Senior Director, Patient Advocacy

Role Summary

The Senior Director, Patient Advocacy leads Regeneron’s disease area enterprise-wide advocacy strategy and operating model, integrating the patient voice across the continuum of discovery, development, and commercialization. This leader exercises independent judgment in ambiguous environments, influences executive decision-making, and builds scalable processes that elevate patient impact, operational efficiency, and company reputation. The role serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and a visible ambassador to advocacy and professional organizations.

About the role

This role is based in Sleep Hollow, NY, 4 days/week.

Impact And Scope

• Develops the overarching patient advocacy strategy across multiple therapeutic areas, with enterprise visibility and executive engagement
• Establishes standard methodologies and governance for engagement with advocacy and professional societies
• Advise cross-functional contributors in Medical, Commercial, Market Access, Policy, and Clinical Development with view to multi-year roadmap on advocacy strategy
• Accountable for measurable improvements in disease awareness, time to diagnosis, clinical trial awareness, access, and patient experience
• Operates at both strategic and operational level; drives outcomes through cross-functional leadership

Roles And Responsibilities

• Strategy and Leadership
• Define and evolve the disease area patient advocacy strategy, translating corporate objectives into a prioritized, outcome-based portfolio
• Standardize engagement frameworks, decision rights, and operating mechanisms that scale across therapeutic areas and regions
• Anticipate external trends and policy shifts as well as shifting company priorities to frame and be comfortable and strategic about recommending tactical choices and trade-offs with clear implications for patients and the business
• Help establish governance and operating mechanisms that support alignment, speed and accountability across department

Executive Engagement and Influence

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives; deliver board-ready materials that articulate patient impact, risks, and investment options
• Lead executive forums and steering committees to drive aligned decisions across competing priorities

Relationship Management

• Lead relationship development with key patient advocacy and professional societies to build durable, mission-aligned partnerships
• Ensure Regeneron’s leadership position is evident through presence at priority events; synthesize and disseminate insights to internal stakeholders

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Alignment

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with Medical, Commercial/Brand, Market Access, Government Affairs, Health Policy, Clinical Development, and Legal/Compliance
• Drive cross-functional alignment (including at top senior leadership levels, e.g. VP level) and execution of advocacy initiatives; co-create plans with Alliance partners where applicable
• Contribute to departmental strategy, annual planning, budgeting, and digital portal development

Patient Voice and Insights

• Systematically capture and translate patient insights to inform clinical trial design, evidence generation, disease education, patient services, and access strategies
• Champion a patient-centric mindset and embed patient perspectives in enterprise decisions and roadmaps

Financial and Business Acumen

• Own budgeting and optimize for impact
• Grants and Governance
• Strategically fund programs that advance patient engagement and disease education aligned to therapeutic priorities
• Define and report outcome-based KPIs; implement dashboards to monitor reach, quality, and ROI of advocacy efforts

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of industry experience, including 10-15+ years in Patient Advocacy leading multi-stakeholder programs
• Demonstrated enterprise thinking with a track record of cross-functional visibility, influence and company-wide impact
• Executive presence with superior communication skills; able to craft concise, data-driven narratives and board-ready materials
• Proven operational rigor: building repeatable processes, governance, and metrics with measurable outcomes
• Experience collaborating with Medical, Commercial, Market Access, and Policy partners; strong familiarity with compliance in advocacy contexts

Preferred Experience

• Experience in rare diseases, oncology, hematology, ophthalmology, immunology, and/or cardio-metabolic
• Background operating in complex, matrixed, or global environments; alliance management experience