Director, Medical Affairs – Emerging Therapies
Job Details
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience in medical affairs, clinical development, or a closely related leadership function, ideally involving emerging therapies and innovative medical technologies.
- Strong understanding of early-stage and translational clinical development, evidence generation, and clinical trial planning.
- Experience developing medical strategies and translating scientific findings into clinical development plans and portfolio priorities.
- Ability to collaborate across Research and Development, Clinical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Market Access, and Commercial teams.
- Experience building relationships with key opinion leaders, clinical investigators, scientific experts, academic partners, and advisory boards.
- Knowledge of evidence dissemination, publication planning, scientific congresses, and medical communications.
- Understanding of regulatory submissions, product labeling, safety communications, and risk management.
- Familiarity with market access, reimbursement strategy, go-to-market planning, and launch readiness.
- Ability to assess competitive landscapes and therapeutic opportunities and contribute to portfolio prioritization and lifecycle decisions.
- Strong leadership and people-development skills, including mentoring and performance management.
- Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills, and judgment.
- Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, including communicating complex medical and scientific concepts.
- Ability to manage multiple programs, coordinate resources, and deliver results in complex cross-functional environments.
Responsibilities
- Develop and lead medical strategies for emerging therapies using the 220 kHz focused ultrasound platform.
- Collaborate with Research and Development and Strategic Marketing to shape product portfolios and medical development pathways.
- Monitor scientific evidence, therapeutic trends, and competitive landscapes to inform strategic planning.
- Partner with Clinical Affairs on trial design, readiness, execution, investigator-initiated research, and investigator selection.
- Align trial timelines and endpoints with commercial plans while supporting enrollment, patient journey considerations, budgets, and data generation.
- Build relationships with key opinion leaders, investigators, academic partners, and scientific experts.
- Oversee publication strategies, evidence dissemination, scientific presentations, and congress participation.
- Collaborate with Market Access and commercial teams on commercialization readiness and reimbursement strategies.
- Provide medical input for regulatory submissions and product labeling, and support safety communications and risk management.
- Mentor the medical and clinical team and contribute to launch planning, portfolio prioritization, and product lifecycle decisions.