Senior Medical Director, Medical Affairs

Sets the overarching strategy and governance framework for how Medical Affairs engages internal and external stakeholders, including HCPs, KOLs, professional societies, and advocacy groups. Ensures KOL engagement activities across Field Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Patient Advocacy, and R&D are coordinated, compliant, and aligned to a unified medical narrative. Provides senior medical/scientific leadership on priority stakeholder relationships.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior medical representative of Dompé in cross-indication external forums — major congresses, professional society leadership meetings, and multi-stakeholder coalitions — where portfolio-wide scientific credibility matters more than any single asset.
• Build and maintain relationships with external bodies that don't map to a single indication (e.g., regulatory science forums, guideline committees, patient coalition umbrella groups), representing Dompé's overall medical position.
• Serve as the escalation point when external stakeholders raise cross-portfolio questions, ensuring a unified response rather than separate answers from individual Indication Leads.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure external medical messaging is consistent with Dompé's broader scientific reputation and positioning.
• Define the enterprise-wide medical engagement strategy and stakeholder mapping framework.
• Establish governance standards for KOL engagement, advisory boards, and scientific exchange.
• Ensure all engagement activities meet compliance, legal, and regulatory standards.
• Provide medical/scientific leadership on key strategic institutions and build relationships with priority portfolio-level Key Opinion Leaders.
• Partner with Field Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, Patient Advocacy, and R&D to ensure coordinated execution.
• Advise senior leadership on engagement strategy risks, opportunities, and emerging stakeholder needs.
• Serve as a senior medical voice in relationships with professional societies and guideline committees.
• Establish a consistent process for capturing engagement insights (from advisory boards, KOL interactions, and scientific exchange) and feeding them into evidence generation and communications planning.
• Report engagement trends and stakeholder sentiment to the Medical Affairs Leadership Team and broader leadership teams on a regular cadence.
• Identify emerging scientific or competitive themes surfaced through engagement and flag implications for medical strategy.

Requirements

• MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent advanced clinical/scientific degree.
• 8+ years in medical affairs, with direct experience in stakeholder or KOL engagement.
• Strong understanding of compliance frameworks governing HCP interactions.
• Demonstrated strategic planning and cross-functional leadership experience.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with external experts.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in a field medical or medical director role.
• Experience across multiple regions or countries.
• Track record designing engagement governance frameworks.

Skills

• Strategic governance: builds frameworks that keep engagement activity coordinated and compliant across functions.
• Stakeholder credibility: earns the trust of KOLs and external experts through scientific depth and reliability.
• Cross-functional orchestration: aligns Field Medical, Medical Communications, and Patient Advocacy around a shared engagement plan.
• Risk judgment: identifies compliance and reputational risks in engagement activity before they materialize.
• Mentorship: develops the judgment and scientific confidence of more junior medical directors.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits.
• Generous vacation and holiday time off.
• Competitive 401(K) matching.

Pay

Base Salary: $290,000 - $300,000 a year. Includes competitive base salary, incentive bonus, and benefits package. Actual individual pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, geographic location, and other job-related factors permitted by law.