Associate Director Medical Affairs, Northeast

Description

The US Associate Director, Medical Affairs Northeast will serve as a liaison to the medical/scientific community and will be responsible for establishing, developing, and maintaining relationships with prominent experts in pediatric neurology and in epilepsy within the geographic area of coverage. This position reports to the Medical Director, Orphan Drug Division.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build, maintain, and manage professional relationships with Key External Experts (KEEs) to organize networks at state levels within their designated region
• Ensure the appropriate dissemination of clinical and scientific information regarding marketed and pipeline compounds in a timely, ethical and health care provider (HCP)-focused manner
• Implement clinical and educational strategies in collaboration with other company colleagues for designated HCPs/KEEs. This includes organizing medical and scientific training sessions, conferences and symposiums in medical centers and during scientific congresses in the US
• Contribute to an efficient organization of medical communication activities for the marketed drug
• Execute and support department projects as directed by the Medical Officer
• Report pharmacovigilance (PV), product quality (PQ), or medical information (MI) requests within 24 hours, per the Standard Operating Procedures for PV, PQ, and MI reporting
• Ensure competitive and scientific intelligence is communicated to medical and leadership team
• Input all KEE/HCP interactions in company’s software platform(s) in a timely manner. The minimum requirement is weekly input
• Work to pair our KEE/HCP educational and research questions with the latest emerging data in response to specific healthcare professional inquiries

QUALIFICATIONS

• Advanced scientific degree preferred (MD, PhD, PharmD), and will consider DNP, or clinically equivalent if appropriate experience (e.g., APRN, PA, RPh)
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry (preferred) as a field-based medical position (MSL or similar) to provide strategic and scientific/medical direction to national/regional business unit functions
• Preferred experience in rare disease; and/or neurology or pediatrics
• Knowledge of FDA Regulations and Medical Affairs SOPs and Guidelines
• Ability to respond appropriately to needs of key stakeholders and manage expectations; excellent project management skills and follow through
• Excellent data analysis skills; strong understanding of clinical databases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and exceptional interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under deadline in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of flexibility
• Excellent problem-solving skills required
• Ability to effectively facilitate meetings and cross-functional teams
• Project management experience (timelines, documents, reporting) preferred

EDUCATION

• Advanced scientific or clinical degree preferred (MD, PharmD, PhD)

REQUIREMENTS - SKILLS, ABILITIES, AND TRAVEL

• A reliable team-player with strong organizational, project management, detail oriented, and communication skills
• Proactive work style
• Ability to be resilient, flex, and adapt to internal and external change
• Work collaboratively across the organization
• Autonomous and ability to work in fast-changing and multi-tasking environment
• Ability to manage and communicate in a scientific and medical environment
• Strong management and leadership capabilities
• Excellent writing skills
• A valid unrestricted driver’s license
• The US Field-Based position is associated with a minimum of 60% time in the field while customer facing