Associate Director, Medical Affairs – Uro-Oncology

Job Description:

As a privately-owned, biopharmaceutical company, Ferring pioneers and delivers life-changing therapies that help people build families and live better lives. Our independence helps us cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit and long-term perspective that enables us to achieve growth and scale, while remaining agile and true to our ‘people first’ philosophy. Built on a 70-year plus commitment to science and research, Ferring is relentless in its pursuit of science that drives powerful discoveries and therapies to help people build families, stay healthy, and stand up to the world’s oldest enemy: disease.

As the Associate Director, Medical Affairs - Uro-Oncology, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our medical strategy and advancing our therapeutic pipeline. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally with research, commercial, and clinical teams, ensuring that our medical strategies align with our vision of improving patient care. Your expertise will drive scientific communication, medical education, and stakeholder engagement, establishing Ferring as a trusted partner in the Uro-Oncology community. 

Responsibilities: 

• Support the implementation of the US Uro-Oncology medical affairs strategy for all relevant assets. 

• Support and lead projects related to pre-approval and planned post-approval medical activities in close collaboration with cross-functional colleagues. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure medical communication plans are aligned with business units. 

• Support, plan and lead tactics of the medical scientific strategy, including publications, congress activities, advisory boards, medical education, opportunities, medical information, scientific training, and speaker development. 

• Support development and management of the budget for medical affairs tactics, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. This includes forecasting expenses for medical education initiatives, key opinion leader engagement, scientific meetings, and other tactical activities. 

• Represent Medical Affairs on cross-functional projects, meetings and committees to offer medical input, clinical expertise and data knowledge.  

• Draw on disease state expertise and product knowledge to represent Medical Affairs in external settings such as medical congresses or company-sponsored scientific advisory meeting/Advisory Boards.  

• Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders. Support internal and external collaborators with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information. Present information to healthcare professionals upon request to provide peer education. 

• Train internal stakeholders (i.e. MOVLs, MSLs, sales teams) on key scientific and medical topics in assigned therapeutic area. 

• Ensure internal and external presentations contain the most current and relevant medical information. 

• Continuously develop an understanding of the relevant associated disease clinical landscape. Maintain the scientific knowledge necessary to respond to questions encountered from key stakeholders. 

• Support Phase 3, prelaunch as well as post launch activities with stakeholders and actively work to develop appropriate Investigator Initiated Studies (IISs) strategy.  

• Ensure that all medical affairs activities are conducted in full compliance with relevant guidance, rules and regulations. 

• Support medical initiatives across other therapeutic areas relevant to licensing, translational, and clinical development activities, as requested. 

• Collaborate with colleagues to support product development, launch, and post market activities, including identification and support of clinical investigators and clinical study sites as well as life cycle management, as requested.  

• Complete all company and job-related training and expense reporting as assigned and within the required timelines. 

Qualifications: 

• Advanced Degree in Life Sciences: MD, PharmD or PhD required 

• Minimum 10 years’ medical affairs experience required, with 3 – 5 years of relevant experience or practice in Urology preferred 

• Demonstrated ability to write and review research protocols 

• Solid foundation in science with appropriate business acumen 

• Demonstrated ability to impart clinical/medical information clearly and effectively 

• Thorough understanding of the FDA, HIPAA, and other ethical and legal guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry to be able to function in a complaint and et