Thought Leader Liaison - TAVNEOS - Midwest; Rare Disease

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Thought Leader Liaison - TAVNEOS - Midwest

What you will do

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. This critical role will focus on maintaining and building relationships with external Opinion Leaders and large medical centers involved in vasculitis, and the broader Rheumatology and Nephrology provider landscape.

The Thought Leader Liaison (TLL) Sr. Manager will report into the Director Thought Leader Liaison and will join the National team of Rare Disease Inflammation Thought Leader Liaisons in the Inflammation Business Unit. The TLL will be a critical member of the Brand Team and will coordinate closely with field teams. The TLL will be responsible for the following, but not limited to:

• Identify, cultivate, and maintain professional relationships with established and up-and-coming regional Opinion Leaders in ANCA Vasculitis (Rheumatology / Nephrology / other specialties diagnosing and managing vasculitis)
• Support deep engagement of key customers (ex. Navigating IDNs / Centers of Excellence, Professional Organizations, Foundations/Patient Organizations)
• Manage OL Speaker bureau relationships including supporting speaker training, compliance, and product theater speaker management
• Manage regional speaker bureau, including providing speaker recommendations
• Identify, map, and manage relationships with key national Vasculitis Centers and other large treatment facilities (includes the detailed mapping of referral patterns, key relationships, and influencers)
• Coordinate and leading all one-to-one exchanges between brand team and KOLs across key initiatives and events

• Attend and manage brand activity at key regional and national inflammation conferences (may encompass Rheumatology, Nephrology, Pulmonology), including managing product theaters, and other ancillary brand activities
• Manage overall regional sponsorship budget, including working with organizations to secure sponsor ships, and owning regional congress plan
• Coordinate executive meetings with OLs at national conferences
• Complete all necessary conference and speaker contract requirements in a timely manner
• Coordinate with marketing to ensure all congress materials are delivered on time

• Work cross functionally to drive and develop aligned external engagement strategies across multiple cross functional teams including medical, training, marketing, and sales
• Coordinate closely with the sales team to ensure alignment with conference OL engagement plan as well as other OL/account engagement
• Provide customer and market insights back to the marketing team and provide input into P2P development, advisory boards, and strategy
• Partner with the HCP Marketing team to develop advisory board strategy, content, advisory recommendations, and attend advisory boards as appropriate
• Provide insights summary from key congresses to the marketing team

• Leading peer-to-peer marketing initiatives such as advisory boards, speaker bureau & product theater content development
• Shaping team content development needs include disease state
• Participate in strategic discussions with brand team

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