🕒 4 days ago
Leads and develops a team of Medical Science Liaisons while setting field medical strategy, guiding scientific engagement and insight generation, and partnering across functions to support evidence generation and portfolio priorities.
Senior Director, Global Medical Affairs
🕒 3 days ago
Global Medical Affairs StrategyMedical Launch ReadinessProduct Lifecycle PlanningEvidence Generation
📜 Description
- Build relationships with scientific experts, investigators, professional societies, and patient advocacy organizations.
- Guide scientific communications, publications, education, congress activities, and insight generation.
🛠️ Requirements
- Advanced scientific or clinical qualification: An MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent advanced degree in a relevant scientific or clinical discipline.
- Extensive medical affairs leadership: At least 10 years of medical affairs leadership experience, with five or more years of global medical affairs experience preferred.
- Relevant therapeutic expertise: Experience in neuroscience, sleep medicine, neurology, psychiatry, or rare diseases, with the ability to interpret complex scientific evidence and translate it into actionable medical strategies.
- Global product launch experience: Demonstrated leadership in at least one successful global product launch. Experience spanning North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific markets is strongly preferred.
- Global medical leadership: Experience serving as a global medical lead for late-stage clinical development programs or commercially available products, with accountability for strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment.
- Medical affairs and evidence-generation expertise: Strong understanding of global medical affairs strategy, scientific evidence generation, payer evidence requirements, medical communications, and commercialization readiness.
- Strategic and business acumen: Ability to align medical priorities with clinical development, regulatory requirements, market access needs, and commercial objectives while maintaining scientific independence and patient focus.
- Cross-functional leadership: Proven ability to influence and collaborate effectively across matrix organizations, including commercial, market access, HEOR, regulatory affairs, and clinical development functions.
- Scientific communication skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication, presentation, and scientific storytelling capabilities, with the ability to communicate complex concepts to diverse scientific and business audiences.
- Stakeholder engagement: Strong relationship-building and influencing skills, including experience engaging senior executives, global scientific experts, healthcare professionals, investigators, and patient advocacy groups.
✨ Benefits
- Performance-based incentives: Eligibility for a company bonus based in part on organizational and individual performance.
- Retirement savings: Access to a company-sponsored 401(k) plan and pension benefits, subject to applicable eligibility requirements.
- Comprehensive healthcare: Eligibility for medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Paid time off: Vacation benefits and certain leave programs to support personal well-being and work-life balance.
- Flexible spending benefits: Access to eligible benefits for healthcare and/or dependent care expenses.
- Financial protection: Life insurance and death benefits, subject to applicable plan terms.
- Employee well-being programs: Access to employee assistance resources
- Fitness benefits
Full job description
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Director, Global Medical Affairs based in the United States.
We are seeking an accomplished Senior Director, Global Medical Affairs, to lead global medical strategy for an innovative investigational treatment targeting orexin receptor 2 (OX2R) for sleep-wake disorders. In this strategic leadership role, you will oversee medical affairs planning and execution across the product lifecycle, with a strong focus on launch readiness, scientific engagement, and evidence generation. You will collaborate with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to align medical strategy with clinical development, regulatory milestones, and commercialization objectives. Building trusted relationships with global scientific experts, healthcare professionals, and patient advocacy organizations will be central to advancing disease understanding and addressing unmet patient needs. You will also guide scientific communications, publications, educational initiatives, and stakeholder engagement across key international markets. This remote opportunity is ideal for a strategic medical affairs leader with proven global launch experience and a passion for translating scientific innovation into meaningful patient impact.
Accountabilities
Requirements
Benefits
Similar jobs
Search more Medical Director jobs
Chief Population Health Officer
🕒 5 days ago
Innovaccer Analytics👥 1001 - 5000 employees🏢 Hospital & Health Care
🕒 5 days ago
Lead population health and value-based care strategy, provider contracting, and clinically integrated network development, partnering with healthcare executives to improve quality, outcomes, and financial performance.
🕒 7 days ago
Leads medical strategy for pharmaceutical advertising clients, manages and develops medical teams, and ensures agency content and campaigns are scientifically accurate, compliant, and aligned with client goals.
🕒 7 days ago
As Medical Director, you will shape clinical strategy and guide drug candidates through early development, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to design impactful clinical trials.
Medical Director (Utilization Management)
🕒 17 days ago
Harris-Jones-Staffing-Recruiting-LLC👥 1 - 10 employees🏢 Staffing And Recruiting
🕒 17 days ago
The Medical Director of Utilization Management will evaluate hospital admissions and post-acute services for Medicare Advantage members, ensuring clinical integrity and regulatory compliance.