ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · 4 hours ago
Senior Director, Strategic Development & Advocacy National Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
$230K/yr - $275K/yr
15+ years expANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is seeking a Senior Director, Strategic Development & Advocacy to lead their national initiatives across the Portfolio, Pulmonology, and Acute Care businesses. This role involves providing strategic direction, overseeing a team, and ensuring effective engagement with Thought Leaders and stakeholders in various therapeutic areas.
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Responsibilities
Serve as the national SD&A lead for ANI’s Portfolio, Pulmonology, and Acute Care business, ensuring consistent strategy, execution, and insight generation across therapeutic areas
Develop and implement portfolio-level Thought Leader (TL) engagement strategies that align with commercial objectives while allowing for therapeutic-area nuance
Provide direct managerial oversight, mentorship, coaching, and performance guidance to seven SD&A team members across the United States
Lead the hiring, onboarding, and organizational integration of SD&A team members supporting ANI’s Acute Care expansion, ensuring alignment with SD&A standards and operating model
Collaborate with Marketing, Legal/Compliance, Medical Affairs, Analytics, Operations, and Training teams to align portfolio strategy, prioritize initiatives, and drive cross-functional planning
Lead national speaker bureau strategy, including Thought Leader identification, contracting oversight, prioritization, and impact evaluation
Ensure effective national oversight of congress strategy and participation, including SD&A presence at major meetings and alignment to portfolio objectives
Manage national insight aggregation and synthesis, ensuring timely, strategic routing of insights to brand teams and senior leadership
Set and evolve the national SD&A operating model, defining priorities, ways of working, and expectations across the portfolio
Establish functional goals and success measures to ensure high-quality execution, insight value, and organizational effectiveness across the SD&A organization
Identify, develop, and retain top SD&A talent, proactively managing performance, development plans, and succession readiness
Champion innovative, compliant approaches to Thought Leader engagement that advance SD&A impact across therapeutic areas
Involved with Sponsorships and Patient Advocacy Organizations for the purpose of enterprise-wide coordination (not tactical) of specific functional activities
Operate in accordance with ANI’s code of conduct and all policies and procedures, maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct and compliance
Qualification
Required
15+ years of commercial experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry with a similar including leadership in strategic field marketing or franchise-level TL engagement
Experience managing direct reports and leading field-based SD&A or comparable strategic engagement teams required
Bachelor's degree in life sciences, pharmacy, or a related field; advanced degree is strongly preferred
Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at a national, enterprise leadership level
Proven track record in developing and implementing Thought Leader strategies through compliant and engaging interactions via existing and meaningful relationships
Willingness to travel nationally, including weeknights and weekends, to attend meetings and industry events (~40%)
Preferred
Experience leading or supporting Thought Leader engagement within at least one of the following therapeutic areas is strongly preferred: Rheumatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Pulmonology, or Acute Care
Benefits
Health insurance coverage
Life and disability insurance
Retirement savings plans
Paid leave programs
Paid holidays
Paid time off
Company
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$581.8MKey Investors
Citizens Bank
2024-08-07Post Ipo Debt· $306.8M
2023-05-05Post Ipo Equity· $75M
2021-11-03Post Ipo Equity· $75M
Leadership Team
Krista Davis
SVP, Chief Human Resources Officer
Meredith Cook
SVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
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