Remote Vice President, Medical Affairs
Location | United States of America |
Discipline: | Medical & Pharmacovigilance |
Job type: | Permanent |
Salary: | £Compensation to be negotiated but will include excellent bonus and stock awards |
Contact name: | Stuart Gilboy |
Contact email: | stuart.gilboy@rbwconsulting.com |
Contact phone: | 16179821238 |
Job ref: | 21165 |
Published: | about 3 years ago |
Expiry date: | 26 Jul 2023 11:59 |
Location: Cambridge, MA or remote
Description
An oncology biotech is about to commercialize its lead asset in solid tumor oncology. You will lead launch activities and direct medical affairs strategy for the further pipeline of the company. The current launch meets a long unmet need bringing essential therapeutics to cancer patients. The company is based in Cambridge but the Vice President, Medical Affairs can be based anywhere in the USA.
Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, the Vice President, Medical Affairs will create and provide strategic vision, leadership, and management for key medical affairs activities, including consistent and aligned medical and scientific communications, cross-functional medical strategy, development and execution of Advisory Boards, KOL and other key customer identification and engagement, Medical Science Liaison leadership and guidance, publication strategy and planning, CME topics of interest and grant administration, and fostering relationships with key societies, physician networks, oncology cooperative groups and academic institutions. The successful candidate will be someone who has demonstrated success in combining strategic visionary and tactical operational skills and in building medical affairs capabilities from the ground up, defining the optimal strategy, and able to effectively execute on that strategy with their team and the cross-functional organization.
Responsibilities:
Lead and direct a world-class Medical Affairs function and infrastructure
Collaborate closely and interface with fellow Clinical and Commercial team members and all other functions to support our mission to develop great new cancer therapeutics and make them available to patients in need
Leadership role in Clinical Development strategies, clinical trial design, and identification of unmet needs for investigator-sponsored, company-sponsored and cooperative group trials
Work collaboratively with and influence external partners on global medical affairs strategies and provide oversight for execution and management of those strategies to meet worldwide needs and to enhance the value of the company
Provide senior leadership and global direction to a Medical Science Liaison team (US & EU) to support product life cycle activities, scientific/medical communications, and external scientific engagements
Establish strong professional rapport with key internal and external customer segments
Develop and oversee publication planning (in collaboration with clinical development), support protocol drafting, as requested, and contribute to development of evidence-based internal and external scientific/medical content.
Lead medical review of promotional and advertising strategies and implementation
Lead strategy and administration of external educational grants and continuing medical education support activities
Represent the Medical Affairs function in Executive Leadership Team meetings through demonstration of organizational value (KPIs), key activities, opportunities and challenges
Qualifications:
Advanced Scientific or Medical degree (s)
Demonstrated substantial Medical expertise in Oncology through clinical, research, and business activities
Minimum of 10 years of pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience, at least 8 of which should be in medical affairs
Experience building and/or running the entire Medical Affairs function in a commercialized company is required
Demonstrated success in building effective teams, systems, and processes; proven ability to identify, select and manage a variety of external resources related to execution of medical affairs functions
Ability to lead a team of functional experts and negotiate the multi-disciplinary environment in which they operate
Strategic and analytical thinking with the ability to plan and design effective medical affairs brand and life cycle strategies
Experience and expertise in clinical trial design, interpretation of scientific data, market research, competitive intelligence tools, and medical marketing strategies
High integrity, sense of urgency, ability to recognize time sensitivity, willingness to “roll up the sleeves” as necessary, and an appetite to lead all activities within the medical affairs functions
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, exceptional listening skills, strong presentation skills, and good negotiating and influencing skills
Available for domestic and international travel – up to 40% pre-COVID
Adept in using virtual and other “not-in-person” means to engage with internal and external stakeholders
For more information on this role please CLICK APPLY and forward an up to date resume or get in touch at stuart.gilboy@rbwconsulting.com
Compensation to be negotiated but will include excellent bonus and stock awards
Latest jobs
- Pharmaceutical Production Technician
-
Job location: Torbay
Pharmaceutical Production Technician This is ...
- Clinical Research Physician - 12 month contract - RELOCATION TO SWITZERLAND
-
Job location: Allschwil Job salary: £CHF 77.96
RBW Consulting are partnered with a global Bio...
- Clinical Trial Physician - 12 month contract - RELOCATION TO SWITZERLAND
-
Job location: Allschwil Job salary: £CHF 77.96
RBW Consulting are partnered with a global Bio...