Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, Canada, and Sweden. For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio. 

Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease. At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success. Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands.  We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team. 

Summary of Role:

The Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs will lead the Medical Affairs function including Medical Science Liaisons, Clinical Science Liaisons, Medical Affairs Operations, Global Medical Information, Clinical Science Communications, and Investigator Sponsored Trials for all therapeutic indications for all marketed products, products in development (responsibility shared with Clinical R&D for products in development) and provide expertise in business development as required.

As part of the responsibilities, this person will also strongly contribute to all life cycle management activities of commercialized products, as well as to closely interact with the R&D team and support the Clinical R&D teams in registrational and non-registrational sponsored trials. This individual will lead a team of 30+. The SVP will set the direction of the Medical Affairs organization to ensure the right balance of in-house, partnered and outsourced expertise to meet Lantheus’ current and future requirements. The SVP of Medical Affairs will work with the R&D Department to support the publication and promulgation of clinical and pre-clinical data as well as other important information. This position will have a strong outward facing presence and will support Investor Relations initiatives by representing the company in different capacities as required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create and voice an integrated medical vision for how Medical Affairs can contribute most meaningfully to address unmet medical needs. Create and operationalize a strategy that addresses both scientific and operational issues in partnership with R&D and Commercial leadership.
• Lead and manage the Company’s Medical Affairs function, allocating and directing internal resources and effectively utilizing outsourcing to achieve project and business goals in a timely manner.
• As part of the Research and Development leadership team, collaborate with the pharmaceutical research, clinical development, isotope strategy and regulatory departments to support the planning, execution, and management of clinical trials activities.
• Maintain positive professional relationships with the medical community, to identify current and future business opportunities and emerging medical and health care practices.
• Maintain a working knowledge of local/regional health planning issues and trends. Lead a Medical Affairs organization, by developing strategy and hiring key contributors.
• Work closely with R&D organizations to ensure that appropriate publication and Investigator Sponsored Trials policies are in place.
• Work closely with the Regulatory and Commercial organizations to ensure timely, accurate and compliant preparation and review of promotional and educational material.
• With her/his team, provide medical and scientific training to the rest of the organization, and as well as, guidance to Commercial/Marketing Organizations on promotional material and campaigns.
• Help define and lead strategy as a senior member of the research and development organization and be a member of the Research and Development leadership team.
• Support the medical governance of the Company

 

Basic Qualifications:

• Advanced life science degree, including M.D., Ph.D., and/or Pharm.D.
• Minimum of 15 years of medical affairs or clinical research experience within the pharmaceutical industry, CRO health-related consulting company, or biomedical/clinical experience within academia (or a combination of aforementioned).
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience in leading a Medical Affairs function; prior experience with new product launch strongly preferred.
• Previous Medical Affairs expertise within solid tumor oncology (prostate, neuroendocrine, breast, melanoma) strongly prefer