MSL Head, East Region, Hematology

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • Horsham, PA

5d • $196,000 - $342,700 • Remote

About The Position

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Our Oncology team is focused on the elimination of cancer by discovering new pathways and modalities to finding treatments and cures. We lead where medicine is going and need innovators with an unwavering commitment to results. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Head for the East Region for Hematology. This is a field-based position with the preferred candidate being located within the Eastern Region of the United States. The MSL Head, East Region is responsible for leading the Hematology Medical Science Liaison (MSL) national organization of MSLs and Field Directors, in providing scientific, clinical, research, and educational support to health care professionals and internal partners related to the current and future Johnson & Johnson Hematology products, while ensuring customer centric, insight driven, and compliant scientific engagement across the nation. This person will also set and implement the vision for a fast-growing organization and Hematology field strategy while also collaborating closely across the value stream of internal and external stakeholders. The main responsibility is to establish the organizational strategy for their specific Hematology products and oversee its execution at a national level. They are also tasked with providing support, coaching, and development to Field Directors through the use of a skills framework, ongoing feedback, and leadership coaching principles. Additionally, the MSL Head offers coaching, conducts development assessments, and provides guidance for the MSLs in their organization. Furthermore, the MSL Head is essential in facilitating and maximizing their team’s appropriate access to healthcare professionals (HCPs) by removing obstacles and coordinating field activities to promote effective scientific engagement.

Requirements

• An Advanced degree such as a PharmD, PhD or MD is required
• A minimum of 10 years of Medical Affairs and/or Clinical Research & Development experience in the pharmaceutical industry is required
• Minimum of 2-3 years previous MSL management responsibility is required.
• Demonstrated track-record of successful business partner cross-functional collaboration, understanding of external healthcare landscape, scientific acumen, and/or clinical research experience.
• Exhibits strong ability to analyze, develop and execute on customer-facing field strategies.
• Must be familiar with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and adaptable to embracing new AI technology
• Requires travel of up to 60% - 70% annual domestic travel depending on geography (includes overnight travel); Ability to maintain an office in the home required.
• Must live in close proximity to an airport.
• Must be available to attend periodic national scientific congresses and key strategic/scientific meetings at the corporate office in Horsham, PA.

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated success in leading field-based teams including experience in evidence generation and communication is highly preferred.
• Residency/fellowship experience is highly preferred.
• Hematology Oncology experience is preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of strategies for the engagement of opinion leaders (national, regional, and local) and community practitioners to support the Hematology organization. The MSL East Head will oversee the tactical execution to ensure field teams are delivering timely and impactful data communication to external stakeholders in accordance with current regulatory and health care compliance guidelines.
• Collaborate with the Hematology Therapeutic Area Leads and work closely with GCO, R&D, and Global Medical partners to develop and execute field-based strategies to support the Hematology research and collaboration strategies.
• Responsible for building a qualified and diverse organization through providing Field Director coaching and support in the recruiting and hiring process. In addition, the MSL East Head is responsible for people development and talent retention by providing mentorships, career coaching, motivation and inspiration.
• The MSL East Head is a member of disease area leadership teams (GMAT, DAS) and is responsible for understanding the compound development plans, organizational priorities and timelines, and budgeting and staffing models for business planning for each compound.
• Responsible for understanding, building and managing external alliance partners as they relate to field based medical affairs. This includes understanding legal, privacy, and compliance guardrails along with building an effective collaborative strategy for HCP engagement.
• Cultivate strong, collaborative relationships with Therapeutic Area Leadership to secure buy-in and alignment. This includes partnership with the National Sales Director, Director of Marketing, National OCE Director, National KAM Director, Director of Sales Training, National TLL Director, and other Sr. Leaders to enable effective cross functional collaboration and achievement of shared goals.
• Will advance a cohesive, analytics driven approach to field insights, integrating data across teams and applying AI enabled tools to inform risk assessment, strategic opportunities, and enterprise decision-making.
• Define and implement a vision and long-term field strategy for the Johnson & Johnson Hematology MSL teams that interface with US academic and community stakeholders
• Perform FTE and budget needs assessments to strategically build organizational growth model integrating data from multiple field inputs to guide enterprise priorities, assess operational feasibility, and optimize resource allocation
• Develop innovative strategies for stakeholder interactions that result in mutually beneficial relationships through medical insights, advisory boards, and other customer engagement meetings setting expectations and standards for scientific exchange excellence, including senior and executive-level HCP engagements
• Develop and execute MSL launch strategies for new products and line extensions leveraging competitive scientific intelligence and anticipating future medical and organizational needs to inform long-term medical strategy
• Ensure optimal territory plans are established and executed to meet business needs and maintain relationships with local stakeholders using compliant aggregated field insights and appropriate metrics to maximize impact and identify opportunities for capability enhancement
• Implement systems and tools to support performance analysis, customer interaction reporting, and account planning to ensure optimal performance innovating and refining approaches for consistent collection, analysis, and elevation of field data, AI tools, and insights across the enterprise
• Collaborate with internal business partners (US and Global Medical Affairs, Communications, Commercial, Research & Development etc.) to ensure field teams are capable of delivering on business strategies by supporting evidence generation and communication needs across the portfolio
• Facilitating MSL team support of evidence generation (company-sponsored trials, investigator-initiated studies, registries) in collaboration with USMA and GCO for early and late-stage development products
• Lead the strategic development and implementation of disease-related and asset strategies of the Hematology MSL team
• Monitor and anticipate the changing therapeutic and healthcare environment impacting opinion leaders and other HCPs’ understanding of our products’ data evaluating competitive trends and predicting industry and marketplace developments to proactively adapt medical strategy
• With a high level of scientific acumen, identify initiative opportunities to address OL and other HCPs’ educational gaps and research opportunities
• Synthesize MSL applicable scientific information (e.g., basic science, clinical trial and real world evidence) to lead the development of educational materials/communication tools, and champion regulatory/legal/HCC approvals
• Identify opportunities for MSL team to collaborate and support J&J research and develop an MSL support plan in alignment with TALs & R&D partners.
• Point of contact and key partnering responsibility with functional leaders of clinical R&D, MA trial teams, Medical, Marketing, and HCC/Legal
• Communicate field medical impact to senior stakeholders and generate buy-in for strategic initiatives
• Provide scientific leadership and support to the Medical Affairs Department on a variety of projects and programs guiding leaders and teams in strategic thinking, influence skills, and application of scientific and clinical expertise across the organization
• Ensures consistent understanding of strategy and drives its application across the field leadership team.
• Sets expectations and holds teams accountable for evaluating competitive trends, translating insights into medical implications, and collecting, interpreting, and sharing competitive scientific intelligence across the field organization.
• Conduct performance coaching discussions with Field Director/People Leaders
• Provide oversight responsibility for team training and development
• Ensure optimal team capacity, field activity levels, and field metrics
• Manage the team through special projects and cross-functional support activities
• Provide strategic oversight and partnership with Field Directors to recruit, hire, and retain a qualified, diverse, and high-performing workforce
• Provide career and succession planning in support of staff reaching their highest potential
• Provide an optimal working environment by promoting Credo values, clear direction, active listening, respect for diversity, collaborative partnership, empowerment, accountability, innovation, and recognition of high performance
• Build a strategy to attract and hire experienced talent to support the growing portfolio
• Retain internal high-performing employees and ensure employees have active development plans
• Coach and enable people leaders to inspire teams, address performance and personnel challenges, and drive engagement
• Guide leaders in strengthening influence skills and leverage metrics to identify and close skill capability gaps.
• Build a culture of collaboration and candor where diverse perspectives are embraced
• Build and sustain MSL scientific and clinical acumen across new disease states, marketed products, and pipeline assets by identifying knowledge gaps and driving targeted upskilling and skill-transfer initiatives

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree