Acadia Pharmaceuticals is hiring a
Patient Advocacy Industry Relations Liaison

Summary

Join Acadia Pharmaceuticals as a Corporate Advocacy Interface and lead the company's advocacy efforts with regional patient advocacy groups and medical societies, building strategic relationships and partnerships.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, healthcare, business administration or related field
• Targeting 7 years of progressively responsible biopharmaceutical sales, account management, medical affairs, and/or marketing experience, or related experiences with 3 years of experience with key opinion leader relationship management
• An equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered

Responsibilities

• Represents the company and acts as its liaison with regional industry associations and regional patient advocacy groups; attends trade and professional meetings important to the company’s success
• Supports the execution of sponsorships and programs to optimize patient outcomes in all phases of the product life cycle
• Activate initiatives that impact state level public policies to remove barriers to accessing care
• Work with counter parts within various industry partners for coordination to ensure open communications and alignment on goals, strategies and execution
• Identifies and cultivates relationships with key regional and local influencers and organizations that are essential to achieving business objectives
• Demonstrates clinically accurate product and disease state knowledge during interactions with internal and external customers
• Contributes to the execution of strategic plans for assigned patient advocacy and medical societies and overseas the successful implementation that is aligned with company business strategy, plans, annual budgets and business reviews
• Manages regional budgets and forecasting for patient advocacy and sponsorship activities
• Champion the patient and medical professional voice and experience with key internal stakeholders
• Oversees company sponsored patient advocacy events and forums to appropriately engage Acadia employees to understand the special needs of patient groups
• Responsibility for advocacy and industry relationships for current and future therapeutic areas, predominately focused on Rare Disease, Rett Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s organizations
• Monitors competitive activity and identifies industry trends
• Interfaces with medical affairs to ensure coordination and alignment with KOL, Ad board and medical education activities
• Ensure cross functional collaboration with field-based medical, brand, market access, market development team and other key stakeholders to optimally manage relationships to ensure alignment and effective execution of patient advocacy and medical society strategy
• Serves as a representative of the organization to both internal and external regional groups and ensures information communicated is accurate and up to date regarding organizational activities and industry trends
• Stays current of new developments and ideas in the field of advocacy relations and incorporates such developments, ideas and strategies into the development and execution of programs
• Ensures department’s adherence to company policies and quality system requirements, as well as other legal and regulatory directives
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Competitive base, bonus, new hire and ongoing equity packages
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) Plan with a fully vested company match 1:1 up to 5%
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan with a 2-year purchase price lock-in
• 15+ vacation days
• 14 paid holidays plus one floating holiday of your choice, including office closure between December 24th and January 1st
• 10 days of paid sick time
• Paid parental leave
• Tuition assistance