Senior Director, Regional Medical Science Liaison Team Lead - West

The Opportunity:

Reporting to the Executive Director of Field Medical Affairs, the Sr. Director will manage and coach a lung regional field medical team, oversee the regional field implementation plan and develop, deploy, and monitor key performance indicators and encourage individual professional development goals across the team. You will drive regional thought leader engagement strategy, foster scientific exchange, and lead insight generation strategies. Importantly, you will foster and identify opportunities to collaborate across functions and be instrumental in launch planning and execution.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced leader to join our team as a Lung Regional Manager of Medical Science Liaisons. Key aspects of this front-line manager role will include: developing, mentoring, and coaching a team of MSL direct reports across approximately one half of the country.

Required Skills, Experience and Education:

• Collaborates with Field Medical Executive Director to build the Lung Revolution Medicines Field Medical Team (recruiting, hiring, and onboarding).

• Provides critical input into Lung Field Medical Team strategic and tactical plans, overseeing execution of plans across aligned region.

• Assists in the development of new field medical processes such as medical insight reporting, territory planning, congress coverage, investigator-sponsored research, etc.

• Fosters a culture of empowerment, collaboration, and focus on patient impact across regional and national field medical teams. 

• Mentors, coaches and identifies opportunities for professional development for each MSL direct report.

• Oversees execution of stakeholder engagement strategy across regional and community healthcare providers, including academic institutions and community centers across the aligned region to ensure timely and accurate scientific communication.

• Monitors key performance indicators across region; deliver and communicate reports and trends to senior leadership as needed.

• Identifies opportunities to support compliant and effective cross-functional collaboration across Clinical Development, Medical Affairs and Commercial teams, as needed and appropriate.

• In collaboration with Clinical Development and Clinical Operations, develop and lead efforts to develop site identification/recommendation and clinical trial support plans.

• Exhibits significant leadership experience in the pharmaceutical industry with the ability to work independently and collaboratively in cross functional team environment.

• Encourages collaboration, innovation and new ideas while integrating information from various sources.

• Demonstrates ability to develop and foster relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

• Drives results; creates and nurtures a performance-based culture of continuous improvement, addressing concerns and conflict proactively.

• Proven leadership, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.

• Highly effective presentation, communication, emotional intelligence, and interpersonal skills.

Preferred Skills:

• Advanced, medical/scientific doctoral level degree required: MD, PharmD, PhD.

• Demonstrated ability to create departmental capabilities, processes, and procedures to ensure alignment with desired outcomes.

• 10+ years of experience in the Pharmaceutical or Biotech Industry with Medical Affairs.

• 5+ years of experience in a leadership role managing Field Medical teams.

• 5+ years of lung targeted therapy experience.

• Global product launch experience.

• Demonstrated expertise in oncology.

• Demonstrated experience recruiting, hiring, and retaining Field Medical talent.

• Demonstrated leadership skills (proactive, strategic, creates a highly accountable team culture, provides clear direction), project management and organizational skills, with the ability to evaluate competing priorities to arrive at an appropriate decision.

• Collaborative, team-based approach; ability to network and partner with internal and external stakeholders, including medical thought-leaders and a wide range healthcare professionals.

• Thorough understanding of applicable regulatory requirements for field-based personnel and PhRMA guidelines, including geographic regulatory related guidelines.

• Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of Field Medical best practices.

• Experience in recruiting, on-boarding, managing, coaching, and retaining talent.

• Effective oral, written, and interpersonal skills required. 

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