Senior Director, Field Medical

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

📋 Description

• Lead, build, and expand Achieve’s Medical Science Liaison (MSL) team.

• Develop the field medical organization, recruit and onboard MSLs, and create team structure and capabilities.

• Establish a national field strategy, design territories, develop deployment models, prioritize accounts, and create scientific engagement plans.

• Set expectations for scientific engagement, coaching, mentoring, performance management, and professional growth.

• Ensure MSLs provide fair-balanced, non-promotional scientific exchanges with specialists and primary care clinicians.

• Guide the identification, mapping, and prioritization of KOLs, academic clinicians, and influential community practitioners.

• Create processes for capturing and synthesizing field intelligence.

• Convert field insights into strategic recommendations for Medical Affairs, evidence generation, publications, and launch planning.

• Develop processes, tools, training, and infrastructure to ensure launch readiness.

• Collaborate with Medical Affairs, Clinical, Regulatory, and Commercial teams.

• Manage field medical compliance expectations and guarantee adherence to regulatory requirements and industry standards.

• Ensure MSLs possess the necessary scientific knowledge, approved resources, and communication skills.

• Define and monitor performance indicators for field medical activities.

• Report directly to the Head of Medical Affairs.

⛳️ Requirements

• PharmD, MD, or PhD in a relevant scientific field.

• Over 12 years of experience in Medical Affairs within pharmaceutical or biotechnology companies.

• Significant experience in field medical leadership.

• Proven success in recruiting, developing, and leading MSL teams.

• Strong scientific credibility and capability to engage with KOLs, academic clinicians, specialists, and community practitioners.

• Experience in establishing field medical strategies, MSL excellence standards, compliant scientific exchange practices, and processes for field insights.

• Strong skills in people leadership, coaching, and performance management.

• Ability to translate field insights into actionable recommendations and effectively communicate field medical priorities across functions.

• Collaborative and proactive leadership approach.

• Capability to build structures and processes in a dynamic, pre-launch environment.

• Preferred: experience in smoking cessation, nicotine dependence, addiction medicine, or a related therapeutic area.

• Preferred: experience engaging with specialist and primary care audiences across various health systems and community settings.

• Preferred: experience in building a field medical organization prior to a commercial launch.

• Candidates may reside anywhere in the continental United States.

• Approximately 50–60% travel required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Company-paid life insurance.

• Short- and long-term disability coverage.

• Paid time off.

• Paid company holidays.

• Annual target bonus.

• Equity compensation.

• Remote work options.

• Approximately 50–60% travel for oversight of the field team, external scientific engagement, congresses, and key meetings.