Associate Director, Field Medical and Scientific Affairs - East and West

Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. is a global pharmaceutical company based in Japan with key operations in the U.S. (Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.), Canada (Sumitomo Pharma Canada, Inc.) and Europe (Sumitomo Pharma Switzerland GmbH) focused on addressing patient needs in oncology, urology, women's health, rare diseases, psychiatry & neurology, and cell & gene therapies. With several marketed products in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, a diverse pipeline of early- to late-stage assets, and in-house advanced technology capabilities, we aim to accelerate discovery, research, and development to bring novel therapies to patients sooner. For more information on SMPA, visit our website https://www.us.sumitomo-pharma.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Job Overview

Associate Director, Field Medical and Scientific Affairs will be responsible for integrating scientific expertise and knowledge with brand strategies to ensure successful implementation of the Company's commercial and emerging product portfolio. This position leads, directs, coordinates, and supports the activities of the Field Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) within the specified region to achieve clinical, strategic  and business objectives. This position works cross-functionally to identify, develop, and implement field MSL hiring, training, strategies, and tactics. The incumbent will help drive the key opinion leader strategy, ensuring the company is effectively positioned for developing advocates. Additional duties include monitoring results on planned activities of scientific exchange and knowledge of the Company’s disease and product strategies to ensure successful communication, education and involvement of the emerging product portfolio, KOL outreach and relationship development, requests for medical information, as well as supporting evidence generation efforts through company- and investigator-led studies, as appropriate.  This role will also be responsible to support the teams internal roles and responsibilities as supportive of the commercial and development portfolio. 

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Field Leadership / Management Requirements:

• Accountable for the field-based medical strategy and is responsible for the training, deployment, direction, and execution of the Field MSL organization's goals and objectives.
• Lead, manage and mentor, the Field MSLs to ensure team effectiveness while creating and maintaining a culture of trust, collaboration, innovation, and empowering the teams to drive for results and celebrate achievements.
• Monitors the Field Team’s appropriate dissemination of clinical and scientific information regarding the Company's pipeline and marketed products in a timely and customer-focused manner to all appropriate stakeholders.
• Oversees the specific Key Opinion Leaders engagement opportunities in the therapeutic areas of interest, establishment and cultivation of scientific relationships in their centers.
• Lead the development of a customer-centric strategic regional engagement plan and execution of tactical activities to support Medical Affair’s goals and objectives.
• Ensures appropriate documentation of HCP interactions in the CRM and responses to unsolicited requests.
• Collects, summarizes, and disseminates key insights obtained from the RDs to the Medical Affairs and other internal stakeholders in a timely manner.
• Participate in the identification and implementation of systems supporting department needs and initiatives, as needed.
• Mentors, coaches, and evaluates the performance of MSLs to maximize the engagement and value of the field-based MSL team.
• Responsible for supervising territory plan development regionally and the clinical positioning of a designated product line in each geographic area.
• Provide clinical resources for programs supporting commercial training, marketing efforts and professional services.
• Maintains business and clinical knowledge of designated therapeutic area, including current treatment strategies, current and pending competitors, and new therapeutic developments.
• Ensures that Field team members maintain adequate communications and interaction across cross functional counterparts, when appropriate and according to compliance and regulatory guidelines