Field Medical Affairs, Team Lead - Eastern US – Pulmonary Hypertension

Job Description

Role Summary

The Field Medical Affairs, Team Lead of US Medical Affairs (USMA) drives strategic clarity, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration to enable impactful scientific engagement and insight generation. The Senior Director, Team Lead is a key leader responsible for guiding, coaching, and developing Field Medical Affairs Professionals (FMAP) to execute high-quality scientific and medical activities in alignment with USMA and enterprise priorities. In addition, they ensure all work reflects our company's commitment to scientific integrity, ethical leadership, and patient-centered value.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

Strategic Leadership

• Ensures adherence to company policies and SOPs, execution of field medical plans and strategies, and support of research initiatives as appropriate.
• Provide clear direction, vision, and alignment to USMA strategy and enterprise priorities.
• Foster team cohesion, morale, and resilience through effective communication, recognition, and accountability.
• Create a culture of trust and psychological safety (i.e. safe to speak up) that promotes continuous learning and growth.
• Empower team members to lead, take ownership, and drive innovation across the organization.
• Serve as a trusted partner to senior leaders, offering insights that shape decisions and strategic planning.
• Set clear, measurable objectives aligned to USMA goals and monitor progress against established performance expectations.
• Ensure accountability by the disciplined use of performance documentation, highlighting impact, and addressing gaps in a timely manner.
• Act as a responsible data steward to inform decision making and demonstrate impact by the use of data, metrics, and reporting tools.
• Model integrity and ensure team adherence to compliance, medical governance, and regulatory requirements, fostering a culture of transparency and accountability.
• Contribute to annual budget planning through a clear understanding of future needs, effectively manage team budget, and act as a financial steward of company resources.

Medical & Scientific Strategy

• Ensure team understanding and execution of medical and scientific strategies within assigned therapeutic areas or functions.
• Translate strategic objectives into actionable engagement plans and measurable team deliverables.
• Monitor execution quality, scientific accuracy, and compliance with regulatory, legal, and governance requirements.
• Guide teams to engage confidently in scientific exchange, strengthening scientific rigor and external stakeholder value. Ensure teams assert the company’s evidence-based scientific perspective with fair-balance and professionalism.
• Integrate field insights into strategic planning, enabling continuous refinement of USMA medical and scientific priorities.

Mentoring & Talent Development

• Coach, mentor, and develop team members through structured feedback, goal setting, and guiding individualized development plans.
• Recruit, onboard, and train while providing ongoing coaching and performance management.
• Strengthen team capability by identifying growth opportunities.
• Partner with HR and leadership to ensure succession readiness within your team.

Required Qualifications, Skills, & Experience

Minimum

• MD, PhD, PharmD, DNP, or DO with demonstrated ability to effectively lead and coach scientific/medical colleagues at all skill and knowledge levels.
• 3 years in customer-facing, field medical affairs role or relevant experience. Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills, strong personal integrity, teamwork abilities (including the ability to lead a therapeutic team across a geographical area), business acumen, and focus on scientific education and dialogue.
• Reside in the Eastern US region
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a constantly changing environment and to motivate a team to do the same.
• Desire to develop and manage a team in an environment of belonging, engagement and empowerment by:

• Navigating change in an evolving health care landscape
• Leveraging to ensure business value, per global strategy.
• Ensuring accountability to drive an inclusive culture.
• Strengthening the foundational elements.

Preferred

• 5 years of experience in a field facing role plus prior people management experience.
• Relevant therapeutic area knowledge and/or knowledge of the US healthcare delivery system.
• Previous management experience, especially field-based medical professionals.
• Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite and ability to interface effectively with a variety of technical platforms, including Gen AI.
• Scientific/medical research experience, including scientific/medical publications.

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Required Skills:

Hypertension, Leadership, Medical Affairs, Medical Communications, People Leadership, Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs, Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, Scientific Communications, Strategic Thinking, Team Management

Preferred Skills:

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