Head of MSLs

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $245k - $305k / year

⏰ Full Time

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1987

💰 Debt financing on 2017-06

Search is one of the UK’s leading multi-discipline recruitment agencies, covering more than 14 different specialisms and operating from 13 offices nationwide.

📋 Description

• Build and lead Satsuma’s U.S. field medical organization • Oversee recruitment, onboarding, scientific engagement planning, coaching, and performance management • Prepare MSLs for accurate, balanced scientific exchange with healthcare professionals and appropriate payer clinical audiences • Lead field training delivery, proficiency assessment, and launch readiness • Develop field medical strategy, vision, and direction across the organization • Lead recruitment, onboarding, development, and retention of MSL talent • Develop field medical engagement plans, account segmentation, territory recommendations, and coverage priorities • Anticipate factors influencing field medical strategy and market position, providing strategic direction across functional areas • Lead field training needs assessment, delivery, coaching, proficiency assessment, and certification • Partner with Scientific Communications on scientific content and HEOR on payer evidence training • Prepare MSLs to discuss migraine disease burden, treatment options, Atzumi clinical evidence, approved labeling, appropriate use, and evidence limitations • Coach MSLs on payer scientific exchange, including healthcare resource utilization, treatment patterns, real-world evidence, economic analyses, and data limitations • Identify field content needs and establish pathways for scientific questions requiring additional expertise • Cascade company-wide field medical policies and practices with executive leadership • Lead scientific engagement with headache specialists, investigators, scientific experts, and appropriate payer clinical stakeholders • Direct field medical participation in congresses, advisory boards, and other scientific activities • Coordinate scientific content and logistics with cross-functional teams • Establish field insight collection and reporting practices; communicate actionable findings to Medical Affairs leadership • Support evidence-generation initiatives by identifying research interests, evidence gaps, and potential investigators • Manage the field medical budget, capacity, external support, and performance measures • Assess scientific proficiency, engagement quality, account plan execution, and insight usefulness • Partner on field systems requirements, adoption, training, and documentation quality • Ensure field activities follow company standards for scientific exchange, unsolicited inquiries, adverse-event reporting, product complaints, and healthcare professional interactions • Collaborate with Market Access on scientific evidence needs while preserving Medical Affairs independence • Execute additional responsibilities, initiatives, and special projects as business needs evolve

🎯 Requirements

• Advanced clinical or scientific degree, including PharmD, PhD, MD, or an equivalent degree in a relevant discipline, required • 12+ years of relevant pharmaceutical or biotechnology Medical Affairs experience, including substantial field medical experience and demonstrated MSL leadership • Demonstrated experience recruiting, coaching, developing, and managing field medical teams • Experience supporting U.S. Medical Affairs launch readiness, including field onboarding, training, proficiency assessment, and deployment preparation • Strong ability to critically evaluate clinical evidence, study design, statistical findings, and evidence limitations • Demonstrated experience conducting and coaching balanced scientific exchange with healthcare professionals and scientific experts • Working knowledge of HEOR, real-world evidence, payer evidence needs, and limitations of economic and observational analyses • Experience developing account engagement plans, assessing field insights, and translating findings into Medical Affairs recommendations • Strong budget management, organizational, analytical, and program management skills • Experience using field medical systems and supporting consistent documentation, reporting, and adoption • Working knowledge of U.S. requirements and company standards applicable to field Medical Affairs and scientific exchange • Excellent communication, cross-functional collaboration, and leadership skills, with demonstrated scientific integrity and sound judgment • Demonstrated ability to develop and articulate company-wide field medical strategy, vision, and direction, with the ability to anticipate emerging risks and their impact on business success • Proven experience negotiating and influencing at the executive level, partnering with leadership to align field medical strategy with organizational goals • Ability to travel nationally for team meetings, congresses, and field engagement; travel anticipated at up to 40% • Neurology or headache experience is preferred • Migraine experience and payer scientific engagement experience are highly desirable • Experience building field medical capabilities in a growing biopharmaceutical organization preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Health Insurance • Dental & Vision Insurance • Healthcare & Dependent Care FSA • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) • 401(k) Savings Plan • Long-term Incentive Plan • Life Insurance • Accident & Disability Insurance • Telemedicine • Generous Paid Time Off • Company Holidays

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