Regional Director

Summary

Join Ultragenyx and make a difference in the lives of rare disease patients! As a Regional Director, you will lead a team of experienced UltraCare Liaisons in promoting Dojolvi and preparing for the launch of novel gene therapies. You will be responsible for team leadership, performance management, and ensuring compliance. This role requires a minimum of a Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of team leadership experience in a growth business. The position offers a competitive salary, annual bonus, equity incentives, and a comprehensive benefits package including generous vacation time, volunteer days, long-term incentives, employee wellbeing benefits, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of 7+ years of experience in leading a team and driving growth businesses
• Experience building high performing teams, with a focus on culture and compliance, and launch excellence
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and drive results
• Ability to manage by influence and work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Excellent skills in the development of business plans, utilization of resources and budget to optimize Region potential
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Demonstrates high ethical and performance standards with all business contacts in order to maintain Ultragenyx exceptional reputation within the medical, pharmaceutical and Rare Disease community
• Approximately 60-70% travel is required including overnight travel as needed

Responsibilities

• Lead a diverse and experienced Regional Team including recruiting, hiring, and retaining of talented Commercial Field professionals
• Lead and coach a Regional Team to set, evaluate and exceed performance expectations
• Ensure that team is equipped to address new product launches, field market requests, customer service issues and challenges, with a sense of urgency and accountability
• Coach Regional Team to deliver education on disease and brands and engaging with and develop strong relationships with HCPs
• Advance care within the Rare Disease Community
• Understand healthcare trends in the Rare Disease Community and create pull through tactics and solutions to mitigate market access challenges
• Ability to analyze complex data to develop strategic and actionable business plans
• Ensure the field team works in a compliant manner consistent with the company’s policies and procedures while helping maintain a culture of compliance, integrity, and transparency
• Drive change through influence and innovation

Preferred Qualifications

Rare disease experience

Benefits

• Generous vacation time and public holidays observed by the company
• Volunteer days
• Long term incentive and Employee stock purchase plans or equivalent offerings
• Employee wellbeing benefits
• Fitness reimbursement
• Tuition sponsoring
• Professional development plans
• Annual bonus
• Equity incentives