Senior Director, Strategic Development & Advocacy National Lead

Job Description

The Senior Director, Strategic Development & Advocacy (SD&A) will serve as the national lead for ANI’s Portfolio, Pulmonology, and Acute Care businesses, encompassing multiple therapeutic areas and a rapidly growing segment of ANI’s Rare Disease organization. This newly created position is designed as a national enterprise leadership role, providing strategic direction, organizational leadership, and performance oversight to a team of seven SD&A Directors and Associate Directors supporting the Portfolio, Pulmonology and Acute Care businesses nationwide.

This non-sales field marketing leadership role will report directly to the Vice President, Brand & Engagement Excellence as part of ANI’s Commercial organization.

The Senior Director will lead national Thought Leader (TL) engagement strategy across the portfolio, set standards and expectations for SD&A execution, and serve as the primary SD&A leader across cross-functional stakeholders. This Senior Director will provide national leadership across specialty and acute care areas including Rheumatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Pulmonology, Podiatry and Acute Care. This role is critical in ensuring that TL insights, speaker programming, advocacy engagement, and stakeholder partnerships are executed with consistency, aligned to portfolio strategy, and compliant with all company policies.

• Serve as the national SD&A lead for ANI’s Portfolio, Pulmonology, and Acute Care business, ensuring consistent strategy, execution, and insight generation across therapeutic areas.
• Develop and implement portfolio-level Thought Leader (TL) engagement strategies that align with commercial objectives while allowing for therapeutic-area nuance.
• Provide direct managerial oversight, mentorship, coaching, and performance guidance to seven SD&A team members across the United States.
• Lead the hiring, onboarding, and organizational integration of SD&A team members supporting ANI’s Acute Care expansion, ensuring alignment with SD&A standards and operating model.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Legal/Compliance, Medical Affairs, Analytics, Operations, and Training teams to align portfolio strategy, prioritize initiatives, and drive cross-functional planning.
• Lead national speaker bureau strategy, including Thought Leader identification, contracting oversight, prioritization, and impact evaluation.
• Ensure effective national oversight of congress strategy and participation, including SD&A presence at major meetings and alignment to portfolio objectives.
• Manage national insight aggregation and synthesis, ensuring timely, strategic routing of insights to brand teams and senior leadership.
• Set and evolve the national SD&A operating model, defining priorities, ways of working, and expectations across the portfolio.
• Establish functional goals and success measures to ensure high-quality execution, insight value, and organizational effectiveness across the SD&A organization.
• Identify, develop, and retain top SD&A talent, proactively managing performance, development plans, and succession readiness.
• Champion innovative, compliant approaches to Thought Leader engagement that advance SD&A impact across therapeutic areas.
• Involved with Sponsor ships and Patient Advocacy Organizations for the purpose of enterprise-wide coordination (not tactical) of specific functional activities.
• Operate in accordance with ANI’s code of conduct and all policies and procedures, maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct and compliance.

• Leadership:
  Demonstrated ability to inspire, guide, and develop SD&A leaders and direct reports in a distributed national team environment.
• Strategic Thinking:
  Strong capacity to align national TL strategy with brand vision and tactical execution.
• Influence, Collaboration & Negotiation:
  Ability to influence without authority, drive alignment across complex cross‑functional stakeholder groups, and effectively navigate negotiations with internal and external partners.
• Communication:
  Excellent verbal and written communication skills for executive‑level internal alignment and external engagement.
• Business Acumen:
  Understanding of…