Overview
The Director, Medical Affairs (Medical Science Liaison) is a field-based medical leader responsible for shaping and executing regional field medical strategy for Iovance’s developmental and marketed products through high-impact scientific exchange, generation and communication of actionable medical insights, and cross-functional partnership. This role develops and sustains relationships with regional and national external experts (e.g., key opinion leaders, investigators, and healthcare systems) and leads territory planning and prioritization to support medical objectives, including clinical trial site identification and execution, consistent with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies. The Director operates with a high degree of autonomy and accountability, provides strategic thought leadership within the field medical organization, and helps establish consistent standards, processes, and capability building across the team, including coaching and mentoring as assigned.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities
- Own and advance the regional field medical strategy within the assigned territory, ensuring impactful, fair-balanced, evidence-based scientific exchange and representing Iovance as a credible, trusted partner to the healthcare community.
- Lead delivery of high-quality scientific and clinical presentations on disease state(s) and Iovance products to internal and external audiences.
- Strategically identify, map, and profile external experts and develop and operationalize territory engagement plans that prioritize the highest-impact accounts.
- Develop and sustain strategic relationships with healthcare professionals and clinical investigators in academic and community settings.
- Establish and maintain a high bar for insight quality by collecting, synthesizing, and communicating actionable field medical insights.
- Provide scientific leadership for Medical Affairs activities and scientific sessions at key congresses/meetings.
- Lead strong cross-functional partnerships to ensure coordinated execution of the medical plan and alignment on key priorities across the region.
- Provide leadership and coaching, including onboarding, field shadowing, and peer mentoring to contribute to field medical capability building.
Travel
- Ability and willingness to travel up to 60% of the time within the assigned territory, as business needs require.
Required Education, Skills, and Knowledge
- 12 to 15+ years of relevant biopharmaceutical/biotechnology industry experience, including 7 to 10+ years in Medical Affairs and/or an MSL role.
- Advanced scientific degree (MD, PhD, PharmD).
- Demonstrated capability in needs assessment, facilitation, prioritization, decision making, and collaboration.
- Strong meeting management skills and operational capabilities, including use of metrics/KPIs, documentation, and continuous improvement.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and align stakeholders within a complex matrix environment without direct authority.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work within timelines.