MA 1 Beacon-USA ION
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Boston, MA 02108, USA
ASSOCIATE MEDICAL DIRECTOR, HAE Ionis has played a pivotal role in developing products such as SPINRAZA, TEGSEDI, WAYLIVRA, QALSODY, and WAINUA, which are already approved in major markets around the world and successfully marketed by its partners.
The company is currently building up its medical and commercial organizations to allow for commercialization of its wholly owned assets.
One of our late-stage assets is donidalorsen, formerly known as IONIS-PKK-LRx.
It is an investigational ligand-conjugated antisense (LICA) medicine designed to target the prekallikrein (PKK) pathway for the treatment of people with hereditary angioedema (HAE).
HAE is a rare genetic disease that is characterized by severe and potentially fatal swelling of the arms, legs, face and throat.
PKK plays an important role in the activation of inflammatory mediators associated with acute attacks of HAE.
By inhibiting the production of PKK, donidalorsen could be an effective prophylactic approach to preventing HAE attacks.
SUMMARY: The Associate Medical Director is a member of the Specialty Rare Medical Affairs Team, reporting to the Medical Affairs Therapy Area (TA) Lead for Specialty Rare.
The Associate Director will support the achievement of our scientific and medical strategies for donidalorsen in hereditary angioedema (HAE), serving as part of the Core Medical Team as we build towards the launch of these assets.
Key responsibilities include supporting the TA Medical Lead with development and execution of medical launch plans, supporting the medical director prepare for advisory boards/insight generation, and supporting the field medical lead in planning engagement of KOLs at congresses as well as recommending and helping create required resources for the Field Medical Team.
The Associate Medical Director will work cross-functionally and help execute medical plans across clinical and medical functions with a particular emphasis on helping ensure the development and review of Medical Information materials.
RESPONSIBILITIES: Create training materials for the Field Medical Team aligned with medical strategy by working with the FMT lead, Training coordinator, and Medical Director/TA Lead.Partner with the TA Medical Lead to support execution of medical launch plan tactics.Engage with key opinion leaders and participate in relevant congresses and help support congress planning with Field Medical.Serve as a medical HAE and donidalorsen expert and be a member of the donidalorsen extended brand team and other cross-functional teams as appropriate.Review and share input on scientific narratives as additional product data becomes available.Review and share input on evidence generation plans and provide input to ongoing studies, as appropriate.Engage with key opinion leaders and participate in relevant congresses.Participate and share input to enable the development and execution of the medical plan.Help with the strategy and creation of congress symposia.Work with the medical director/TA lead, clinical and commercial to support advisory board planning and execution.Maintain strong scientific knowledge of the hereditary angioedema market from both a scientific perspective as well as from the perspective of the current and future competitive landscape.Help with vendor management as appropriate for the various projects to support the brand.Provide medical insights and guidance for product strategies, help support medical review (PRC, MMRC, Med Info), competitive intelligence, and health outcomes.Work closely with Medical Affairs colleagues to ensure appropriate budget setting, resource allocation, and expense monitoring.Ensure compliance of all Medical Affairs activities with all local regulatory and legal requirements.REQUIREMENTS: Experience in rare disease highly desirable.Experience developing and executing medical affairs strategies and plans.Established track record in the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of Medical Affairs roles with 5 years or more of experience in the industry.Experience working in the US market, and global experience a plus.Experience supporting product launches.Strong organizational skills, delivering on commitments in a timely manner, while maintaining a strong customer focus.Entrepreneurial thinking, self-starter with positive can-do attitude.Demonstrated ability to successfully communicate scientific results and effectively respond to data queries from customers and/or consultants.Ability to handle ambiguity and uncertainty, make appropriate prioritization decisions aligned with strategy, and drive projects to completion.Excellent judgment and willingness to take prudent risks.Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.This person may work at our headquarters in Carlsbad, CA or satellite office in Boston, MA.
Fully remote work may be an option.
If remote, up to 30% travel to HQ and Congresses is required.BENEFITS TO THIS OPPORTUNITY: Opportunity to work within antisense technology in the company that created new biotechnology industry sector focused on RNA-targeted therapeutics.Ionis is at an incredible time of growth – highly visible and demanding role as the company builds its commercial capabilities accelerating the next phase of growth; opportunity to join a very smart team that is key to the future of the business.Ionis is a small and innovation-focused organization with a prolonged cycle of productivity and success, well positioned for accelerated growth and to build commercial capabilities.Very entrepreneurial in nature, with a good balance of being small and nimble; well-capitalized to invest in core capabilities and beyond.Close partner exposure to senior executives offering a lot of experience with launches and partnering with medical affairs.Please visit our website, http://www.ionis.com for more information about Ionis and to apply for this position; reference requisition # IONIS003551.
Ionis offers an excellent benefits package!
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The pay scale for this position is $170,020 to $223,000.
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