Director/Senior Medical Affairs

Adverum is looking for a Director/Senior Medical Affairs, to join our team in our Redwood City office. This person will be working with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, and other cross functional teams to identify and continually improve external processes/strategic goals of our Medical Affairs programs.  The Director/Senior Medical Affairs will be responsible for the alignment of internal stakeholders (Therapeutic Heads/MSLs) on a holistic engagement strategy plus executing the development of relationships within the Medical Expert community.  

What you'll do:

• Lead for medical external strategy and execution to Centers of Excellence & Medical Experts
• Develop/Execute executive (CEO & Global Leadership Team) presentations and project updates to reflect progress against objectives
• Develop and execute field medical strategy for stakeholder relations and engagement, dissemination of education and medical/scientific information
• Provide support as needed to Market Access to ensure successful engagement and education of public and commercial managed market stakeholders
• Serve on cross-functional teams as Medical Affairs representative and scientific expert; participate in cross-functional teams with the goal of developing and implementing integrated medical and commercial strategies
• Establish and nurture strategic alliances and partnerships as needed with internal and external stakeholders to include advocacy groups and congress leaderships
• Manage educational tactics in partnership with external vendors and/or stakeholders (i.e. grants, CME and IIS)
• Collaborate with and provide scientific and clinical support and training for internal departments which may include Medical Science Liaisons, Clinical Operations, Research, Legal/Policy, and Investor Relations
• Support high-quality execution of corporate-wide initiatives and achievement of scientific/medical strategies

About you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Science or related area required.
• Advanced degree desirable (e.g., MPH, MBA, PhD, PharmD)
• 8-10+ years in pharma or biotech industry, including at least 5 years leading a Medical Affairs organization
• Expertise in the US market access environment (e.g., payers, health systems, pharmacies, health policy and reimbursement)
• Exhibit leadership skills within and outside of the organization (including people skills, mentoring, presentation skills, and professional interaction)
• Experience in establishing cross-function project management to drive innovation
• US market access launch experience preferred

Adverum is a clinical-stage gene therapy company targeting unmet medical needs in ophthalmology and rare diseases. Adverum develops gene therapy product candidates designed to provide durable efficacy by inducing sustained expression of a therapeutic protein. Adverum’s core capabilities include clinical development, novel vector discovery and in-house manufacturing expertise, specifically in scalable process development, assay development, and current Good Manufacturing Practices quality control.
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