Cytokinetics is a late-stage, specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company seeking an Associate Medical Director to lead field medical operations and manage a field-based French Medical Science Liaison (MSL) team.
Requirements
- Subject matter expert in HCM disease state and its management in France as well as on aficamten and its competitors
- In collaboration with the French Benelux Sr. MD, strategize on the development of the country medical affairs plan and implementation of a field Medical Affairs vision and strategy, in alignment with the company’s corporate strategies and objectives
- Lead field medical launch-related planning for aficamten (a cardiac myosin inhibitor) being developed for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (oHCM)
- Ensure the MSL team is continuously trained on emerging aficamten data as it’s presented at congresses & via scientific publications and incorporate such data into the MSL aficamten Communication Plan
- Foster a compliant, cross-functional, customer-centric team approach between the TMS team and other Cytokinetics field-based teams/roles as the company transitions from Research & Development to a Commercial organization
- Manage and mentor a MSL team while providing strong leadership to develop and motivate the MSL team to meet and exceed key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Clearly communicate national and local TMS goals, objectives, and KPIs. Actively support the TMS team and their efforts by advocating and promoting collaboration within the team, across internal working groups, and with customers
- Guide and assist the TMS team in key opinion leader and expert cardiologist engagement in the field and with internal stakeholders
- Establish and maintain collaborative relationships with targeted scientific leaders to develop potential scientific and clinical therapeutic ideas related to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and heart failure (HF)), including coordination/support of investigator-initiated, non-registration pre-clinical and/or clinical studies
- In close collaboration with international and global team establish a CRM system in France and being the responsible person for this in France
- Ensure that all MSL interactions and activities adhere to corporate and healthcare compliance guidance, including those related to scientific interactions with internal and external groups, responses to unsolicited requests for medical/scientific information, and discussion of external research
- Collect insights from the field and sensitize the MSLs on competitive intelligence
- Facilitate a training strategy for disease state and portfolio/pipeline products to enhance MSL team knowledge
- Maintain clinical, scientific, and technical expertise in cardiovascular medicine
- Serve as a scientific resource to internal functional areas within Cytokinetics including serving as a member of cross-functional teams as required
- Work with Medical Affairs and other internal, cross-functional colleagues on initiatives including congress planning, medical information, publications, medical education, and speaker training, as well as align priorities around areas of research interest
- Train and organize the MSL team to effectively support congress activities like booth duty, scientific session coverage, KOL engagement, competitive intelligence collection, etc.
- Support planning, execution and leadership French advisory boards to gather feedback and input on study design, clinical trial data, clinical experience and medical education
- Provide medical input and support to the commercial and market access activities for France
- Ability to travel regularly as required, region wide and globally, as necessary for business needs and development support
- Collaborate and work closely with all necessary related and associated departments including Marketing, Regulatory, Legal, Market Access and Pharmacovigilance
- Ensure that any associated needs of health care professionals and other key customers in France are known, understood and addressed in right time and in a compliant manner
Benefits
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Retirement Plan
- Visa Sponsorship
- Four Day Work Week
- Generous Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Relocation Assistance
