National Director – Field Medical Affairs, Oncology

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the strategy, development, and implementation of the client's field Medical Affairs program.

• Provide scientific and leadership guidance for a field-based MSL team focusing on NMIBC with CIS unresponsive to BCG.

• Convert the Medical Affairs plan into actionable field priorities, team capabilities, engagement objectives, insight-generation activities, and measurable execution plans.

• Recruit, onboard, nurture, coach, and retain a high-performing field Medical Affairs team.

• Set performance objectives, development plans, succession strategies, and coaching methodologies.

• Conduct field visits, individual meetings, team gatherings, and scientific development initiatives.

• Evaluate team capabilities and training needs while enhancing scientific fluency.

• Manage territory planning, external expert engagement, prioritization, resource allocation, and execution.

• Implement metrics and insights reporting for stakeholders.

• Transform Medical Affairs strategy into field objectives, workplans, scientific engagement priorities, and team activities.

• Direct field medical strategy, tactical plans, impact goals, and execution measures.

• Collaborate with Clinical Operations, Medical Information, Medical Education, Publications, and other Medical Affairs departments.

• Support advisory boards, congress strategies and implementations, scientific booths, investigator engagement, research projects, and evidence-generation initiatives.

• Represent the field Medical Affairs program in governance, client meetings, operational reviews, and strategic planning sessions.

• Develop processes for gathering, analyzing, and sharing actionable field medical insights.

• Prepare routine reporting for EVERSANA and client leadership.

• Ensure compliance with laws, regulations, policies, SOPs, privacy mandates, and client processes.

• Oversee budgets, vendors, resources, timelines, and deliverables.

• Assist with publication planning, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, oral presentations, congress submissions, and scientific communications.

• Work in tandem with internal Medical Affairs teams and external authors to produce publications and secure timely MLR approvals.

• Interview, select, manage, develop, and retain team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• An advanced scientific or clinical degree (MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, MSN, NP, PA-C) or an equivalent qualification is required.

• Proven success in leading and developing field-based Medical Affairs teams.

• A minimum of 4 years of industry experience is preferred.

• Over 2 years of demonstrated leadership experience managing field-based teams is preferred.

• Experience in developing and executing Medical Affairs strategies, field plans, training, stakeholder engagement, insight processes, and performance reporting.

• Strong scientific, clinical, strategic, operational, and business insight.

• Familiarity with relevant pharmaceutical industry regulations, OIG, FDA, privacy, and non-promotional Medical Affairs requirements.

• Proficiency in standard business technologies and field reporting or customer relationship management systems.

• Knowledge of personnel management, including recruitment, hiring, progressive discipline, coaching, and motivation.

• Experience in Oncology and GU Oncology is strongly preferred.

• Experience with product launches and start-up programs is strongly preferred.

• Knowledge in Uro Oncology and intravesical therapy, including immunotherapy and/or gene therapy is desired.

• Prior experience supporting account-based scientific exchanges to facilitate payer approvals.

• Required experience in IIT program development and field medical plan formulation.

• Willingness to travel 60% or more, including overnight trips.

• Ability to interpret and convey complex scientific, clinical, outcomes, economic, and value evidence.

• Capability to manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity, adapt to changing business needs, and foster cross-company collaboration.

🏝️ Benefits

• Option for remote work.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Reasonable accommodations during the hiring process.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.