Sr. Director, National Medical Field Team

Taiho Oncology, Inc. • Princeton, NJ

34d • Remote

About The Position

Looking for a chance to make a meaningful difference in the oncology space? Taiho Oncology is on a mission: to improve the lives of patients with cancer, their families, and caregivers. Our “People first” approach means we also highly value our employees, who work relentlessly to help execute our mission. Taiho’s success is founded on ensuring we always act with accountability, collaboration, and trust. By following these guiding principles, we earn and maintain the confidence of patients, the global healthcare community, collaborators and partners, and each other. Together, we are working on cutting-edge science and growing our portfolio and pipeline across a range of tumor types to address the ongoing and evolving needs of patients. Advanced technology, a world-class clinical development organization, and state-of-the-art facilities: these and other resources empower us to innovate and touch the lives of more and more patients. It’s our work, our passion, and our legacy. We invite you to join us. Field Employee Value Proposition: At Taiho Oncology, our compassion for patients shape how we support our people, empowering them to do their best work for those who need it most. As the leader of our Medical Field team, you’ll set the vision and coach a high-performing regional Medical Affairs field team, elevating the quality and consistency of scientific engagement nationwide. You’ll design and scale best-in-class training for the MFT, building capabilities and career growth. Partner across a dynamic, collaborative, and growing Medical Affairs organization to turn insights into impact. Your leadership makes a direct difference for patients. Position Summary: The Senior Director, National Medical Field Team has responsibility for overall direction and execution of the activities of the medical field team balancing strategy with mission, for optimal team motivation and performance. Harmonizes and advances the voice of the field to leadership to ensure the needs of the end users are fully considered for systems creation and delivery The incumbent will also be an integral member of the Brand teams and Medical Affairs Leadership Team. This person will interface with the external scientific community including scientific leaders, community oncologists and health care decision makers.

Requirements

• An advanced clinical/scientific degree is required. PharmD is preferred.
• 10 years of experience in a medical field team role interacting with Scientific Leaders (SL), is preferred.
• At least 2-4 years of hematology/oncology experience is required.
• At least 5+ years of experience in people management is required.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously, work independently and as part of a team.
• Requires excellent presentation skills and emotional intelligence.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret scientific and technical information and data.
• Excellent English communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Expertise in Microsoft Word Suite is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to the development of Medical Affairs product strategy and leads the development of the medical field plan including developing medical field resources and budgets management.
• As a core member of brand team and core medical team (CMT), provides inputs for the development of overall product strategy.
• Assesses the training & educational needs of the field team and determines and evaluates appropriate educational and scientific exchange material needs, creating an environment where initiative-taking team members will aspire to higher levels of performance.
• Develops & reports appropriate metrics for the assessment of the team function against expected outcomes. Provides insights reports for the key products.
• Assesses and evaluates platforms utilized by medical field and propose improvements.
• Mentors and prepares field team members for optimal development and performance in the field and assigned workstreams through training, change management, communications and sharing of best practices.
• Responsible for the direction and execution between the medical field team and other functions such as Clinical Development, Marketing, Sales and Compliance.
• Defines and develops field team assignments presented at internal (National Meetings, etc.) and/or external medical meetings (for example, Congresses and Advisory Boards).
• Facilitate synchronization of Taiho Canada medical field team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees