Associate Director, Medical Affairs (Rare Disease Division, West Coast)

At Biocodex, we believe we can be global without being impersonal, demanding without being rigid, and innovative without losing sight of care. As a human-sized pharmaceutical company, we operate with high standards, a strong team mindset, and a clear ambition: to create meaningful, lasting impact. Here, you can own your role, grow your expertise, and be fully yourself. We’re not looking for cookie-cutter profiles. We’re looking for strong expertise, fresh thinking, and people who want to build something that matters. 

Why This Role Matters:
The Associate Director, Medical Affairs will serve as a liaison to the medical/scientific community and will be responsible for establishing, developing, and maintaining relationships with prominent experts in pediatric neurology and in epilepsy within the geographic area of coverage. This position reports to the Director, Medical Affairs.

Associate Director, Medical Affairs

This position is REMOTE

West Coast Territory includes California, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska.

Candidates must reside within the territory with preference given to those residing in California near a major airport.

What You Will Do:

In this Role, You Will

• Build, maintain, and manage professional relationships with Key External Experts (KEEs) to organize networks at state levels within their designated region

• Ensure the appropriate dissemination of clinical and scientific information regarding marketed and pipeline compounds in a timely, ethical and health care provider (HCP)-focused manner

• Implement clinical and educational strategies in collaboration with other company colleagues for designated HCPs/KEEs. This includes organizing medical and scientific training sessions, conferences and symposiums in medical centers and during scientific congresses in the US

• Contribute to an efficient organization of medical communication activities for the marketed drug

• Execute and support department projects as directed by the Medical Officer.

• Report pharmacovigilance (PV), product quality (PQ), or medical information (MI) requests within 24 hours, per the Standard Operating Procedures for PV, PQ, and MI reporting

• Ensure competitive and scientific intelligence is communicated to medical and leadership team

• Input of all KEE/HCP interactions in company’s software platform(s) in a timely manner. The minimum requirement is weekly input

• Work to pair our KEE/HCP educational and research questions with the latest emerging data in response to specific healthcare professional inquiries

• Providing clinical and value-based input into Biocodex communications and materials, as directed by Medical Officer

• Medical Affairs Insights Lead with report generation

• Specialty Pharmacy data generation and Medical Affairs liaison

• Standard HCP (Health Care Provider) Response Letters: organization and updates

• Recurring updates to Medical Affairs deck updates

• Medical Affairs lead on Inpatient ordering program

• Medical Affairs lead reviewer for PRC (promotional review committee) and MRC (medical review committee)

• Expanded geography and key HCP responsibilities

What You Bring:

• A reliable team-player with strong organizational, project management, detail oriented, and communication skills

• Proactive work style

• Ability to be resilient, flex, and adapt to internal and external change

• Work collaboratively across the organizations

• Autonomous and ability to work in fast-changing and multi-tasking environment

• Ability to manage and communicate in a scientific and medical environment

• Strong management and leadership capabilities

• Excellent writing skills

• A valid unrestricted driver’s license

• The US Field-Based position is associated with a minimum of 60% time in the field while- customer facing.

What You Bring:

• Advanced scientific degree preferred (MD, PhD, PharmD), and will consider DNP, or clinically equivalent if appropriate experience (e.g., APRN, PA , RPh).

• Solid experience of 5 years in the pharmaceutical industry (preferred) as a field-based medical position (MSL or similar) to provide strategic and scientific/medical direction to national/regional business unit functions.

• Preferred experience in rare disease; and/or neurology or pediatrics.

• Knowledge of FDA Regulations and Medical Affairs SOPs and Guidelines

• Ability to respond appropriately to needs of key stakeholders and manage expectations; excellent project management skills and follow through Excellen