Director, Field Medical Training and Scientific Excellence

Crinetics is a pharmaceutical company based in San Diego, California, developing much-needed therapies for people with endocrine diseases and endocrine-related tumors. We were founded by a dedicated team of scientists with the simple belief that better therapies developed from rigorous innovation can lead to better lives. Our work continues to make a real difference in the lives of patients. We have a prolific discovery engine and a robust preclinical and clinical development pipeline. We are driven by science with a patient-centric and team-oriented culture. Crinetics is known for its inclusive workplace culture. We are also a dog-friendly workplace. This is an exciting time to join Crinetics as we shape our organization into the world’s premier fully-integrated endocrine company from discovery to patients. Join our team as we transform the lives of others.

Position Summary:

The Director, Field Medical Training and Scientific Excellence will work in close collaboration with the relevant stakeholders from across Medical Affairs to develop and execute comprehensive learning and training resources on disease state, product, and treatment landscape. For assigned/prioritized therapeutic area(s), indication(s), and asset(s), the Director will incorporate adult learning principles and leverage evidence-based cognitive learning principles to develop robust learning plans and curricula for Pipeline, and commercialized products. The Director will also be responsible for creating and developing resources for the Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) to be used in the field with customers.

The Director is expected to lead planning, development, and delivery of scientific learning for internal stakeholders across Medical Affairs. Building and establishing strong partnerships with key internal and external stakeholders to advance internal medical and scientific knowledge will be key to the role. They will be responsible for the development of learning content and experiences across the product(s) lifecycle phases. Deliverables will include self-paced learning modules, live and virtual training engagement, and tools to enhance scientific knowledge retention. An ability to work collaboratively within a matrix organization is critically important to successfully develop and deploy the valued and impactful scientific learning in a consistent and efficient way that maximizes synergies and minimizes duplication across medical affairs.

The Director of Medical Training and Scientific Excellence will contribute to the overall vison, strategy, and approach to medical and scientific learning across the indications and assets that fall under their Therapeutic Area (TA). The Director will be expected to collaborate with their peers to drive alignment and consistency for medical and scientific learning outputs.

The Director of Field Medical Training and Scientific Excellence will be expected to develop strong and effective partnerships with colleagues from within the broader Medical affairs team. In addition, it will be imperative that close working relationships are forged with relevant colleagues from international and US commercial learning teams, as appropriate. The Director will drive advancement of medical and scientific learning, from onboarding through ongoing learning, for the purpose of achieving and maintaining expert level scientific knowledge reflective of the associated medical strategy for their assigned area(s) of therapeutic and asset focus.

Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:

These may include but are not limited to:

• Lead overarching evolution, strategy, and execution of medical and scientific learning resources and learner experiences for a specific TA
• Collaborate with identified individual(s) within designated therapeutic team to gain clarity on TA learning needs and develop Integrated Learning Plans aligned to these needs
• Develop medical affairs material to be used by Field MSLs including training decks, slide presentations, and other relevant material essential for medical affair use with customers or internal training.
• Create and develop a training platform to be used by medical affairs which stores and tracks on boarding and continuous training material.
• Utilize adult learning principles during planning, stakeholder alignment, and build-out of medical and scientific learning content for disease state, product, and treatment landscape
• Partner with relevant colleagues involved in medical and scientific learning from across medical, clinical development and endocrinology to ensure relevance of learning deliverables and consistency of offerings across the various Medical Affairs groups
• Ensure timely and efficient development and delivery of medical and scientific learning content/training related to disease state, product