National Director, Field Medical Affairs - Oncology

The National Director, Field Medical Affairs leads the strategy, development, and execution of the field Medical Affairs program for our client. The National Director provides scientific and people leadership for a field-based MSL team engaging healthcare professionals, external experts, professional societies, research networks, and other scientific stakeholders in compliant peer-to-peer exchange related to non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) with carcinoma in situ (CIS) who are unresponsive to BCG.
The role translates the Medical Affairs plan into clear field priorities, team capabilities, engagement objectives, insight-generation activities, and measurable execution. The National Director works with EVERSANA and our client’s Medical Leadership to align field resources, approved scientific materials, training, analytics, and operating processes while maintaining appropriate Medical and Commercial independence.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
MSL Leadership and Development
Recruit, onboard, develop, coach, and retain a high-performing field Medical Affairs team.
Establish clear expectations, performance objectives, development plans, succession plans, and routine coaching practices.
Build an organization reflecting a diverse and inclusive workforce that inspires, supports, and celebrates both team and personal achievements and empowers the team to achieve results.
Create a connected, inclusive, accountable, and productive team environment aligned to EVERSANA and our client’s cultural beliefs.
Conduct regular field visits, one-to-one meetings, team meetings, and scientific development activities.
Assess team capabilities and training needs; partner with Learning and Performance and subject-matter experts to build and sustain scientific fluency.
Implement effective onboarding program for new team members and establishes routine team meetings, education, 1:1 mentoring and feedback sessions to create successful team dynamics and individual development.
Oversee territory planning, external expert engagement planning, prioritization, resource deployment, and consistent execution across the team.
Utilize field coaching tools and territory field visits with MSLs to assure territory management and data fluency in the field.
Implement metric and insights reporting for internal team to update key stakeholders on a regular basis.
Ensure timely and appropriate performance management, recognition, and personnel actions in accordance with company processes.
Lead a field team supporting our client’s product and related scientific priorities. Maximize in-field team effectiveness.
Field Medical Strategy and National Execution
Translate the Medical Affairs strategy into field objectives, workplans, scientific engagement priorities, and team activities.
Lead development and implementation of field medical strategy, tactical plans, impact goals, and measures of execution.
Maintain deep understanding of the therapeutic strategy, clinical evidence, standards of care, competitive landscape, patient journey, payer dynamics, and emerging scientific developments.
Evaluate appropriate tools, analytics, and resources to support high-quality scientific exchange and effective stakeholder engagement.
Coordinate with Clinical Operations, Medical Information, Medical Education, Publications, and other Medical Affairs functions, as applicable.
Support advisory boards, congress strategy and execution, scientific booths, investigator engagement, research activities, and evidence-generation initiatives as assigned.
Ensure timely, accurate, balanced, non-promotional, and compliant responses to unsolicited medical information requests. Represent the field Medical Affairs program in internal governance, client meetings, operating reviews, and strategic planning discussions.
Direct national field execution for our client’s product across the applicable lifecycle stage.
Insights, Analytics, and Internal Feedback Loop
Establish a structured process for collecting, documenting, analyzing, and communicating actionable field medical insights.
Translate field observations and analytics into recommendations for Medical Affairs strategy, education, evidence generation, stakeholder engagement, and team capability development.
Develop routine program reporting for EVERSANA and client leadership, including progress against objectives, engagement quality, insight themes, risks, and opportunities.
Monitor execution and impact measures and use findings to improve field strategy, resource allocation, and operating practices.
Additional insight or analytics requirement: as requested by our client’s executive leadership.
Compliance, Quality, and Operational Management
Ensure team adherence to applicable laws, regulations, corporate policies, standard operating procedures, privacy requirements, and client-specific processes.
Ensure complete and timely documentation of external stakeholder interactions, insights, medical information requests, field activities, and required database entries.
Manage assigned budgets, vendors, resources, timelines, and deliverables responsibly.
Promote scientific integrity, data accuracy, quality, and continuous improvement across all field Medical Affairs activities.
Maintain readiness for quality reviews, audits, monitoring, and corrective or preventive actions, as applicable.
Publications and Scientific Communications, If Applicable
Provide support for publication planning, manuscripts, abstracts, posters, oral presentations, congress submissions, and scientific communication activities, as assigned.
Coordinate with authors, investigators, agencies, and cross-functional partners to support scientifically accurate and timely deliverables.
Program-specific publication or scientific communication responsibility: Collaborate with internal medical affairs team and external authors to deliver planned manuscripts, abstracts and posters in timely fashion. Collaborate with internal medical affairs colleagues to assure timely MLR approval for key data dissemination.
People Leader Responsibilities
Interview, select, supervise, develop, and retain team members.
Set job objectives, work methods, performance expectations, and development priorities.
Conduct performance discussions and administer personnel actions in accordance with company policy and applicable law.
Oversee team execution to support client expectations, program goals, and EVERSANA operational standards.
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PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Advanced scientific or clinical degree (MD, DO, PhD, PharmD, MSN, NP, PA-C), or equivalent required.
Demonstrated success leading and developing field-based Medical Affairs teams. 4+ years of industry experience and >2 years of demonstrated leadership experience managing field-based teams preferred.
Experience developing and executing Medical Affairs strategy, field plans, training, stakeholder engagement, insight processes, and performance reporting.
Strong scientific, clinical, strategic, operational, and business acumen.
Strong planning, organizational, analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, presentation, and executive communication skills.
Knowledge of applicable pharmaceutical industry, OIG, FDA, privacy, and non-promotional Medical Affairs requirements.
Ability to manage multiple priorities, ambiguity, changing business needs, and cross-company collaboration.
Flexibility in adapting/reacting to changing market dynamics and competitive challenges.
High sense of urgency and commitment to excellence in the successful achievement of objectives.
Excellent organizational skills to support leadership and initiative.
Proficiency with standard business technologies and field reporting or customer relationship management systems.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities. Must be able to identify and analyze the needs of the business and translate problems into business opportunities.
Knowledge of personnel management including recruitment, hiring, progressive discipline process, coaching and motivation.
Therapeutic area or disease-state experience: Oncology, GU Oncology experience strongly preferred.
Product launch, indication expansion, or lifecycle experience: Launch experience and start up program strongly preferred.
Product, mechanism, platform, or modality experience: Uro Oncology and knowledge of intravesical therapy desired, including immunotherapy and/or gene therapy:
Research, publications, payer, value and evidence, or specialized experience: Previous experience in supporting account-based scientific exchange to support payer approvals. Experience in IIT program development and previous experience in field medical plan development are required.
Travel requirement: 60% or greater, including overnight travel, as business needs require.
Behavioral Competencies Required
Leadership and people development: Builds an organization reflecting a diverse and inclusive workforce that inspires, supports, and celebrates both team and personal achievements.
Strategic thinking and execution: Confident self-starter able to lead the development of field strategy and execute/manage the executi

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
Yes