Associate Director, Medical Affairs (26)

Associate Director, Medical Affairs

The Associate Director of Medical Affairs will provide strategic and scientific expertise to support the company's portfolio and pipeline, while playing a key role in executing Medical Affairs strategy and tactics.This individual will act as the VP ofMedical Affairs' deputy and serve as a subject-matter expert for assigned products, while maintaining expertise across the company's entire portfolio.They will be responsible for developing and executing medical plans, maintaining day-to-day Medical Affairs operational excellence, supporting evidence generation, and ensuring the alignment of medical strategies with clinical and corporate objectives.

The role requires a balance of scientific knowledge, organization, strategic thinking, and the ability to build strong relationships both internally and externally.

Medical Strategy and Operations

• Work with medical leadership to develop and execute medical strategies to support Harrow's product portfolio/disease areas of interest, maintaining alignment with corporate objectives.
• Develop and maintain therapeutic area expertise across the Harrow ophthalmic portfolio sufficient to support any product on a cross-cover basis.
• Contribute medical and competitive insight into brand and lifecycle planning.
• Coordinate cross-functional medical projects and deliverables, managing competing priorities across a broad portfolio.
• Support and help maintain departmental processes, standards, and documentation.

Evidence Generation & Data Dissemination

• Develop high-quality analysis of Investigator Initiated Study grant requests to ensure alignment with strategies, acceptable risk/benefit ratios, impact on current and future scientific landscape, and fair market budget assessments.
• Partner with Medical Communications and relevant internal and external colleagues to oversee dissemination of scientific data through publications, congress presentations, advisory boards, and symposia.
• Support evidence-generation and key-brand scientific initiatives, helping move strategic projects from concept to execution.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a reviewer in Medical/Regulatory/Legal committees for all assigned materials to ensure scientific accuracy, alignment with strategic messaging, and that materials are fair and balanced.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with KOLs, investigators, medical societies, centers of excellence, and other external experts in partnership with Field Medical.
• Represent the company at scientific congresses, advisory boards, and medical education events in partnership with Field Medical.
• Provide scientific and medical expertise to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring timely and accurate information exchange.
• Maintain compliance with all legal, regulatory, and ethical standards.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Terminal Degree MD/DO/OD/PhD/PharmD preferred.
• Extensive ophthalmic experience required.
• A minimum of 3 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in an internal strategic Medical Affairs or internal Marketing role required.
• Extensive experience working on promotional and internal review teams (PRC/MRL) required.
• Experience working with broad product portfolios is highly preferred.
• Experience in scientific presentations and medical writing is preferred.
• Broad knowledge of product development, regulatory requirements, payer landscape, and life cycle management preferred.
• Proven ability and experience to develop and foster peer-to-peer, credible relationships with Medical Experts/decision makers.
• Working knowledge of the Healthcare System and of the research procedures as well as the ICH guidelines, GCP, and other ethical guidelines.
• Strong analytical skills, ability to interpret scientific/clinical literature.
• Proficient with MS Office applications.
• Fluency in reading, writing, understanding, and communicating in English is required.

Position Type

• Remote – Must live in United States.

Travel

• Up to 30%
• Some activities may call for early or late meetings and attendance at scientific meetings on holidays and weekends.