Head of MSLs

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $245k - $305k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Satsuma Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2016

💊 Pharmaceuticals

🧬 Biotechnology

Pharmaceuticals • Biotechnology

Satsuma Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a pharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing therapies for migraine using its SMART (Simple MucoAdhesive Release Technology) drug-delivery platform. Its first approved product, Atzumi™ (STS101), is a dihydroergotamine (DHE) nasal powder indicated for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura in adults. The company highlights clinical publications and presentations and emphasizes improved efficacy and administration via its mucoadhesive nasal delivery approach.

📋 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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