The Field Director, Hematology & Oncology, Medical Affairs takes ownership for overseeing and ensuring that the following activities are completed with high quality, effectively, and efficiently:
• Leading a successful Medical Science Liaison (MSL) field team, including but not limited to:
• Recruiting and hiring excellent candidates with the optimal mix of scientific knowledge, clinical experience, communication skills and drive to meet RRD’s requirements.
• Onboarding new MSLs to ensure they have the knowledge and skills they need to successfully execute their role as efficiently as possible.
• Ensuring ongoing training of all MSLs to maintain their scientific and communication skills.
• Establishing appropriate and compliant metrics for MSL performance, tracking those metrics and reporting on those metrics.
• Managing personnel issues with MSLs to maximize field engagement and minimize disruptions.
• Developing RRD’s KOL engagement strategy and then successfully implementing that strategy, including but not limited to:
• Targeting KOL engagement based on RRD’s Medical Strategy.
• Identifying potential KOLs for engagement, prioritizing those KOLs and establishing expectations about engagement with the various priorities of KOLs.
• Aligning MSL KOL engagement territories to ensure that the prioritized KOLs have consistent MSL engagement.
• Managing KOL engagement during MSL staffing gaps, both temporary and longer-term in nature, ensuring that RRD does not lose its engagement with its KOLs.
• Ensuring that MSLs are gathering and reporting on insights gathered during KOL interactions and that those insights are being effectively summarized and appropriately shared with the rest of the RRD organization.
• Serving as the MA point person for commercial in support of commercial’s speaker programs, providing speakers with MSL resources for training and to assist in answering their questions.
The Field Director, Hematology & Oncology, Medical Affairs is directly responsible for delivering the following:
• Contributing to RRD’s overall Medical Strategy in partnership with other RRD functions, gaining feedback on the Medical Strategy and ensuring alignment with the Medical Strategy throughout RRD.
• Coordinating with the cross-functional team to provide direct support and MSL support in RRD’s advocacy engagement activities.
• Managing the successful engagement with congresses/meetings, including ensuring that congresses/meetings are appropriately prioritized, congresses/meetings have the right resources deployed to provide the coverage needed, KOL engagements are planned and executed and senior leaders that attend the congresses/meetings have the opportunity to interact with KOLs appropriately.
• Contributing to RRD’s scientific data evolution plans by identifying gaps in RRD’s current data along with other MA functions and highlighting those gaps which are expected to be addressed by the current clinical development program.
