program, treatment landscape, emerging science, and competitive environment.
- External Scientific Engagement
- Guide the development of meaningful, long-term scientific relationships with key opinion leaders, investigators, healthcare professionals, treatment centers, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Ensure high-quality, balanced, and scientifically rigorous peer-to-peer exchange.
- Support engagement with emerging experts and multidisciplinary stakeholders involved in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of patients with rare neurologic diseases.
- Provide leadership and coordination for field medical activities at major scientific congresses, investigator meetings, and other external engagements.
- Maintain personal relationships with select national and strategic thought leaders as appropriate.
- Partner with the broader Medical Affairs organization to support external scientific communications and stakeholder engagement, ensuring a consistent scientific narrative across audiences and channels.
- Support scientifically rigorous, compliant engagement with payer and healthcare system decision makers, recognizing the distinct evidence needs associated with one-time, high-complexity gene therapies.
- Insights & Organizational Learning
- Build a disciplined approach to identifying, synthesizing, communicating, and acting upon insights generated through field engagement.
- Ensure insights go beyond activity reporting and meaningfully inform Medical Affairs strategy, evidence generation, clinical development, education, stakeholder engagement, and launch planning.
- Identify emerging scientific, clinical, competitive, and operational trends and ensure important information is communicated rapidly and effectively across the organization.
- Partner with Medical Affairs leadership to continually refine field strategy based on external learning.
- Field Medical Enablement & Resource Development
- Collaborate with internal medical affairs teams to drive the development of scientific resources, tools, and training that equip MSLs for meaningful, high-quality scientific engagement.
- Ensure field-facing resources and platforms evolve alongside the clinical program, emerging data, and the external environment.
- Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve as a trusted partner across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory, Commercial, Market Access, Patient Advocacy, and other functions while maintaining appropriate Medical Affairs independence and compliance.
- Represent the field medical perspective in cross-functional planning and decision-making.
- Help the organization understand the evolving needs of treatment centers and healthcare professionals as Neurogene prepares for the potential introduction of a novel gene therapy.
- Play a critical role in supporting treatment site readiness and implementation, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure centers are scientifically and operationally prepared to evaluate and adopt a novel gene therapy.
- Ensure the MSL team is structured and deployed to meet the needs of treating centers, referral networks, and the broader care community, adjusting coverage as the treatment landscape evolves.
- Contribute broadly as a leader within a growing organization, supporting priorities across the wider Medical Affairs organization where responsibilities may extend beyond traditional functional boundaries.
- Compliance & Operational Excellence
- Ensure all field medical activities are conducted in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, industry standards, and Neurogene policies.
- Establish appropriate objectives, metrics, systems, processes, and operating rhythms to assess effectiveness and continually improve field medical execution.
- Manage field medical resources and budgets responsibly.
- Partner with Medical Operations and other functions to ensure systems, training, processes, and tools effectively support the field organization.
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Requirements: The "Minimum Requirements" includes Education, Experience, etc. We'll create
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Education: Advanced scientific or clinical degree (PharmD, PhD, MD/DO, PA, NP, MPH)
Experience: 10+ years of biopharmaceutical industry experience, including preferred minimum 6 years in Medical Affairs with significant field-based experience including leading field medical teams, (hiring, developing, and managing MSL teams) Experience leading field medical through at least one product launch strongly preferred Strong understanding of field medical strategy, scientific exchange, insight generation, KOL engagement, and Medical Affairs compliance. Experience in rare disease, neurology, and/or pediatric disease, ideally within gene therapy, genetic medicine, or another advanced therapeutic modality Pre-launch, launch, and/or early commercialization experience supporting therapies that require specialized treatment centers, multidisciplinary coordination, extensive site preparation, and payer or access-related scientific engagement Strong scientific acumen and the ability to rapidly develop expertise in complex diseases and novel therapeutic modalities. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills with demonstrated ability to influence across functions and levels of an organization. Comfort operating as both a leader and an individual contributor during periods of transition and growth. Ability to thrive in a fast-moving biotech environment characterized by evolving priorities, ambiguity, and significant individual accountability. Willingness to travel extensively to support field engagement, team development, scientific meetings, and other business needs.
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Skills: "Knowledge, Skills And Attributes" section includes many bullet-like sentences. We'll create
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List:
- Ability to understand and articulate complex medical and scientific information to internal and external stakeholders and tailor information to specific audiences.
- Outstanding presentation, written, and oral communication skills.
- Ability to identify, cultivate, and maintain key external relationships with key stakeholders.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and projects.
- Ability to prioritize and manage expectations while analyzing complex issues.
- Thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment while remaining agile and adaptive.
- Flexibility to learn new skills, adapt within a fast-paced, dynamic environment, work without having the complete picture, and handle uncertainty.
- Ability to maintain the highest degree of confidentiality and integrity; uphold the company’s high ethics and professionalism.
- Adhere to corporate compliance policies in all activities, including those related to clinical trials, scientific interactions with internal and external groups, and unsolicited requests for medical/scientific information.
- Continuous strong focus on meeting or exceeding expectations in executing deliverables, performance and results (the text cut off but we keep as is).
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