VP, US Medical Affairs
Key Responsibilities Include:
- Key member of Apellis’ Global Medical Affairs leadership team and North America leadership team
- Provide leadership and oversight of the US Medical Affairs home office based and field teams
- Ensure all US medical plans are developed in alignment with global medical strategy
- Collaborate cross-functionally with commercial, medical, clinical, market access, legal, compliance, and regulatory colleagues to foster a culture of collaboration and innovation
- Represent Apellis Medical Affairs in scientific presentations, international conferences, and industry groups, serve as lead spokesperson with KOLs and various professional organizations as needed and appropriate
- Oversee the compliance of all US Medical Affairs activities with Apellis’ policies and procedures, ensuring appropriate systems and SOPs/processes are put into place
- Support pre- & post-launch and life cycle management activities.
- Lead, engage, coach and develop the US Medical Team to foster high performance and strong collaboration amongst team members
- Up to 40% domestic and/or international travel
- Other duties and responsibilities as required
Education, Registration & Certification:
- Must have a PhD, Pharm D or MD level degree or equivalent
Experience:
- 12-15+ years of experience in a Medical Affairs organization
- Experience in ophthalmology, hematology, or nephrology strongly preferred
- Significant experience across drug life cycle, particularly in phase 3 development and post-marketing setting
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities:
- Proven ability to lead in a fast-paced environment, enabling the team to prioritize and manage multiple competing tasks and demands while ensuring overall quality and integrity
- Enables creative problem solving, encourages unique solutions, and solves difficult problems with effective solutions
- Creates an environment that enables open, available, and transparent communication
- Strong interpersonal skill set necessary to influence and maintain internal effective and external collaborator relationships
- Facilitates productive dialogue that empowers others to share input/recommendations/perspective, while driving the group to make a decision or take a position.
- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, including ability to effectively articulate highly technical/complex concepts to audiences with differing levels of experience
- Demonstrated ability to effectively lead, influence, and manage within a matrixed organization
- Exceptional leadership skills and ability to inspire, motivate and mentor teams
- Ability to partner with cross functional leadership
- Ability to effect positive organizational change at the company and team levels
Benefits and Perks:
Apellis offers a great benefit package which includes: health insurance with full premium coverage, 401K with company match, paid time off (PTO), long- term disability insurance, life insurance and more! Visit https://apellis.com/careers/ to learn more.
Company Background:
Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biopharmaceutical company that combines courageous science and compassion to develop life-changing therapies for some of the most challenging diseases patients face. We ushered in the first new class of complement medicine in 15 years and now have two approved medicines targeting C3. These include the first and only therapy for geographic atrophy, a leading cause of blindness around the world. With nearly a dozen clinical and pre-clinical programs underway, we believe we have only begun to unlock the potential of targeting C3 across many serious diseases.