Associate Director, Medical Affairs

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as a subject matter expert by converting clinical evidence, stakeholder insights, and new scientific developments into strategic recommendations for Medical Affairs.

• Establish and uphold compliant relationships with Key Thought Leaders (KTLs) and external scientific experts.

• Organize and facilitate scientific exchanges, congress meetings, advisory boards, roundtables, consensus initiatives, and other related engagements.

• Create engagement plans for KTLs, including objectives, interaction strategies, documentation of insights, and follow-up activities.

• Provide scientific oversight for national and selected regional congresses, which includes program evaluation, session prioritization, coverage strategies, KTL preparation, insight gathering, and post-congress summaries.

• Oversee the scientific execution of Medical Affairs booths, focusing on educational strategy, content creation, onsite scientific discussions, handling or routing medical inquiries, capturing insights, and reporting findings.

• Create and sustain medical education materials, resources for congresses, presentations, standard response letters, FAQs, and other non-promotional communications.

• Assist with publication planning, including literature reviews, abstracts, posters, manuscripts, white papers, and governance reviews for publications.

• Conduct literature surveillance and synthesize findings in scientific, clinical, safety, and competitive areas.

• Gather and analyze insights to pinpoint evidence gaps, educational needs, stakeholder barriers, and strategic opportunities.

• Represent Medical Affairs on cross-functional teams, offering scientific expertise to Regulatory, Quality, Commercial, and other internal stakeholders.

• Serve as a trained backup for designated Pharmacovigilance, Medical Information, and Product Complaint activities.

• Execute other duties in line with the scope and level of the position.

⛳️ Requirements

• An advanced scientific or healthcare degree, such as a PharmD, PhD, MD, DO, or an equivalent relevant degree.

• A minimum of four years of pertinent pharmaceutical experience is preferred, including experience in Medical Affairs.

• Familiarity with U.S. regulations and industry standards related to Medical Affairs, scientific exchange, pharmacovigilance, Medical Information, and product complaints.

• Previous experience in Pharmacovigilance, Medical Information, or product complaints is preferred; the ability to complete role-based training and serve as a designated backup for specific activities is essential.

• Capacity to critically assess clinical and real-world evidence, evaluate references, synthesize complex information, and convey balanced conclusions to both scientific and non-scientific audiences.

• Strong skills in organization, stakeholder management, presentation, and written communication.

• Ability to work autonomously, manage competing priorities, exercise sound judgment, identify and escalate risks, and collaborate effectively within a lean, cross-functional organization.

• Experience in KTL engagement, scientific exchange, congress planning or coverage, and crafting scientific communications is preferred.

• Willingness to travel overnight up to 20%, including attendance at scientific congresses and external stakeholder engagements.

• Occasional evening or weekend work may be required in relation to congresses.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility for an annual bonus.

• Comprehensive benefits package.

• Opportunity for remote work.

• Occasional travel, estimated at 20%.