Senior Director, Medical Strategy and Operations
About the role
This role will serve as a strategic and operational partner to the Vice President of Medical Affairs and Medical leadership team, responsible for ensuring that medical capabilities, processes, systems, and execution models are efficient, compliant, scalable, and aligned with Alumis’ growth strategy. The Senior Director, Medical Strategy and Operations, will advance key initiatives aimed at optimizing and showcasing the impact of the Medical Affairs team. This is a hands-on position that includes driving medical strategic initiatives, enhancing Medical Affairs systems, supporting critical medical insights processes, and developing innovative solutions to measure and report on Medical Affairs performance and impact. The role demands an individual who combines scientific knowledge with strong operational leadership to thrive in a fast-paced, agile environment and elevate medical affairs capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Strategic Leadership: Lead and drive the development and execution of initiatives that elevate the strategic and operational effectiveness of the Medical Affairs team in a consistent and scalable manner.
- Medical Affairs Systems Optimization:
- Oversee the design, implementation, and optimization of Medical Affairs systems to improve internal efficiencies and engagement and communications with key opinion leaders (KOLs), healthcare providers, and other relevant stakeholders.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, quality, and compliance across the Medical function.
- Implement best practices for operational metrics, KPIs, dashboards, and reporting to support data-driven decision-making.
- Medical Insights: Collaborate with Medical Affairs leadership to collect, analyze, and integrate valuable medical insights that inform strategic decisions and optimize the impact of medical programs.
- Content Management: Serve as Medical Affairs content owner through review and approval process for external-facing materials.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with Clinical Development, Marketing, Market Access, Commercial, Analytics, Compliance, and Regulatory to ensure alignment and integration of medical excellence within the broader organizational strategy.
- Guidance and SOP Development: Develop guidance documents and SOPs to foster consistency, clarity, and accountability across Medical Affairs.
- Planning, Budgeting & Resource Management:
- Lead medical annual planning, forecasting, and budget management.
- Optimize headcount planning, vendor strategy, and external spend to maximize impact and efficiency.
- Provide transparency and insights into medical investments and their impact.
Qualifications
- Experience: Minimum of 10 years in Medical Affairs leadership; proven experience in managing and optimizing medical operations, systems, content, and medical insights; experience in a fast-paced, small biotech environment a plus.
- Education: Advanced degree (PhD, MD, MBA, PharmD or similar).
- Leadership Skills: Exceptional leadership abilities with a demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams and drive change across complex medical operations; track record of effectively leading without authority.
- Operational Expertise: Strong experience in developing and managing Medical Affairs dashboards and other qualitative outcomes to measure impact and performance.
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to develop and implement strategic initiatives aligned cross-functionally that drive organizational goals and enhance the impact of Medical Affairs functions.
- Strong Communication: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
Pay
The salary range for this position is $265,000 USD to $310,000 USD annually. The actual salary may vary based on the Company’s compensation practices, degree, and background.
Benefits
- Generous stock option grants for all employees
- Annual bonus program
- Health insurance premiums paid at 90% for employee, 80% for dependents
- Free access to Genentech Bus & Ferry Share program
- $100 monthly cell phone stipend
- Unlimited PTO for Exempt employees
- Free onsite gym and a kitchen stocked with snacks and drinks