Medical Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, life sciences, or healthcare.
• At least 10 years of cross-enterprise experience in pharmaceuticals or healthcare, in differing roles including strategy, transformation, organizational effectiveness, or capability leadership in a complex matrix environment.
• Advanced AI fluency demonstrated through recognized certification, applied experience, or a portfolio of AI-enabled solutions that improved decisions, workflows, capabilities, or measurable outcomes.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional transformation from opportunity identification and strategy through design, build, adoption, and measurable value realization.
• Ability to independently frame ambiguous challenges, develop evidence-based points of view, create strategies and solutions from a blank page, and advance work with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Strong strategic-design capability, including operating models, capability roadmaps, change strategies, implementation approaches, and value-measurement frameworks.
• Advanced ability to use quantitative and qualitative data, analytics, external evidence, and stakeholder insight to generate executive-level recommendations and inform decisions.
• Agility and composure in fast-paced environments, with the ability to anticipate needs, make sound decisions with incomplete information, and adjust direction as conditions evolve.
• Advanced intellectual and technical curiosity, learning agility, courage, and sound judgment; ability to challenge constructively, reflect on impact, act on feedback, and support continuous growth and capability development.
• Ability to work collaboratively and transparently across functions, teams, and organizational boundaries, integrate diverse expertise, build shared ownership, and advance enterprise outcomes.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in organizational leadership, data and analytics, or a related discipline.
• Prior agency consultancy experience.
• Direct Medical Affairs experience.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted, highly autonomous advisor to the respective Vice President and leadership team, setting the strategic agenda within the role's mandate and advancing priorities with minimal day-to-day oversight.
• Frame ambiguous business questions, identify root causes, establish hypotheses, and develop original, evidence-based points of view.
• Lead strategic planning across MSTs, Disease Clusters, portfolios, and/or COEs, translating enterprise and US Medical Affairs priorities into choices, integrated plans, decision rights, and measurable outcomes.
• Create strategies, business cases, roadmaps, frameworks, and executive recommendations from a blank page when needed.
• Anticipate needs and risks, make timely recommendations with incomplete information, and maintain momentum in fast-changing environments.
• Own and orchestrate complex cross-functional transformations from opportunity identification and strategy through design, activation, adoption, and multi-year value realization.
• Design future-state operating models, decision rights, capability architecture, and implementation roadmaps that are practical, scalable, and fit for Medical Affairs.
• Apply appropriate transformation, capability, and change methodologies, including design, capability maturity assessments, and behavior-change approaches.
• Establish strategic hypotheses, stage gates, dependencies, risk boundaries, and course-correction mechanisms while managing quality, compliance, and enterprise risk.
• Mobilize senior leaders and cross-functional partners around outcomes, choices, accountabilities, and critical decisions.
• Define value theses linking strategic choices and activities to stakeholder outcomes, organizational performance, and patient impact.
• Build value-realization frameworks linked to KPIs, leading and lagging indicators, adoption measures, and executive dashboards.
• Integrate quantitative analysis, qualitative insight, external evidence, and stakeholder feedback to assess progress and identify risks or opportunities.
• Recommend trade-offs, stop or redirect low-value work, scale effective work, and establish ownership for sustained benefits.
• Scan healthcare, technology, data, AI, and industry developments and translate relevant trends into strategic implications and actionable opportunities for US Medical Affairs.
• Identify, prioritize, and shape AI, automation, analytics, and digital use cases based on business need, data readiness, feasibility, scalability, adoption potential, risk, and expected value.
• Design and prototype practical AI-enabled workflows, decision-support tools, and scalable solutions with AI, data, digital, analytics, technology, and functional experts, maintaining human accountability.
• Build organizational AI fluency by translating complex concepts into practical applications and new ways of working across the US and NOCCs.
• Develop and lead integrated change and adoption strategies, including stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, communications, readiness, capability building, reinforcement, and value sustainment.
• Diagnose adoption barriers and design targeted interventions using appropriate change, capability, and behavior-adoption approaches.
• Equip leaders and teams with narratives, practical tools, decision support, and capability-building experiences to embed sustained behavior change.
• Establish adoption indicators, feedback loops, course-correction mechanisms, and clear ownership and dependencies for implementation.
• Build alignment and trusted partnerships across the enterprise to enable collective impact.
• Translate complex information, data, and strategic choices into concise executive narratives, recommendations, presentations, visual frameworks, decision materials, and impact summaries.
• Create executive-ready content from a blank page and deliver strategic updates tailored to audiences at all levels, clarifying implications, choices, risks, and required actions.
• Create functional organization communications, announcements, and change materials, including drafting, formatting, stakeholder review, publishing, and execution.
• Design and facilitate senior-leadership discussions, cross-functional working sessions, and programs that support informed decisions, alignment, accountability, and action.
• Lead relevant pillar strategic planning, prioritization, and portfolio oversight for the assigned MST, Disease Cluster, portfolio, or COE.
• Provide NOCC execution partners with context, strategic direction, timely decisions, and escalation leadership while retaining accountability for strategic coherence, design quality, adoption, and value realization.
• Provide cross-functional project partnering or coverage of peer MVEs during planned absences.

Benefits

• Health benefits
• Life benefits
• Disability benefits
• 401(k) with company contribution and match
• Vacation, personal days, holidays, and other leaves
• Performance-based cash incentive
• Potential eligibility for annual equity awards, depending on role level