Senior Director, Thought Leader Liaison Team Lead, Rare Hematology

AstraZeneca • Boston, MA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Director, Thought Leader Liaison Team Lead, Rare Hematology is a leadership position within the US Hematology & Nephrology (Hem/Neph) Business Unit that will focus on achieving the TLL strategic plan that includes key opinion leader (KOL) insight generation, KOL and key account development & advocacy, and promotional speaker training and development across inline and pipeline indications in Rare Hematology. The position reports to the Executive Director, Head of Rare Hematology Marketing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field
• 10 plus years’ work experience in biotech; including extended experience within the US market.
• Experience in TLL leadership, field sales leadership, and/or product marketing leadership.
• Strong in-depth clinical, technical and scientific knowledge in complex disease state.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully achieve results through effective collaboration and x-functional partnership and alignment.
• History of showing the highest standards of ethics and integrity and delivering on commitments.
• Proven track record of delivering results that meet or exceed targets and objectives.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and organizational abilities

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree (MSc, PhD, MBA)
• Prior experience and/or relationships within the clinical/KOL community in Hematology, Hematology/Oncology, and Cardiology and/or Nephrology area

Responsibilities

• Hiring, developing and leading a high-performing TLL team in achieving key objectives, including: KOL insight generation & advocacy development
• Commercial speaker identification, development, and relationship management
• Developing clinical advocacy for and support initiatives for appropriate diagnosis in key accounts for assigned disease areas
• Key account profiling in support of market shaping activities
• Maintaining a pulse on evolving disease and marketplace dynamics
• Drive strong collaboration and partnership with commercial leadership teams, including Marketing, Regional Sales Directors, Strategic Accounts Leads, Diagnostics, and Market Access to effectively execute overall commercial plan.
• Build an inclusive and high-performing culture enabling others to succeed across performance, professional growth, and development.
• Serve as a key member of Hematology Marketing leadership team supporting TLL team pull-through of brand strategy and tactical plans.
• Partner with Marketing to drive primary KOL insights generation strategy; directly lead or oversee the facilitation and execution of commercial advisory boards.
• Partner with Marketing to identify & profile key accounts & KOLs for pipeline therapeutic areas.
• Build TLL national business plan and support developing regional business plans, aligned to Hematology & Nephrology portfolio strategy.
• Partner with Marketing leads to guide development and implementation of peer-to-peer education, including speaker programming strategy.
• Provide leadership on TLL management/strategy at regional and national congresses, including senior leader briefing in advance of KOL engagements.
• Partner compliantly with Medical and MSL leadership when planning and executing engagements with top KOLs.
• Partner with HCP Engagement Operations in compliant collaboration supporting activities with contracted HCPs.
• Identify commercial opportunities to partner with medical societies to enable disease and product education.
• Assess TLL deployment to optimally balance effort allocation and alignment to meet business needs and effectively reach KOL targets.
• Oversee TLL resource allocation, project budgets, and timelines.
• Maintains the highest degree of professionalism and in accordance with the company’s code of Ethics and Business Conduct

Benefits

• qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]
• paid vacation and holidays
• paid leaves
• health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage

What This Job Offers

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