Assoc. Director, Field Medical Excellence & Operations

Assoc. Director, Field Medical Excellence & Operations

Remote – USA

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The Assoc. Director, Field Medical Excellence & Operations is a remote/field‑based scientific expert responsible for communicating with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, providing medical and scientific information on the appropriate utilization of therapy(s), and advancing therapeutic disease‑state knowledge. This role is a core member of the Medical Affairs Team, leveraging a scientific approach aligned with medical affairs objectives and therapeutic area medical plans.

• Partner with the Head of Medical Affairs to define field medical strategy, HCP engagement plans, and coverage approach to meet company‑defined goals within corporate and regulatory guidelines for products both marketed and in development.
• Develop and implement frameworks for field effectiveness, including KPIs, activity metrics, and qualitative impact measures.
• Support field medical launch readiness (territory design, targeting, resource planning).
• Coordinate a robust conference plan, coverage, and reporting, attending and actively reporting on global/national/regional conferences.
• Maintain clinical/technical expertise in specific therapeutic areas; review scientific journals, attend scientific and key technical meetings in territory and share learnings with key stakeholders.
• Evolve and manage core operational systems (CRM, insights platforms, dashboards).
• Establish scalable processes for field planning, interaction reporting, and compliance.
• Design and operationalize a field insights generation, reporting and dissemination model.
• Partner cross‑functionally (Clinical, Commercial, HEOR) to synthesize insights into actionable recommendations.
• Assist with developing reporting dashboards to track trends, engagement quality, and strategic impact.
• Partner with Medical Training to identify capability gaps and support ongoing development of the field medical team.
• Create tools and resources to improve field execution (e.g., engagement guides, scientific narratives).
• Foster a team culture of accountability and proactively develop skillsets.
• Ensure high‑quality presentations and interactions through quantitative and qualitative field medical data tracking.
• Develop relationships with healthcare professionals and provide credible, balanced scientific information about product development and therapy(s).
• Serve as an extended source of balanced medical information for HCPs, skilled in issues management and addressing unsolicited questions about safety and potential off‑label use based on available scientific data.

• PharmD, Ph.D., MD, or other advanced healthcare degrees or relevant experience.
• 5+ years of medical affairs or field medical excellence experience with a verifiable record of high performance.
• Prior experience in rare diseases and/or skeletal dysplasia.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills (including networking).
• Ability to participate in scientific dialogue with KOLs and researchers.
• Excellent teaching skills and ability to present and discuss scientific material clearly and concisely.
• Proven ability to create and sustain relationships with industry leaders.
• Skilled in clinical research and an understanding of the pharmaceutical product development and approval process.
• Demonstrated ability to organize, prioritize, and…