Vice President, Medical Affairs
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Location: Rockville - Remote - Rockville, United States
Date Posted: Sep 20, 2024
Requisition ID: AR1480
Job Type: Full-time
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Description
Our Mission: Changing the trajectory of autoimmune diseases.
Our Vision: Enabling patients to live their fullest life.
We are a dedicated team of experts committed to changing the trajectory of autoimmune diseases with unmet medical needs. We are relentless in our pursuit to provide transformative medical treatments. We are resilient. We care.
Along with driving adoption of our approved therapy, LUPKYNIS™, for appropriate people with lupus nephritis, we are pursuing a broader portfolio of innovative autoimmune disease therapies.
Our strategy leverages the skills and knowledge of our expert team and our deep experience in principled drug development and commercialization. Aurinia’s working environment enables every individual to thrive in a professional atmosphere guided by our Culture Values:
- Achieve together
- Collaborate
- Explore & build
- Act responsibly
Together, we drive to change the trajectory of autoimmune disease for patients in need.
Overview
Aurinia is currently seeking a Vice President, Medical Affairs, who will provide strategic leadership and operational guidance for all Medical Affairs activities to ensure that they are compliant and appropriately aligned to corporate strategies to maximize value of Aurinia’s commercialized products and pipeline assets. This leader will manage a remote and field-based Medical Affairs team consisting of Medical Directors, Training and Publishing teams and the leader for the Medical Science Liaison (MSL) team. This role will report directly to the organization’s Chief Medical Officer (CMO).
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities:
- This person will be responsible for the development of strategies and overall tactical execution of the dedicated clinical-stage pipeline launch indications, with a particular focus on disease states relevant to voclosporin and pipeline assets.
- Accountable for development, tracking and periodic reporting of medical affairs-related metrics and KPIs
- Other responsibilities include being an experienced people manager who has a passion for the autoimmune diseases
- Working and collaborating cross-functionally as well as developing and maintaining key relationships with external KOLs and decision-makers.
- Drive the development and execution of the cross-functional product and disease state strategy.
- Provide strategic direction, and operational oversight on evidence generation activities under the medical affairs function in close collaboration within a cross-functional team.
- Systematically capture and report internally medical insights and emerging trends related to relevant therapeutics area and be able to translate these insights into actionable activities for medical affairs.
- Ensure continuous development and training of the medical affairs team with regard to disease area expertise and job-specific proficiency.
- Plans and manages the medical affairs budget.
- Participates in the exchange with the medical community and maintains a network consisting of the most important and influential thought leaders.
- Contributes to the development of medical affairs POAs.
- Collaborates effectively and in a appropriated manner with colleagues in other functional areas to include Clinical Operations, Compliance, Commercial, Patient Service, Regulatory, Global Patient Safety functions.
- Provides local edical expertise input into global product development and business development activities as requested.
Qualification
- 10+ years of relevant experience with Advanced scientific degree (e.g. MD, PharmD, Ph.D.)
- Advanced clinical and/or scientific knowledge in nephrology or rheumatology preferred.
- Relevant pharmaceutical company experience within Medical Affairs
- Significant leadership experience is mandatory for this role
- Ability to embrace company patient-centric values, including the highest ethical and compliance standards.
- Strategic mindset with a focus on collaboration and excellence
- Excellent organizational skills including attention to detail and prioritization.
- Stays up to date with Medical Affairs management best practices in the industry and applies them to the team where appropriate.
- Represents Medical Affairs to external and internal stakeholders, including groups of experts, medical professional groups, societies, regulatory groups, and at national scientific meetings.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Works independently with minimal supervision
- Approximately 35% of travel
Additional Information
All candidate information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
All candidate information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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