Vice President – Field Medical Affairs

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

📋 Description

• Develop and take responsibility for the US Field Medical strategy, operating model, and annual field medical plan.

• Create MSL territory deployment, segmentation methodologies, and resource models for pre-launch, launch, and post-launch phases.

• Set field medical objectives, KPIs, and frameworks for performance measurement.

• Lead scenario planning for field expansion in accordance with labeling, geographic, and lifecycle milestones.

• Build, guide, and retain a high-performing national MSL organization, including Field Medical Directors and regional leaders.

• Recruit, onboard, mentor, and develop MSL talent; create career pathways, competency models, and succession plans.

• Promote scientific excellence, compliance, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration across a geographically diverse team.

• Oversee departmental budgets, field technology tools, and vendor partnerships.

• Act as a senior field-facing scientific leader in allergy and immunology, particularly in food allergy, immune tolerance mechanisms, and EPIT™.

• Direct field medical engagement toward the allergy/immunology and pediatric allergy communities.

• Represent DBV field medical at allergy/immunology congresses and maintain scientific credibility with leading allergists and immunologists.

• Ensure compliant scientific exchanges with external experts, treating clinicians, and healthcare systems.

• Personally engage with senior external experts and academic thought leaders.

• Oversee field medical support for congresses, medical advisory boards, and investigator-facing activities.

• Design and implement the field insight-generation system, translating insights into strategic recommendations.

• Contribute field perspectives to evidence generation planning and publication/congress strategies.

• Lead Field Medical launch readiness for Viaskin Peanut, including scientific training, disease-state education, and territory activation.

• Prepare field capabilities for future indications and geographic expansion.

• Ensure adherence to regulations, guidelines, and company policies governing scientific exchanges.

• Collaborate with Legal and Compliance to define, train, and supervise field rules of engagement.

• Participate in the Medical Affairs leadership team and represent Field Medical in launch governance, executive reviews, and Board-facing medical updates.

⛳️ Requirements

• MD, PharmD, PhD, or another advanced scientific/clinical degree.

• Over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry, with significant experience in Medical Affairs.

• Extensive leadership experience in Field Medical/MSL roles.

• Proven track record in leading leaders and geographically distributed teams.

• Experience managing a national or substantial regional Field Medical organization.

• Experience in developing Field Medical strategy rather than just executing an existing one.

• Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing MSLs and Field Medical leaders.

• Strong experience in engaging with senior external experts and academic thought leaders.

• Solid understanding of Medical Affairs compliance requirements and appropriate scientific exchanges.

• Scientific fluency in allergy and/or immunology sufficient to establish credibility with academic allergists, immunologists, and pediatric specialists.

• Preferred: previous experience as VP, Head of Field Medical, National Field Medical Lead, or equivalent senior leadership role.

• Preferred: experience in building or significantly transforming an MSL organization.

• Preferred: pre-launch and launch experience in biotechnology or specialty pharmaceuticals.

• Preferred: experience supporting a first or early commercial launch within a biotechnology organization.

• Preferred: experience in allergy, immunology, pediatrics, dermatology, or another relevant specialty-care environment.

• Preferred: experience with products that necessitate significant physician and patient education and behavioral change.

• Preferred: experience working within a small-to-mid-sized biotechnology organization.

• Experience in creating field metrics, insight-generation systems, segmentation methodologies, and territory deployment models.

• Critical competencies include designing field medical strategy and operating models, scientific credibility in allergy/immunology, MSL talent development, insight generation and analytics, territory deployment and segmentation, compliance judgment, matrix leadership, executive communication, change management, budget and vendor management.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Competitive salary with performance-based bonuses.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements to promote work-life balance.

• Generous paid time off and holiday policies.

• Retirement savings plan with company matching contributions.