Senior Vice President, Global Medical Affairs

Summary

Join Ultragenyx, a biopharmaceutical company focused on rare disease medicine, as their Senior Vice President, Global Medical Affairs. This leadership role involves setting global medical affairs strategies, managing initiatives supporting development and commercial programs, and overseeing post-approval activities. You will build key opinion leader partnerships and manage a global medical affairs team. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in global drug development, investigator research, and patient community relationships. The position offers a remote work model with occasional travel and a competitive salary and benefits package. Ultragenyx is committed to creating a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Requirements

• M.D. required with minimum 15+ years in biotech/pharma industry in Clinical Drug Development and/or Corporate Medical Affairs
• Minimum 12+ years of managing and leading post commercial clinical and medical teams
• Product pre-launch/successful launch experience required
• Demonstrated knowledge of FDA requirements, industry compliance, ISS design and strategies, commercial and publication strategy and medical information processes
• Working knowledge of current legal and promotional regulatory requirements, demonstrated appreciation of the global compliance landscape
• Ability to interact and communication with a high degree of professionalism and scientific credibility to the Thought Leader community
• Ability to establish strong working relationships with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure achievement of corporate objectives
• Possess strong and dynamic leadership skills. Successful and superior influencing skills across all levels of the organization and external collaborators

Responsibilities

• Lead Medical Affairs strategic input and direction for marketed products globally; provide critical strategic and day-to-day management support in the area of Medical Affairs management
• Provide strategic input into the development plans for drugs to support Commercial needs when marketed
• Drive creation and oversee execution of the following global strategic plans: Publication Plan, KOL/Advisory Board Plan, Investigator-Initiated Research Plan, and Continuing Medical Education and Grant Plan to optimize the product profile to build product awareness and gain strategic insights for marketing and development strategy
• Grow and manage a high-functioning Medical Affairs organization with a focus on staff development and appropriate succession planning. Ensure that company practices are compliant with relevant drug regulations
• Provide Medical Affairs leadership to the MSL and PDL teams and overall accountability for the development and management of relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs)
• Serve as a senior representative to KOLs, working in collaboration with Senior R&D colleagues similarly involved providing strong medical and scientific presence
• Provide strategic leadership and collaboration for Disease strategy plans, abstracts, posters, slides, manuscripts, educational materials, Investigator-Initiated study protocols, Advisory board meeting objectives, Medical information letters, Commercial Brand plans, scientific educational grant requests and patient advocacy grant requests
• Serve as a senior representative of Medical Affairs to interact with key internal stakeholders: Commercial, Business Development, Market Access, Clinical Operations, Clinical Sciences, Regulatory, and Program and Portfolio Leadership
• Provide medical leadership and support to the Commercial Team to assist in the development and execution of compliant commercial activities; provide Medical Affairs strategic input for the elaboration of the brand plan(s); ensure execution of the Medical Affairs Strategy in line with the Brand Strategy and the execution of compliant Commercial activities
• Utilizes medical/scientific, technical, and managerial experience to support research programs, clinical development programs and licensed product maintenance, including developing the strategy for advisory Board and KOL meetings

Preferred Qualifications

Previous experience managing a global medical affairs function and/or demonstrated success implementing Medical Affairs program(s) at a biotech/small pharma strongly preferred

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