Associate Director, Medical Affairs - Uro-Oncology

Ferring Pharmaceuticals • Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ

411d • $208,000 - $258,000

About The Position

As the Associate Director of Medical Affairs - Uro-Oncology at Ferring, you will be instrumental in shaping the medical strategy and advancing the therapeutic pipeline within the Uro-Oncology field. This role involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of medical strategies with the company's vision of improving patient care. You will drive scientific communication, medical education, and stakeholder engagement, establishing Ferring as a trusted partner in the Uro-Oncology community.

Requirements

• Advanced Degree in Life Sciences: MD, PharmD or PhD required
• Minimum 10 years' medical affairs experience required, with 3 - 5 years of relevant experience or practice in Urology preferred
• Demonstrated ability to write and review research protocols
• Solid foundation in science with appropriate business acumen
• Demonstrated ability to impart clinical/medical information clearly and effectively
• Thorough understanding of the FDA, HIPAA, and other ethical and legal guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry to be able to function in a compliant and ethical manner.
• Excellent communication (oral and written) and presentation skills.
• Strong inter-personal skills with a high level of sensitivity relative to the needs of patients, health care providers, and internal collaborators.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to exercise sound business judgment.
• Strong ethics with good attention to detail.
• Self-starter, consistently going above and beyond.
• Adaptable, agile, and resilient.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation of the US Uro-Oncology medical affairs strategy for all relevant assets.
• Support and lead projects related to pre-approval and planned post-approval medical activities in close collaboration with cross-functional colleagues.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure medical communication plans are aligned with business units.
• Support, plan and lead tactics of the medical scientific strategy, including publications, congress activities, advisory boards, medical education, opportunities, medical information, scientific training, and speaker development.
• Support development and management of the budget for medical affairs tactics, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Represent Medical Affairs on cross-functional projects, meetings and committees to offer medical input, clinical expertise and data knowledge.
• Draw on disease state expertise and product knowledge to represent Medical Affairs in external settings such as medical congresses or company-sponsored scientific advisory meetings/Advisory Boards.
• Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders.
• Support internal and external collaborators with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information.
• Present information to healthcare professionals upon request to provide peer education.
• Train internal stakeholders (i.e. MOVLs, MSLs, sales teams) on key scientific and medical topics in assigned therapeutic area.
• Ensure internal and external presentations contain the most current and relevant medical information.
• Continuously develop an understanding of the relevant associated disease clinical landscape.
• Maintain the scientific knowledge necessary to respond to questions encountered from key stakeholders.
• Support Phase 3, prelaunch as well as post launch activities with stakeholders and actively work to develop appropriate Investigator Initiated Studies (IISs) strategy.
• Ensure that all medical affairs activities are conducted in full compliance with relevant guidance, rules and regulations.
• Support medical initiatives across other therapeutic areas relevant to licensing, translational, and clinical development activities, as requested.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support product development, launch, and post market activities, including identification and support of clinical investigators and clinical study sites as well as life cycle management, as requested.
• Complete all company and job-related training and expense reporting as assigned and within the required timelines.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with a premium differential, inverse to base salary, to be paid by employees
• 401k plan and company match
• Short and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Wellness benefits
• Reimbursement for certain tuition expenses
• Sick time frontloaded yearly of 40 hours, or higher if state or local law requires
• Vacation time for full time employees to accrue between 112.5 and 150 hours yearly in the first four (4) years of employment, and additional accruals starting in the fifth (5th) year of employment
• 12 to 13 paid holidays per year
• 26 weeks of paid parental leave
• Policy that allows employees to work up to two days from home and three at a Ferring site, weekly

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
• Education Level: Master's degree