Be Part Of A High-Performing Team:
Join a global biopharmaceutical organization dedicated to developing and delivering meaningful therapies for patients living with serious and rare diseases. The Medical Affairs team operates in a highly collaborative, science-driven environment where strategic medical leadership, cross-functional partnership, and innovative thinking are essential. This position will work across regions and functions to build a cohesive respiratory medical strategy, strengthen external scientific relationships, and support critical launch-planning initiatives.
What’s In Store For You:
- Engagement: W2 only (no C2C/1099)
- Full-time consulting opportunity supporting a global Medical Affairs organization.
- Opportunity to shape respiratory medical strategy across multiple geographic regions.
- High-visibility partnership with Medical Strategy, Clinical Development, HEOR, Field Medical, Medical Information, Commercial, Finance, and regional teams.
- Exposure to indication strategy, launch planning, evidence generation, scientific communications, and thought leader engagement.
- Up to 25% domestic and international travel.
How You Will Make An Impact:
- Establish and evolve the global Medical Affairs strategy for a respiratory indication, ensuring alignment with broader franchise and organizational priorities.
- Translate medical strategy into actionable medical plans with clearly defined milestones supporting launch readiness.
- Represent Medical Affairs within cross-functional teams spanning Clinical Development, Operations, HEOR, Commercial, Finance, and regional organizations.
- Develop an integrated evidence-generation strategy by identifying data gaps and helping shape future data-generation plans.
- Build and maintain relationships with external experts and thought leaders to gather scientific insights and support indication planning.
- Create a comprehensive thought leader engagement strategy and corresponding execution plan.
- Review scientific publications and contribute to medical backgrounders, frequently asked questions, standard response documents, and internal training materials.
- Partner with regional and functional stakeholders to develop annual medical activity plans and manage associated budgets.
- Identify innovative Medical Affairs approaches and incorporate relevant best practices into strategies, plans, and operational processes.
- Promote consistent planning standards, operational excellence, and cross-regional coordination across the respiratory franchise.
- Ensure all Medical Affairs activities comply with applicable policies, standards, and regulatory expectations.
Do You Have the Expertise to Lead Global Respiratory Medical Affairs Strategy?
- Medical degree required.
- At least six years of Medical Affairs experience, with substantial experience operating at a strategic or leadership level.
- Direct pulmonology or respiratory therapeutic-area experience is essential.
- Strong understanding of Medical Affairs strategy, planning, evidence generation, scientific communications, and cross-functional execution.
- Previous experience supporting product launch planning is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to develop and implement innovative Medical Affairs approaches.
- Experience serving as the Medical Affairs representative within multidisciplinary or cross-functional teams.
- Proven ability to lead through influence in a complex matrix organization.
- Previous Medical Affairs leadership experience, including responsibility for strategy, planning, or major programs.
- Global experience or experience supporting multiple regions, including the United States, is preferred.
- Experience developing data-generation strategies, conducting evidence-gap assessments, and aligning evidence plans across stakeholders.
- Familiarity with publication review, medical content development, internal scientific training, and thought leader engagement.
- Experience supporting annual planning and managing Medical Affairs budgets.
- Strong strategic thinking with the ability to connect scientific, operational, regional, and commercial considerations.
- Demonstrated success driving change, improving processes, and establishing planning standards.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Highly collaborative, detail-oriented, independent, and comfortable solving complex problems.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 25%.