Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 1 day ago
Senior Director, Thought Leader Liaison Team Lead, Hematology & Nephrology
Boston, MA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$229K/yr - $344K/yr
10+ years expAlexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a leader in the pharmaceutical industry, seeking a Senior Director for their Thought Leader Liaison Team in Hematology & Nephrology. This leadership role focuses on generating key opinion leader insights, developing advocacy, and managing a high-performing team to drive strategic initiatives within the business unit.
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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 & Nephrology Marketing supporting TLL team pull-through of brand strategy and tactical plans
Partner with Marketing Leads 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
Qualification
Required
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
Location and Travel requirements: The duties of this role are based in the Boston Seaport office environment. Willingness to travel ~50% of the time to execute field team leadership, including significant overnight and weekend travel. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours
Preferred
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
Benefits
Eligibility for various incentives—an opportunity to receive short-term incentive bonuses, equity-based awards for salaried roles and commissions for sales roles
Qualified retirement programs
Paid time off (i.e., vacation, holiday, and leaves)
Health, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms of the applicable plans
Company
Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease is focused on pioneering new possibilities for the rare disease community.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$5.8M2020-12-12Acquired
1999-02-12Post Ipo Equity· $5.8M
1996-02-29IPO
Leadership Team
Frederic Chereau
SVP, Strategy and Business Development
Imran Shakur
Director, IRT and Technology Lead
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