Medical Director, US Medical Affairs

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $276.1k - $322.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👨‍⚕️ Medical Director

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Cytokinetics

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1998

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $450M Post-IPO Debt on 2022-06

Healthcare • Consulting • Manufacturing

Cytokinetics is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of potential medicines aimed at improving muscle function. The company is particularly active in developing treatments for cardiovascular and neuromuscular diseases, such as heart failure, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and other conditions of impaired muscle function. Cytokinetics has a robust pipeline of small molecule muscle activators and inhibitors and is committed to improving patients' lives through its scientific research and development efforts. The company's mission revolves around empowering muscle and thereby empowering lives, with patients being the central focus of its activities. Based in South San Francisco, Cytokinetics has been pioneering the field of muscle biology for over 25 years.

📋 Description

• Develop and execute the Medical Affairs strategy and US Plan of Action for aficamten • Serve as medical and scientific expert for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy • Educate healthcare professionals on aficamten’s clinical profile and place in HCM therapy • Provide medical leadership through development, launch readiness, and lifecycle management • Execute medical launch activities • Provide medical input into brand, evidence generation, market access, and lifecycle management plans • Provide medical expertise for REMS activities • Partner with Clinical Development, Commercial, Regulatory, Safety, HEOR, Market Access, and Legal/Compliance teams • Plan scientific congress strategy, advisory boards, field-force training, medical information responses, and related strategic projects • Collaborate with regional, global, and US Field Medical Affairs colleagues • Support medical education, grant, and sponsorship review and evaluate initiative metrics • Manage medical programs, vendors, timelines, budgets, contracts, and performance measures • Respond to healthcare professional inquiries with clinical and scientific support • Review medical and promotional scientific materials through MLR • Contribute to integrated evidence planning, evidence-gap identification, real-world evidence, and investigator-sponsored research • Establish field medical scientific priorities, training plans, and stakeholder engagement strategy • Analyze field medical insights to inform medical, evidence-generation, and educational strategy • Support field material development and field medical education • Build and maintain a US hypertrophic cardiomyopathy key opinion leader network • Engage external hypertrophic cardiomyopathy experts in scientific exchange

🎯 Requirements

• MD/DO or PharmD required • 3-5 years of Medical Affairs experience required • Prior pharmaceutical industry and Medical Affairs Medical Director experience • Cardiovascular training and clinical experience strongly preferred • Knowledge of Medical Affairs strategy, including evidence generation, scientific communications, and external engagement • Experience with product approvals, launch, and peri-launch activities highly desirable • Background in academic medicine and clinical research • Familiarity with biostatistics and epidemiology • Experience managing vendors, budgets, and strategic timelines • Experience developing medical plans and aligning medical objectives with broader product and organizational strategy • Familiarity with OPDP, PhRMA code, and key pharmaceutical industry regulations • Ability to evaluate and interpret clinical trial data, peer-reviewed literature, treatment guidelines, and real-world evidence • Ability to work independently and as part of an integrated, interdisciplinary team • Ability to translate complex scientific information into clear, accurate, and actionable medical guidance • Strong project management skills, including managing multiple priorities, budgets, vendors, timelines, and deliverables • Working knowledge of congress strategy, advisory boards, medical education, and scientific communications • Excellent oral, written, presentation, and executive communication skills • High scientific integrity, sound medical judgment, professionalism, and commitment to patient benefit • Proficiency with Microsoft Office • Ability to travel approximately 30% of the time

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity in the form of stock options and/or restricted stock units • Comprehensive health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance coverage • 401k retirement benefits with employer match • Learning stipends • Wellness stipends • Paid time off

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