Regional Medical Director

**Overall description of the role**:
The Regional Medical Director (RMD) is a remote based role focused on discovering, developing, and maintaining peer-to-peer relationships with key medical and scientific experts while also contributing to and executing the overall global strategy.

This role will initially support the company pipeline programs. In a targeted approach, this individual will collaborate with physicians and other medical / scientific experts to provide appropriate disease state education and treatment information as requested. RMDs will also understand, collect, and bring insights from the external community to Egetis to help better refine our plans. The RMD may also help support trial enrollment, provide program, and protocol training and ensure that health care professionals have the most up to date information as our clinical development programs mature.

In this role you will have frequent travel - up to 75% at times within the assigned territory, as well as to travel to medical meetings, team meetings, company and other group meetings. Some events or functions will require evening, weekend and/or international travel.

This role reports to our Global Head Medical Affairs, and has a dotted line to our General Manager Germany, Switzerland, Austria & Central Europe.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Develop and maintain peer-to-peer collaborations and relationships with key medical & scientific experts
- Support clinical development initiatives including site identification, trial recruitment, registry, and presentation of final approved data
- Support patient focused initiatives such as early access programs as needed and appropriate.
- Support appropriate testing related initiatives to optimize the patient journey from diagnosis to treatment
- Collaborate internally at Egetis and externally with key stakeholders as needed on medical affairs initiatives including publications, advisory boards, medical education opportunities, scientific communications, training, and speaker assistance
- Serve as scientific expert peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders. Represent Egetis at appropriate meetings and conferences. Present key information and data as needed to stakeholders including healthcare professionals, scientific communities, patient advocacy groups, payers, and policymakers.
- Support the medical and scientific community with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information as requested
- Return external key insights to Egetis to best inform the medical strategy for the therapeutic area
- Train internal stakeholders on key scientific and medical topics in relevant therapeutic area as requested
- Develop an understanding of the regional landscape including specialties involved in care of patients, current and future treatment approaches, and key unmet medical needs
- Maintain effective and appropriate communication among internal and external stakeholders while maintaining full compliance with relevant laws, codes, policies, and requirements
- Generate regional tactical plans to provide needs based, value-added support of the medical and scientific community in-line with company goals, timelines, and budget
- Newly develop and use existing systems to strategically map, identify, profile, and prioritize thought leaders in line with the medical plan and goals
- Appropriately interact with the Patient Advocacy organizations within the region as requested in close collaboration with the to be hired global patient advocacy director
- Maintain accurate compliant reporting and documentation of required RMD activities

**Education, Experience and Knowledge**:

- Postgraduate degree required (MD, PhD in life sciences, or PharmD are preferred)
- At least 5 years of experience in Medical Affairs and/or as Medical Science Liaison within (part of) the region
- Demonstrated track record of working at a high level especially within a field-based territory is required
- Robust and current medical affairs or clinical development experience supporting drugs to treat rare diseases is a highly desired
- Prior launch experience highly preferred
- Experience in endocrinology, neurology or genetics is a strong plus
- Experience in a start-up environment highly preferred
- You understand legal / compliance considerations and demonstrate a history of working compliantly within a field-based role, within the medical organization, as well as across a commercial organization
- You speak German and English fluently.

**Competencies**:

- Customer Focus - Puts the patient and key stakeholders at the center of all we do
- Strategic Mindset - Energetically embraces responsibilities, demonstrates ability to achieve goals
- Communicates Effectively - Excellent verbal and written communication skills with fluency in at least 1 of the major languages of the region, as well as English is required, knowledge of more than 1 regional language is a plus
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