Sr Dir, Global Medical Affairs -Hemophilia

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Primary Duties

The Sr. Director, Global Medical Affairs- Hemophilia is a critical member of the Medical Affairs and Patient Engagement leadership team and is responsible for defining the Global Medical Affairs vision, contributions to the integrated strategy (which also includes market access and marketing components) & tactics, and integrated evidence plan that support Spark’s late-stage product development and commercialization objectives through Roche. They will serve as a Spark subject matter expert in their respective therapeutic area for Spark/Roche stakeholders.  They will work with the therapeutic area team members to facilitate strategy and tactic development & implementation for relevant assets. They will lead efforts in key opinion leader (KOL) identification and development, analysis and interpretation of clinical results for medical education, presentations and publications, and health economics support.  They will provide strategic guidance for Phase IV and investigator-initiated research activities, assist in evaluation of new business development opportunities, and support clinical trial investigators and trial enrollment as needed.  They will work closely with Spark’s Patient Advocacy team pre-phase 3 and Roche Patient Partnership team phase 3+ to interface with advocacy groups as appropriate as well as other Roche/Genentech colleagues as required.  Incumbent will manage & develop the careers of Medical Affairs therapeutic area team members.

 

Responsibilities

Work with therapeutic area team members to facilitate strategy and tactic development & implementation for Spark pre-phase 3 assets

Leads and/or coordinates the global medical strategy contributions to the

Roche ‘integrated strategy’ (which also includes market access and marketing components) and/or life cycle strategy for a respective product(s)

Plan and execute medical advisory boards globally as needed to obtain insight for medical affairs activities, as well as gain KOL feedback on commercial, clinical and other activities

Define KOL targets and strategy for medical advocacy development; participate in KOL speaker training activities

Lead data analysis for Medical Affairs and develop integrated evidence plan for pipeline assets when needed, provide strategic guidance for and review of scientific publications and medical education initiatives, HEOR evidence generation, payer presentations

Deliver presentations of Spark data at medical congresses, represent Spark at relevant scientific, clinical and advocacy meetings

Define research areas of interest for potential investigator-initiated research projects

Provide medical oversight of the promotional review process, in conjunction with the Medical Information function

Provide subject matter expertise to all Spark/Roche stakeholders, e.g. Regulatory and Clinical Development activities as needed/appropriate

Provide subject matter expertise and review of materials for Corporate Communications and other corporate functions as needed/appropriate

Provide strategic leadership to US and global/affiliate therapeutic area medical team members

Manage performance of any direct and matrix report(s) and provide continuous and on-going performance feedback for team members, holding every team member accountable to achieve results while demonstrating the Spark Values

Ensure individual objectives align to corporate and functional objectives.

Develop team members’ careers by continually growing employees through challenging experiences, identify areas for development, actively coach, provide development and learning opportunities.

Foster Sparks Culture and lead by example.