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The Opportunity

The Regional Medical Science Liaison Director (RMD) is responsible for delivering a valued medical-scientific customer experience by leading and inspiring a large therapeutic area (TA) Neurodegenerative Diseases Pipeline MSL team to enhance patient outcomes through effective engagement and safe product use.

This role would oversee the Neurodegenerative Diseases Pipeline TA nationally.

Key Responsibilities

• Leverage a cross-portfolio perspective to partner with cross functional stakeholders, ensure alignment of access and care delivery strategies within the TA, and conduct needs analysis to strategically allocate field medical personnel.

• Maintain the highest levels of expertise in the assigned TA, build relationships with external scientific, medical, and managed care communities, and understand medical access barriers to advance inclusive research.

• Coach, develop, and mentor Neurodegenerative Diseases Pipeline therapeutic area MSL team to enhance their scientific customer experience, while guiding them to foster a broader enterprise-wide perspective and strategic engagement.

• Collaborate with Medical Partners and FMT colleagues to align long-term vision, TA-specific listening priorities, and tactical medical plans with local customer needs, and work closely with Field Medical colleagues to ensure successful implementation of strategies.

• Partner with the Field Medical team to ensure TA strategies align with access and care delivery needs, co-create national strategic plans for assigned molecules, and build relationships with key customers to drive innovative engagement.

• Collaborate with CMG partners to identify and prioritize initiatives addressing critical customer and market needs, making data-driven decisions to reallocate resources and focus on impactful activities.

• Lead the Neurodegenerative Diseases Pipeline MSL team to operate at full potential by setting performance expectations, sharing best practices, and fostering a culture of inclusivity and trust, emphasizing psychological safety and work-life balance.

• Utilize analytics and digital tools to assess TA customer insights and engagement impact to inform medical strategies, and assist in developing analytics tools, digital capabilities, and engagement metrics to enhance the Field Medical team's impact.

Who you are

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Advanced Clinical/Science Degree required (e.g., PharmD, PhD, MSN, MPH, MD, DO, PA, ANP); BSN with extensive clinical experience may be considered

• 7+ years of related work experience (clinical, managed care, or industry experience) 

• 2+ years of experience directly and indirectly leading teams

• Outstanding healthcare landscape knowledge, therapeutic area expertise and business acumen required; knows the industry, Genentech's business model and value proposition, product and safety profiles, key competitors and other marketplace factors/dynamics

• Strong communication and effective collaboration skills to work across a matrixed organization (e.g., ecosystem teams, Squad, Medical Network, PEAS partners, Field partners, Global partners, etc.) with consistent track record of influencing senior leadership without direct authority

• Strong financial acumen: capable of driving and managing larger-scale budget responsibilities

Preferred Experience

• Prior experience as a field medical science liaison, with evidence of strong customer engagement skills

• Relevant experience in pipeline development within Field Medical

• In-depth knowledge of Phase IV/post-marketing drug development

Location and Travel Requirements

• Role is field-based.

• Business travel, by air or car, is required for regular external business meetings with customers and intermittent internal company meetings (up to 70% of time)

• This position requires significant use of a company-provided car to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the role. As a result, Genentech, Inc. (Company) from time to time will check your motor vehicle r