- Ensure alignment and optimization of strategy as well as execution of the Olezarsen field medical team.
- Ensure all bi-directional communications between Headquarters and Field teams are streamlined, simplified and coordinated.
- Analyze emerging trends to determine gaps and opportunities.
- Provide and leverage expert knowledge, innovative thinking and resources to assist in high priority projects and departmental/ team meetings and events.
- Partner with the Medical Director to support launch planning and medical strategy and tactics.
- Review and share input on scientific narratives as additional product data becomes available.
- Engage with key opinion leaders and participate in relevant congresses and drive congress planning with Field Medical.
- Participate and share input to enable the development and execution of the medical plan, and support the Medical Director and TA Medical Lead attain endorsement for the plan by senior leadership at Ionis.
- Work with Medical Director and TA Medical Lead to support advisory board planning and execution.
- Maintain strong scientific knowledge of the dyslipidemia market from both a scientific perspective as well as from the perspective of the current and future competitive landscape.
- Help with vendor management as appropriate for the various projects to support the brand.
- Provide medical insights and guidance for product strategies, medical review, competitive intelligence, and health outcomes.
- Ensure compliance of all Medical Affairs activities with all local regulatory and legal requirements
- Medical degree, or doctorate degree required
- Experience in rare disease, or cardiology, or metabolic disease highly desirable
- Experience developing and executing medical affairs strategies and plans
- Established track record of achievement in the pharmaceutical industry in Medical Affairs with at least 5 years of experience, in either field medical or medical strategy
- Experience working in the US market, and global experience a plus
- Experience supporting product launches
- Strong organizational skills, delivering on commitments in a timely manner, while maintaining a strong customer focus
- Entrepreneurial thinking, self-starter with positive can-do attitude
- Demonstrated ability to successfully communicate scientific results and effectively respond to data queries from customers and/or consultants
- Ability to handle ambiguity and uncertainty, make appropriate prioritization decisions aligned with strategy, and drive projects to completion
- If remote, up to 30% travel to HQ and Congresses
- Opportunity to work within antisense technology in the company that created new biotechnology industry sector focused on RNA-targeted therapeutics
- Ionis is at an incredible time of growth - highly visible and demanding role as the company builds its commercial capabilities accelerating the next phase of growth; opportunity to join a very smart team that is key to the future of the business
- Ionis is a small and innovation-focused organization with a prolonged cycle of productivity and success, well positioned for accelerated growth and to build commercial capabilities
- Very entrepreneurial in nature, with a good balance of being small and nimble; well-capitalized to invest in core capabilities and beyond
- Close partner exposure to brand leadership team, offering a lot of experience with launches and development within Medical Affairs
- Ionis has an excellent benefits package
Associate Medical Director, Hypertriglyceridemia - Boston, United States - Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Description
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., is headquartered in Carlsbad, California, with offices in Boston, Massachusetts, and Dublin, Ireland.For more than 30 years, Ionis has been the leader in RNA-targeted therapy, pioneering new markets and changing standards of care with our novel antisense technology.
Ionis currently has three marketed medicines and a premier late-stage pipeline highlighted by industry-leading cardiovascular and neurological franchises.Our scientific innovation began and continues with the knowledge that sick people depend on us, which fuels our vision to become the undisputed leader in genetic medicine, utilizing a multi-platform approach to discover, develop and deliver life-transforming therapies.
As the first company to fully harness the power of RNA technology for human therapeutics, Ionis' platform continues to revolutionize drug discovery and transform lives for patients with unmet needs.
We are building upon our innovative research and drug development excellence to provide greater value to patients, and we are well positioned financially to deliver on our strategic goals.
Ionis is a challenging, motivating and rewarding environment designed to foster innovation and scientific excellence. Our success is a direct result of our outstanding employees.We are interested in bringing together a diverse group of individuals with different skill sets and perspectives into this creative environment to be part of a productive and inclusive team.
While acknowledging people are actively engaged in hybrid/remote work, we continue to invest time, money, and energy into making our workplace locations a place where our culture and employees can thrive.
We believe engaging on a day-to-day basis, in person, builds solid and lasting relationships, and contributes positively to our culture and innovation.
From the heart of our stunning Carlsbad campus, we aim to provide a central connection point for all our employees.
These facilities give us the opportunity to connect cross-functionally, collaborate and to build on the success of our business as we continue to grow.
Join us and experience our unique culture while you develop and expand your career.ASSOCIATE MEDICAL DIRECTOR, HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA (HTG)
Ionis has played a pivotal role in developing products such as SPINRAZA, TEGSEDI, WAYLIVRA, QALSODY, and WAINUA, which are already approved in major markets around the world and successfully marketed by its partners.
The company is currently building up its medical and commercial organizations to allow for commercialization of its wholly owned assets.
Ionis has a premier late-stage pipeline highlighted by its industry-leading neurological and cardiometabolic franchises.Based on the breadth and remarkable progress of the pipeline, Ionis is projecting to have a vast number of new transformational products on the market in the coming years.
Ionis is also well positioned financially to commercialize its own clinical product pipeline of potential first-in-class and/or best-in-class medicines.
Olezarsen is a late-stage investigational ligand-conjugated antisense (LICA) medicine designed to inhibit the production of apoC-III for patients who are at risk of disease due to elevated triglyceride levels.
SUMMARY:
The Associate Medical Director, HTG is a member of the CardioMetabolism Medical Team, reporting to the Executive Director, Medical Affairs Therapy Area Lead for CardioMetablism.
The Associate Director will support the achievement of our scientific and medical strategies for Olezarsen, serving as part of the Olezarsen Core Medical Team as we build towards the launch of Olezarsen.
Key responsibilities include working on the continuous development, continuity, alignment and improvement of medical activities, systems and processing impacting subfunctional Medical Affairs teams.
The role will support the Medical Director with development and execution of medical launch plans, advisory boards, and engagement of KOLs at congresses as well as recommend required resources/ processes to ensure Field Medical execution excellence.
The candidate will have a solid clinical, scientific, and pharmaceutical industry background as well as a deep understanding of Medical Affairs and Marketing/Commercial principles, guidelines, and industry standards.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
REQUIREMENTS:
The successful candidate must be an energetic individual with strong interpersonal skills.
The person who will be successful in this role will have the ability to work with a diverse set of individuals across different functions and have experience working in and with field strategies and execution.
The person will be expected to add value to the different teams by bringing forward experience in field medical affairs strategy complemented by an understanding of the complexity of FCS, sHTG, and other cardiometabolic markets, drug development, commercialization, launch, and lifecycle management.
The person in this role must be a self-motivated, approachable, articulate team player who has a high level of emotional intelligence, integrity, and a core value system consistent with the Ionis culture and core principles.
ADVANTAGES FROM THIS OPPORTUNITY:
Ionis offers an excellent benefits package Follow this link for more details: Ionis Benefits
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The pay scale for this position is $169,700 to $222,000
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