Director, Field- Medical Effectiveness; Field

Position: Director, Field-Based Medical Effectiveness (Field)
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Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you’ve got big plans – so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people’s lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet.

That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us.  United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life.

Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US. The Director, Field-Based Medical Effectiveness translates Therapeutic Area (TA) Medical Affairs strategy into measurable Field Medical priorities and effective execution. In partnership with Field Medical Directors, Medical Directors, US and Global Medical Leadership, and key cross-functional stakeholders, the Director optimizes stakeholder engagement, field deployment, capability building, content, training, analytics, and performance management.  

This role bridges Field Medical strategy and execution by ensuring effective resource deployment, appropriate engagement of priority external stakeholders, and continuous improvement in the impact, quality, and compliance of Field Medical activities.

Main interfaces

Internal US and Global Medical Affairs;
Field Medical;
Medical Directors;
Medical Communications and Information;
Medical Education;
Medical Operations;
Clinical Development;
Medical Planning;
Compliance;
Legal;
Regulatory Affairs;
Commercial;
Marketing;
Managed Markets;
Information Technology;
Global Business Units; and other relevant functions.

External Key Thought Leaders (KTLs), Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), healthcare professionals, scientific and medical experts, strategic partners, vendors, consultants, and congress organizers.

Your Role:

Field Medical strategy and deployment

Develop TA Field Medical strategies, goals, objectives, and operating plans with Field Medical Directors, Medical Directors, and Global Field Medical.

Translate Medical Affairs strategy into clear execution priorities, resource requirements, activities, and measurable outcomes.

Guide KTL/HCP targeting, segmentation, geographic coverage, Centers of Excellence identification, and referral-network mapping.

Lead coverage and territory planning, including resource allocation to areas of greatest medical need.

Identify execution gaps and opportunities to optimize resources, territories, workload, and coverage.

Develop contingency coverage plans for vacancies, launches, organizational changes, and periods of increased medical need.

Assess launch readiness, including stakeholder coverage, capability readiness, content availability, training completion, and execution against milestones.

Align US execution with local and global Field Medical standards and benchmark productivity and effectiveness against internal and external best practices.

Performance measurement and analytics

Establish meaningful Field Medical KPIs covering reach, frequency, target attainment, interaction quality, stakeholder coverage, training…