Senior Director, Medical Affairs - Rare Disease Program Lead

Full Time On-Site/Hybrid Medical Affairs Director Medical Affairs Apply for this Job The Senior Director, Medical Affairs Rare Disease Program Lead, is a key member of the Global Medical Affairs strategy team who will lead the global medical director and scientific communication teams for the rare disease programs across hematology and nephrology. This individual will work closely with medical affairs, clinical operations, clinical development, commercial, legal, regulatory, quality, research, and corporate communications to oversee the Medical Affairs rare disease strategy and execution on rare disease programs. Additionally, the Senior Director, Medical Affairs Rare Disease Program Lead, will be responsible for all Medical Affairs aspects of the alliance with the partner company. This includes representation and leadership in the Joint Alliance Committee, ensuring productive, collaborative relationships across the organizations, and internal cross functional alignment to have one Apellis voice in the various alliance forums. The successful candidate will provide effective leadership, strategic insight, and ensure execution of key initiatives while enabling the highest degree of cross functional and cross alliance collaboration to ensure successful preparation and launch of the rare disease programs.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead Global Medical Affairs (GMA) Rare Disease Programs across hematology and nephrology
• Oversee development and implementation of GMA strategy for pegcetacoplan across hematology and nephrology
• Ensure appropriate representation of late-stage development programs at the Rare Disease Program Team, with close coordination and strong communication among the respective therapeutic area medical directors
• Coordinate with 3M partners to have aligned strategic point of view to input at the Therapeutic Area Leadership Team (TALT)
• Lead all aspects of the Medical Affairs relationship with the partner company including representing Apellis Medical Affairs at the Joint Alliance Committee, fostering a collaborative partnership
• Collaborate with rare disease leads across Clinical Development, Regulatory, Commercial, Clinical Development Operations and other functions as needed to ensure appropriate strategic alignment, prioritization, and execution of rare disease pegcetacoplan strategy and plans
• Responsible for line management, professional development, and mentorship of direct report(s) including providing feedback on employee performance and goal setting
• Responsible for driving strategic initiatives for employee development, process, and business improvements
• Fosters and reinforces a culture that aligns with the Apellis Values
• 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 rare disease required; experience in hematology or nephrology preferred
• Significant experience across drug life cycle, particularly in phase 3 development and post-marketing setting
• Alliance management experience strongly preferred

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

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.