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Sumitomo Pharma

Director, Field Medical and Scientific Affairs - East and West

Sumitomo Pharma, Baton Rouge, LA, United States

Sumitomo Pharma Director, Field Medical and Scientific Affairs - East and West Baton Rouge, Louisiana Apply Now

Sumitomo Pharma Co., Ltd. is a global pharmaceutical company based in Japan with key operations in the U.S. (Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.), Canada (Sumitomo Pharma Canada, Inc.) and Europe (Sumitomo Pharma Switzerland GmbH) focused on addressing patient needs in oncology, urology, women's health, rare diseases, psychiatry & neurology, and cell & gene therapies. For more information on SMPA, visit our website here or follow us on LinkedIn.

Job Overview

Director, Field Medical and Scientific Affairs will be responsible for integrating scientific expertise and knowledge with brand strategies to ensure successful implementation of the Company's commercial and emerging product portfolio. This position leads, directs, coordinates, and supports the activities of the Field Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) within the specified region to achieve clinical, strategic and business objectives.

Job Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Accountable for the field-based medical strategy and is responsible for the training, deployment, direction, and execution of the Field MSL organization's goals and objectives.
  2. Lead, manage and mentor the Field MSLs to ensure team effectiveness while creating and maintaining a culture of trust, collaboration, innovation, and empowering the teams to drive for results and celebrate achievements.
  3. Monitors the Field Team’s appropriate dissemination of clinical and scientific information regarding the Company's pipeline and marketed products.
  4. Oversees the specific Key Opinion Leaders engagement opportunities in the therapeutic areas of interest.
  5. Lead the development of a customer-centric strategic regional engagement plan and execution of tactical activities to support Medical Affair’s goals.
  6. Ensures appropriate documentation of HCP interactions in the CRM and responses to unsolicited requests.
  7. Collects, summarizes, and disseminates key insights obtained from the RDs to the Medical Affairs and other internal stakeholders.
  8. Mentors, coaches, and evaluates the performance of MSLs to maximize the engagement and value of the field-based MSL team.
  9. Responsible for supervising territory plan development regionally.
  10. Provide clinical resources for programs supporting commercial training, marketing efforts and professional services.
  11. Maintains business and clinical knowledge of designated therapeutic area.
  12. Ensures that Field team members maintain adequate communications and interaction across cross functional counterparts.
  13. Manage team adherence to regulatory and compliance guidelines.
  14. Partner with cross-functional team members to bring the medical perspective to commercial strategies and tactics.
  15. Provide consistent, timely and accurate performance feedback based on observations of customer interactions.
  16. Actively support the regional field teams and their efforts.
  17. Other duties as assigned.

Key Core Competencies

  1. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  2. Ability to effectively communicate, collaborate and deliver an excellent work product.
  3. Develop and maintain significant contacts with employees across SMPA.
  4. Must have excellent external facing-service orientation.
  5. Problem solver with excellent computer skills.
  6. Ability to multi-task and shift priorities quickly.
  7. Proven experience handling confidential and sensitive information.

Education and Experience

  1. Advanced degree in medical science (MD, PharmD/RPh, or PhD) strongly preferred.
  2. Minimum 10 years of relevant industry experience.
  3. Minimum 5 years of people leadership experience.
  4. Knowledge and understanding of oncology clinical and therapeutic issues.
  5. Patient care clinical experience in oncology and/or hematology preferred.
  6. Solid understanding of drug and life-cycle development of a product.
  7. Ability to make decisions in a timely manner.
  8. Willingness to travel 50% or greater.

The base salary range for this role is $191,800 to $239,800. This includes opportunities for merit-based salary increases and additional benefits. Sumitomo Pharma America (SMPA) is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Affirmative Action employer.

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