Associate Director, Thought Leader Engagement

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

📋 Description

• Implement and support the engagement strategy for commercial thought leaders for AVMAPKI FAKZYNJA CO-PACK within the designated West region.

• Identify, connect, and cultivate professional relationships with national and regional leaders in ovarian cancer and gynecologic oncology.

• Convert customer insights into actionable strategies and execute regional engagement initiatives.

• Collaborate with Marketing leadership to design and implement regional thought leader engagement strategies that align with brand objectives and commercial goals.

• Establish and sustain relationships with gynecologic oncologists, medical oncologists, and other pertinent healthcare professionals in both academic and community environments.

• Collect, analyze, and communicate insights regarding the ovarian cancer treatment landscape, LGSOC care pathways, biomarker testing, educational needs, and challenges to appropriate on-label use.

• Assist in the strategy and execution of thought leader advisory committees and speaker programs, including identification, onboarding, approved training, and content development.

• Oversee program quality, operational execution, business alignment, and compliance requirements.

• Organize commercial thought leader engagements at national and regional medical conferences, including engagement planning, meeting logistics, and follow-up.

• Collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Market Access, Commercial Analytics, Medical Affairs, Legal, Regulatory, Compliance, and external agencies.

• Manage assigned budgets, timelines, and financial reporting.

• Coordinate statements of work, purchase orders, HCP contracting, and payment processing.

• Conduct engagements in accordance with company policies and regulations governing HCP interactions and pharmaceutical promotion.

• Direct unsolicited medical inquiries to Medical Affairs and report adverse events and product complaints through established company protocols.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.

• At least 8 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical sector.

• Field-based experience in areas such as thought leader engagement, sales leadership, district management, or account management.

• Strong project management capabilities, including the ability to manage multiple initiatives, competing priorities, budgets, and timelines.

• Capacity to build professional external relationships and foster effective cross-functional collaborations.

• Ability to influence without direct authority and lead inclusively.

• Skill in synthesizing customer insights and clearly communicating implications and recommendations.

• Exceptional communication, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.

• Strategic and enterprise-wide perspective with a hands-on, customer-centric, solution-focused approach.

• Ability to work independently in a remote, field-based role alongside multidisciplinary teams, agencies, and vendors.

• Understanding of compliance and regulatory standards governing commercial HCP engagement and pharmaceutical promotion.

• Capability to obtain and maintain the necessary healthcare industry representative credentialing for access to assigned facilities.

• Valid driver's license and ability to adhere to applicable company safe-driving standards.

• Preferred: experience in oncology, especially ovarian cancer, gynecologic oncology, or low-grade serous ovarian cancer.

• Preferred: experience in rare diseases or specialty therapeutics.

• Preferred: experience in supporting an oncology product launch, commercial thought leader engagement, advisory boards, speaker programs, and conference planning.

• Preferred: experience within a small or mid-sized biotechnology firm with evolving processes and limited resources.

🏝️ Benefits

• Approximately 60% domestic travel, including field engagements, office visits, internal meetings, and medical conferences.

• Remote, field-based work arrangement.

• Full-time employment.