Executive Director, Management Advisor, Medical Affairs

Position Summary

The Executive Director, Management Advisor, Medical Affairs position will report into the Vice President, Medical Affairs Solution and will support the Medical Affairs solution while serving in a client-facing and project management capacity.

During client engagements, the Executive Director, Medical Affairs, will lead project-level work to evaluate clients’ current and future-state needs concerning resources (headcount and financial) and skills/capabilities related to operating practices within a dynamically changing healthcare landscape, directly supporting the Medical Affairs function.

The Executive Director, Medical Affairs role is a critical, client-facing position responsible for executing and delivering contracted services; expanding the breadth and depth of value delivered to clients; engaging TGaS’ Operations team in the delivery of the highest quality information and analyses; and broadening awareness of the company’s offerings across the bio-pharmaceutical industry.

Essential Functions

The Executive Director, Medical Affairs, will perform four key responsibilities:

1. Client Benchmark engagements and related projects
2. Act as an Advisory Services lead
3. Business Development / Opportunity Identification
4. Contribute to Innovation

Specifically, in the context of each of these four key responsibilities, this role will:

1. Lead Client Benchmark Engagements and Related Projects:

• Lead Medical Affairs benchmarks and all projects at client sites, from project initiation to final delivery. This includes conducting in-depth interviews with functional leaders, executives, and stakeholders to ascertain available resources and existing capabilities
• Capture/coordinate receipt of client-provided quantitative and qualitative information for input into TGaS’ database for analysis. Data commonly includes headcount, budgets, skills, operating practices, processes, supportive infrastructure, etc.
• Author benchmark engagement reports summarizing the client’s resources and capabilities relative to peer set companies and TGaS’ continuums of best practices, including recommendations to improve operational effectiveness/efficiencies to coincide with the client organizations’ current or evolving/future needs
• Represent the Medical Affairs solution while working collaboratively and cross-functionally with other TGaS teams in the course of client engagements spanning multiple TGaS solutions
• Participate in or (where appropriate) lead value-added client engagements (e.g., strategy and planning sessions or workshops) which help to drive the value of TGaS benchmark results into clients’ operating practices, processes, or business results

2. Lead Advisory Services Engagements with Clients:

• Respond accurately and in a timely manner to client inquiries by providing subject-matter expertise and valued guidance that informs client decision-making.
• Provide ‘urgent, on-call support’.
• Envision and proactively execute an annual plan for producing value-added content for client consumption - achieved through TGaS Advisors’ network and survey process
• Actively participate in the Medical Affairs solution semi-annual Client Summits. Envision and create content to be showcased at the Client Summits
• Identify and implement enhancements to the advisory services process. Conduct routine ‘best practice deep dives’ to be published and distributed to the network of TGaS advisory services clients

3. Business Development / Opportunity Identification:

• Through ongoing client interactions, identify unmet client needs that are addressable through TGaS Advisors Medical Affairs (or other solution) offerings