The Head of Medical Strategy provides medical expertise to the rheumatology commercial and medical teams and provides clinical and scientific guidance to the Medical Affairs team ensuring the successful implementation of the medical portion of the company’s plan for its products in the rheumatology space.

You should consider this role if you like to work in an environment where you can:

• Derive strategic medical plans for marketed and late-stage pipeline products as part of an integrated strategic plan for asset portfolio management.
• Compliantly contribute to the cross-functional organizational rheumatology strategy through collaboration with leadership in other areas such as clinical development, real-world evidence generation, publications, market access, sales, and marketing
• Brainstorm science-related data needs and their communication channels and platforms
• Assess need and ensure execution of key exploratory data analysis projects via liaison with Medical colleagues on Patient Solutions Teams, Medical colleagues from other regions, and the Biostatistics group. 
• Provide medical review of grants and IIS proposals for rheumatology 
• Maintain therapeutic area expertise by collecting competitive intelligence and disease state info from both literature and Key Opinion Leaders via liaison with the Field Medical Team.
• Build, maintain and nurture authentic scientific/medical engagement with both national and regional key opinion leaders.  
• Assess the need for planning and running Medical Advisory Boards within appropriate rheumatology customer base.  
• In collaboration with Medical Communications and Strategic Publications, manages the publication plan developed each year by the Global Medical Director in collaboration with the Patient Solutions Team (PST).
• Ensure appropriate focus, timely preparation, review and submission of publications at scientific congresses 
• Quality assurance and review of medical materials including brand promotional materials and internal medical education resources 
• Provide input to global R&D to best represent patient unmet needs in development programs including pipeline assets.

• Developing training materials and programs to ensure brand teams, sales training department and the medical teams have appropriate levels of expertise in relevant disease states and with relevant products 
• Accountability as a rheumatology scientific/medical expert and company products their relevant therapeutic indications
• Reviewing topics for CME events related to relevant therapeutic areas and provides professional input for symposia development and key congresses in accordance with Company educational programs and scientific communications and publications policies 
• Developing partnerships with key opinion leaders to help determine existing data gaps and appropriate data mining programs for products with indications in therapeutic area; developing this feedback into an exploratory data analysis plan, approved by the Head of Medical Immunology and implemented in conjunction with PST and/or an external agency
• Ensuring adherence by the team to regulatory and compliance policies and procedures within the therapeutic area and US Medical Affairs
• Significant travel (approx. 40%), including international, required 

• MD or DO degree is a preferred requirement 
• Preference for completion of rheumatology fellowship training program
• Any additional scientific/medical training or experience in immunology related conditions is a plus.  
• Leadership and management along with employee development expertise is required
• Able to build strategic working relationships with both diverse internal and external medical and scientific experts, as well as brand team members 
• Ability to think based on both business and scientific principles 
• Strong project management skills, including projects managed via a matrix organization
• Self-motivated, proactive problem solver 
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills including presentation skills