Director Scientific Communication & Medical Information Int'l Partnership

About Acadia Pharmaceuticals

Acadia is advancing breakthroughs in neuroscience to elevate life. Since our founding, we have been working at the forefront of healthcare to bring vital solutions to people who need them most. We developed and commercialized the first and only FDA-approved drug to treat hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson’s disease psychosis, and the first and only approved drug in the United States and Canada for the treatment of Rett syndrome. Our clinical-stage development efforts are focused on Prader-Willi syndrome, Alzheimer’s disease psychosis, and multiple other programs targeting neuro-psychiatric and neuro-rare diseases. For more information, visit Acadia.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

 

Please note that this position will be based in Princeton, NJ, or San Diego, CA. Acadia's hybrid model requires this role to work in our office on average three days per week. 

Position Summary

The Director will play a critical role as Medical Affairs primary point of contact for international partnerships (Named Patient Sales [NPS] program) in assigned geographies outside of North America and Europe for Acadia products, particularly rare diseases franchise. This individual will be managing Medical Affairs initiatives of the international NPS program; ensuring appropriate medical content are shared for scientific exchange as well as for responding to escalated Medical Information inquiries.  This multi-skilled role will be a key cross-functional interface between Acadia headquarters and partner markets.  The successful candidate will be both strategic and operational and participate in regional/key market activities.

Primary Responsibilities

• Manages Medical Affairs initiatives with partners of the international NPS program; ensuring Medical strategies are shared and discussed for alignment
• Works across matrix teams and regions to ensure relevant insights are considered for overall strategy development
• Coordinates with Learning & Development on training needs (onboarding as well as continued training as new data becomes available)
• Maintains and coordinates transfer of appropriate Medical Content for scientific exchange and for responding to Med Info inquiries for international partnerships
• Manages escalated Med Info inquiries from partner markets and ensures accurate and timely responses
• Coordinates with Medical Affairs colleagues and internal stakeholders in the development, review and approval of Medical Content for partner markets, as needed
• Maintains understanding of product knowledge and labeling, associated disease states, relevant literature, treatment guidelines, competitor information, and marketing strategies and tactics for assigned therapeutic area(s)
• Acts as a subject matter expert to the partners to provide timely up-to-date scientific and clinical information necessary to make impactful business decisions
• Contributes to the development, review and implementation of long and short-term strategies to optimize assigned partner markets for future and current products
• Develops and maintains a strong working relationship with the partners, ensuring alignment with program objectives, timelines, and quality standards aligned to global and medical affairs strategy
• Collaborates with local, regional and global cross-functional teams to address program requirements and challenges
• Collaborates learnings and best practices with leadership, headquarters and with partners
• Other responsibilities as assigned

Education/Experience/Skills

• Requires a PharmD, PhD, or MD degree in a scientific discipline. Targeting 7 years of Medical Affairs experience in pharmaceutical/biotech experience required, with 5 years in Medical Affairs/Scientific Communications/Medical Information.  An equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.
• International experience within Medical Affairs/Sci Com/Med Info is preferred.
• Experience with rare disease/neurology is preferred.
• Ability to work across multiple functions, geographies and business cultures.
• Experience in literature searches, literature evaluation, and drug information concepts.
• Experience in developing medical content for scientific exchange and in response to Medical Information requests.
• Experience in MLR and MRC.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Understanding of the legal and regulatory environment of pharmaceutical industry desired.
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