Global Medical Affairs and Strategic Alliances Director

Job Description

Role Summary

• The Global Medical Affairs and Strategic Alliances Director position resides in the Value & Implementation (V&I) organization, which includes Global Medical and Scientific Affairs as well as Outcomes Research.

• This position is accountable for supporting Medical Affairs (MA) activities for external strategic alliances and partnerships. The Global Medical Affairs and Strategic Alliances Director coordinates and supervises all alliance MA activities and collaborates with internal and external partners as they relate to these global activities. The Director supports the alignment of our scientific and medical strategies across the portfolio of relevant company products.  The Director works on the continuous development and improvement of cross-functional alignment, systems and processes impacting Medical Affairs to ensure that work is uniform, complete, and consistent with relevant collaboration agreement.  The Global Medical Affairs and Strategic Alliances Director holds responsibility (along with the Asset Lead) for the alignment between asset strategy and execution, above-asset and optimization initiatives to ensure succinct execution. 

• The Global Medical Affairs and Strategic Alliances Director works closely with the Global and/or Regional Medical Affairs Leads, Commercial Teams, including Commercial Alliance Management, Global Medical and Value Capabilities, and Clinical Development to internally coordinate alliance MA activities, inform all major stakeholders of unmet needs, and facilitate approaches to address them.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

Alliance Component

• Develops and maintains broad and deep external partner relationships and is knowledgeable about the partner’s scientific perspective

• Understands the process by which the partner executes MA activities

• Provides feedback to the partners if needed and builds multi-level relationships, including those at the executive level

• Facilitates high-quality interactions with partners through engagements about MA activities on an ongoing basis

• Coordinates with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment within Our Company

• Maintains close alignment with internal alliance finance leads to ensure accurate capture and reporting of alliance full-time equivalent (FTE) and MA activities spend

• Acts as the key internal and external MA point of contact for strategic alliances and partnerships to provide guidance and give direction to enable the execution of the MA plans

• Establishes and fosters strong working relationships with MA alliance partner.

• Liaises with internal and external partners to coordinate each MA function, such as Medical Information, Investigator Initiated Studies, Publications, Field Medical Activities, Scientific Leader Engagements, Training to ensure a synergistic approach to these activities

• Coordinates with the teams to ensure appropriate sharing of medical input and insights across the alliances as well as multiple internal functions across all geographies

• Communicates and collaborates with GMA Oncology Regional Leaders in the affiliates to ensure cross-fertilization of relevant MA information

• Assesses risks and identifies issues, conflicts, or gaps across alliances and regions

• Manages Global or Regional MA meetings with the partners, including the creation of collaborative meeting agendas and minutes and follow-up on action items

• Collaborates closely with Legal, Compliance, and Commercial Alliance Management as needed for clarification and guidance as it pertains to the overall alliance and/or alliance contract

• Supports short-/long-range profit and loss (P&L) forecasting by monitoring headcount and financial budget for MA activities for each specific alliance

• Provides updates and seeks endorsement, as requested, to senior leadership regarding all MA activities as related to specific alliances

Alliance Component

• Provides updates and seeks endorsement, as requested, to senior leadership regarding all MA activities as related to specific alliances

• Aligns organizational-driven priorities from an alliance perspective, including identifying and addressing critical organization needs to ensure the optimization of strategy as well as execution of critical tactics

• Ensure all bi-directional communications between Medical Affairs Teams are aligned, streamlined, and simplified and coordinated in adherence to all company policies and procedures

• Hold responsibility for the continuous development and improvement of cross-functional alignment between various ther