Senior Director, Global Medical Affairs – Pulmonary Hypertension

Role Overview

• Drives execution of the annual V&I plan with medical affairs colleagues from key countries and regions including U.S.
• Acts as an empowered partner, making informed decisions with a strategic and agile mindset.
• Serves as the SME and connector across assigned therapeutic areas, translating global scientific platforms into actionable Medical Value Narratives (MVNs).
• Actively engages with country-level stakeholders—including medical advisors, payers, and scientific leaders—to ensure strategic alignment and support local data generation, congress planning, and advisory boards.
• Serves as the medical representative within Product Development sub-teams (including Clinical, V&I, Commercial, Publications, and Label), leveraging the V&I GMSA vision to drive strategic planning, outcome delivery, and tactical execution.
• Communicates pertinent information to stakeholders to inform and influence country and regional planning.
• Acts as the subject-matter expert, collaborating closely with V&I Outcomes Research, Policy, Commercial, and Market Access teams to identify and address opportunities and barriers in key countries.
• Serves as a strategic partner for Big Country Markets (U.S., China, Japan) with no RDMA role.
• Plays a pivotal role in bridging global strategy with local execution.
• Proactively collaborates with the US DMA and equivalent roles in China and Japan.
• Consolidates actionable medical insights from countries and regions.
• Engages with a network of international scientific leaders and other key stakeholders.
• Monitors external changing environment in partnership with the competitive intelligence (CI) team.
• Organizes global expert-input events (advisory boards and expert-input forums).
• Collaborates with Global Human Health (commercial) executive directors to inform of the GMSA portion of V&I plans to ensure alignment.
• Organizes global symposia and medical educational meetings.
• Supports key countries with the development of local data-generation study concepts and protocols when requested.
• Reviews Investigator-Initiated Study proposals from key countries (ex-U.S.) prior to headquarters submission.
• Manages programs (patient support, educational or risk management) to support appropriate and safe utilization of medicines.
• Demonstrates and champions our company’s Ways of Working, emphasizing innovation and focusing on the impact to the patient.
• Manages assigned budget with strong financial stewardship, ensuring delivery within a 3% variance.

Requirements

• Minimum M.D., Ph.D. or Pharm.D. (M.D. preferred) and recognized medical expertise in Pulmonary Hypertension space.
• Minimum 5 years experience in pulmonary hypertension.
• Experience in country/region or global medical affairs or clinical development.
• Strong prioritization and decision-making skills.
• Strategic thinking skills and broad understanding of therapeutic area, scientific knowledge.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with partners across divisions in a matrix environment.
• Excellent interpersonal, analytical, and communication skills (written and oral) in addition to results-oriented project management skills.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family)
• retirement benefits, including 401(k)
• paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days
• eligibility for annual bonus and long-term incentive, if applicable