Executive Director, US Medical Affairs, Field Medical Ophthalmology

Job Description

The Executive Director (ED) for Field Medical Affairs in the US understands our Company’s corporate and products/portfolio strategies and work cross-functionally with the Global Medical and Scientific Affairs Therapeutic Area teams to align on Global medical strategies relevant to their region as defined by the Global Value & Implementation (V&I) Planning and global V&I Plan. The ability to work effectively and successfully in a highly matrixed environment is critical.

The Executive Director provides strategic and tactical direction to the field Regional Medical Scientific Director (RMSD) is accountable for ensuring field teams execute on Integrated Field Medical Plans (FMPs) and achieve field metrics for scientific exchange and research support.

Primary Responsibilities:

Leadership and Management

• Serves as a senior leader in the Country Medical Affairs field organization, broadly influencing medical activities and setting the direction for RMSDs across the Therapeutic Area (TA) programs

• Assesses and determines core vision, strategy, and objectives for field TA teams that are aligned with Global Medical and Scientific Affairs (GMSA) medical strategies

• Co-chairs Regional Medical Affairs Team (USMAT) meeting

• Optimizes and ensures therapeutic support of Health Systems accounts by fostering collaboration with the Medical Affairs Health Systems teams and Outcomes Research as needed across programs

• Collaborates with external alliance partners as per approved ways of working

• Provides ongoing assessment of Team Leader (TL) competencies, supports implementation of individualized employee development priorities, completes performance evaluations based on observations, deliverables, and feedback from peers and customers

• Collaborates with other EDs to ensure best-practice sharing among the different field teams

• Provides guidance to the TL to ensure compliant field medical activities that support the safe, effective, and knowledgeable use of Company products

• Supervises TL management of field medical teams to meet the following objectives:

  • Execute on regional- and territory-specific scientific exchange and research support FMPs

  • Engage in scientific exchange with scientific leaders and investigators to support Our Company scientific platforms and research programs

  • Support scientific and research exchange activities and meetings at scientific congresses

  • Maintain relationships with scientific leaders and investigators essential to insight collection and participation in Our Company’s clinical development program

  • Identify new and emerging science in areas important to our Company

  • Identify potential study sites and increase participation in studies of Our Company compounds by increasing investigator awareness of research opportunities supported by Our Company

  • Support Our Company’s Investigator-Initiated Study Program (IIS) through field-based support of Areas of Interest (AOI) dissemination, Letter of Intent submission, data generation, and study publication

  • Support company-sponsored trial programs through site recommendations, site initiation visit support, scientific support, and data dissemination

• Provides scientific consultation to Our Company’s Research Laboratories to support scientifically informed and clinically educated decision making

• Assures cooperation and alignment with Global initiatives

Strategic Planning and Project Management

• Partners with the TA on monthly USMAT meetings

• Serves as a senior leader across medical governance teams (e.g., USMAT) to provide comprehensive field and external insights into TA Franchise Plans

• Ensures that external insights are evaluated and integrated into scientific platform development to enhance V&I strategies and FMP

• Incorporates Scientific Platform, including insights and voice of the investigator, into the execution of Field Medical strategies and tactics

• Optimizes TA management team alignment, integration, and tactical implementation via coordination with the field medical leadership team, Headquarters (HQ) Medical Affairs teams, Global Clinical Development, and IIS teams

• Assists Country Medical Affairs senior leadership with field medical strategic planning and resource management

• Actively interfaces with Country Medical Affairs and TA Franchise leadership (e.g., RDMA, EDMA, Global Medical Affairs Capabilities) to ensure strategic alignment, proper resourcing, and flawless execution of FMPs by field teams

• Ensures developmen