Medical Affairs Director – Movement Disorders

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🕒 September 25

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $260k - $290k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👨‍⚕️ Medical Director

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Lundbeck

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1915

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

💰 $566.4M Post-IPO Debt - Lundbeck on 2025-05

Healthcare • Manufacturing • Consulting

Lundbeck is a global pharmaceutical company specializing exclusively in brain diseases and neuroscience. With more than 70 years of expertise, Lundbeck researches, develops, and commercializes therapies for neurology and psychiatry conditions — including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, migraine, epilepsy (Lennox‑Gastaut), depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and substance use disorders. The company runs clinical trials, maintains an active R&D pipeline and medical education initiatives, and partners with external innovators while emphasizing patient centricity, sustainability, and global operations from its Denmark headquarters.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic medical leadership for Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) • Support launch readiness and execution across the U.S. Medical Affairs organization • Shape and advance U.S. medical strategy using scientific evidence and external stakeholder insights • Co-create launch strategy with Commercial, Patient Advocacy, Market Access, Regulatory, Clinical Development, Pharmacovigilance, and other stakeholders • Support launch readiness, lifecycle planning, and integrated evidence generation strategies • Translate clinical data and scientific insights into stakeholder engagement and brand-planning strategies • Build and maintain relationships with investigators, KOLs, advocacy leaders, and healthcare professionals • Represent U.S. Medical Affairs in scientific forums and stakeholder engagements • Monitor disease-area trends, competitor activities, and policy developments • Develop and execute an integrated U.S. medical communications strategy • Co-create the scientific narrative, clinical value story, lexicon, data story, key messages, evidence summaries, and communication themes with Global Medical Affairs • Own U.S.-specific publication strategy and priorities • Plan and execute U.S. congress activities, including data rollouts, abstracts, posters, oral presentations, symposia, booths, and communications • Develop stakeholder mapping and engagement plans • Oversee U.S. medical materials, slide decks, FAQs, scientific response documents, congress assets, field medical materials, training content, data visualizations, and digital scientific content • Support Field Medical scientific readiness and training • Serve as medical reviewer in the promotional review process • Manage medical writing agencies, publication vendors, freelancers, congress vendors, budgets, timelines, and deliverables • Drive cross-functional alignment, scientific excellence, external engagement, and execution of the U.S. medical strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Accredited advanced scientific or clinical degree (MD, PharmD, PhD or MS) • 5+ years of progressive, non-field-based Medical Affairs experience within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry or at an agency supporting the pharmaceutical or biotech industry • Minimum 2+ years contributing to medical strategy development, launch readiness, scientific communications, publication planning, and congress management • Experience designing and executing Medical Education programs (CME and non-CME) • Strong understanding of clinical trial data, evidence generation, publication practices, and therapeutic-area strategy • Experience developing publication plans, congress materials, scientific platforms, and medical content • Knowledge of compliance requirements, publication ethics, and medical/legal/regulatory review processes • Experience serving as a medical reviewer for promotional materials • Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills • Experience building collaborative cross-functional relationships and influencing without authority • Experience managing multiple priorities in a dynamic environment • Exceptional communication skills for conveying complex scientific information clearly and persuasively • Demonstrated integrity, professionalism, and commitment to ethical standards • Authentic, long-term engagement within the rare disease community • Ability to collaborate with patient advocacy groups, patients, caregivers, clinicians, and industry stakeholders • Deep understanding of rare disease best practices, access and policy considerations, media engagement, and patient support ecosystems • Strong external network across rare disease leaders, clinical societies, and alliances • Highly proactive and adaptable leadership in evolving, data-limited environments • Willingness and ability to travel up to 35% domestically; occasional international travel may be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Eligibility for a 25% bonus target based on company and individual performance • Eligibility to participate in the company’s long-term incentive plan • Flexible paid time off (PTO) • Medical, dental, and vision health benefits • Company match 401k • Reasonable accommodations during the employment application process • Equal employment opportunity workplace

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