Regional Thought Leader Liaison, Alzheimer's Disease - Northeast

Eisai US

3d • $185,000 - $242,800 • Onsite

About The Position

The Associate Director, Regional Thought Leader Liaison (RTLL), AD Marketing leads and executes regional and local engagement with existing and emerging key opinion leaders (KOLs), advocacy groups, and professional societies. The role develops and implements Alzheimer’s disease education intended to simplify the early patient journey from diagnosis through treatment and monitoring. It identifies emerging opinion leaders, supports speaker bureau activities, and assesses speaker programs for educational value, effectiveness, meaningfulness, and compliance with company policies.

The position also gathers and synthesizes field insights to inform brand strategy, messaging, educational initiatives, and promotional programs. It serves as a central point for field engagement with regional and local advocacy groups and professional societies, and collaborates with marketing, sales, corporate advocacy, program vendors, and other field teams. The role covers multiple states in the Northeast and involves up to 50% domestic travel, including overnight travel and some weekend travel. Regular in-person engagement with healthcare professionals and other third parties is an essential function.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) required.
• At least 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare field.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience developing and implementing brand plans.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Understanding of legal and regulatory issues affecting pharmaceutical product marketing and of the dynamics of the U.S. healthcare environment.
• Self-starter with strong clinical acumen, a solutions-oriented approach, and the ability to work autonomously.
• Collaborative approach and ability to integrate and motivate cross-functional team members and stakeholders.
• High learning agility and ability to thrive in a rapidly evolving, complex, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence.
• In-depth knowledge of integrated health systems operations in the current market environment.
• Ability to establish and maintain strong business relationships.
• Commitment to patient-centricity, innovation, inclusion, and compliance.
• Ability to successfully complete company training and customer-mandated and vendor credentialing requirements.
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle legally, safely, and successfully; a valid driver’s license is required.
• Ability to meet third-party in-person access and credentialing requirements, including vaccination attestations or proof where required; reasonable accommodations may be requested for qualifying medical or religious reasons.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree preferred.
• KOL engagement experience strongly preferred.
• Marketing experience preferred.
• Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic-area experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Engage face-to-face where possible with national, regional, local, and emerging thought leaders to identify best practices for simplifying the patient journey.
• Identify promotional speakers and ensure they complete product, disease-state, and compliance training.
• Collaborate with the Promotional Program Manager regarding speaker usage and issues.
• Provide feedback on nominations for new speakers when applicable.
• Coordinate or facilitate new-product and annual compliance training.
• Work with the Marketing Team on annual speaker recontracting.
• Update and track KOL engagements using the Veeva/Vector KOL management platform.
• Collaborate with other field teams to support local and account-level engagement with national, emerging, and regional thought leaders.
• Coordinate with the field sales team, brand leads, and speaker-program vendor regarding speaker availability and utilization.
• Ensure appropriate use of speaker programs within allocated regional budgets.
• Gather and communicate field feedback to the brand regarding promotional programming.
• Identify potential opportunities for institutional group trainings.
• Identify, assess, and appropriately engage regional advocacy groups and local or regional professional societies in collaboration with Corporate Advocacy.
• Develop and implement above-brand Alzheimer’s disease education with advocacy groups and professional societies to simplify the patient journey from diagnosis through monitoring.
• Serve as a central point for field engagement with regional and local advocacy groups and professional societies.
• Synthesize field learnings into insights and best practices, and regularly present them to marketing and sales leadership to inform brand strategy, messaging, educational initiatives, and promotional programs.
• Monitor KOL communications through publications, congresses, podium presentations, and one-to-one interactions.
• Stay current on data readouts consistent with FDA-approved labeling, medical congress outputs, and podium and symposia presentations.
• Identify best practices that help simplify the patient journey.
• Engage KOLs affiliated with key regional health systems to understand the patient journey.
• Complete company training programs and customer-mandated and vendor credentialing requirements.
• Travel domestically, including overnight trips and some weekend travel, for meetings with KOLs, advocacy groups, professional societies, and conferences.
• Engage in person regularly with HCPs and other third parties at their offices, institutions, and other appropriate locations.

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in the Eisai Inc. Annual Incentive Plan and Eisai Inc. Long Term Incentive Plan.
• Eligible to participate in company employee benefit programs; additional benefits may be available.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director