Director, Thought Leader Liaison – Sjögren’s Disease

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

📋 Description

• Establish and manage the national Thought Leader Liaison team focused on Sjögren’s disease.

• Develop the TLL strategy and annual operating plan in alignment with the brand strategy, launch priorities, and specific measurable objectives.

• Recruit, guide, mentor, and cultivate a high-performing national TLL team.

• Create engagement strategies for leading and emerging experts across pertinent specialties.

• Collaborate with Marketing on speaker strategies, peer-to-peer initiatives, professional societies, and congress participation.

• Convert field insights, customer feedback, market research, and competitive intelligence into actionable recommendations for brand strategy, launch planning, and customer experience enhancement.

• Coordinate launch preparedness and execution with Marketing, Medical Affairs, Field Medical, Sales, Market Access, Patient Access, R&D, Advocacy, and Commercial Operations.

• Manage TLL budgets, resource distribution, agency partnerships, and program performance metrics.

• Ensure team activities and external interactions adhere to commercial, regulatory, legal, and compliance standards.

• Promote collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and accountability within the team and across the launch organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Doctorate degree with 4 years of marketing experience; OR Master's degree with 8 years of marketing/commercial experience; OR Bachelor's degree with 10 years of marketing/commercial experience.

• MBA is preferred.

• Proven success in leading pharmaceutical or biotechnology product launches.

• Experience in launching first-in-class therapies and developing markets in areas with significant unmet needs is preferred.

• Demonstrated ability to lead amidst uncertainty and rapidly changing competitive environments.

• Experience in building commercial organizations and guiding teams through pre-launch and launch phases is preferred.

• Significant US marketing experience with the development of integrated commercial strategies.

• Experience in hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams.

• Strong cross-functional leadership capabilities and executive communication skills.

• Experience in autoimmune diseases, immunology, rheumatology, or rare diseases is preferred.

• Experience collaborating with Medical Affairs, Market Access, Sales, and Global Marketing.

• Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to convert insights into impactful commercial strategies.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive employee benefits package.

• Retirement and Savings Plan featuring generous company contributions.

• Group medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Flexible spending accounts.

• Discretionary annual bonus program.

• Stock-based long-term incentives.

• Award-winning time-off policies.

• Flexible work models where feasible.

• Opportunities for career development.

• Support for work/life balance.