The primary role of Director, Neurology European Medical Engagement Lead (MEL) is to engage in meaningful peer-to-peer scientific dialog with healthcare system Regional/International Thought Leaders (RTLs) within Europe.

The Director, Neurology European Medical Engagement Lead (MEL) conducts critical activities that support advancing science, educating on evolving clinical practices, transforming science into patient care, and facilitating the development of new research collaborations (including Collaborative and Investigator led Trials and Real-World Evidence).

The role collaborates with colleagues on capturing medical insights and acts as a therapeutic area resource to cross-functional partners. Engagement with TLs should be aligned with medical strategies, and the role should provide insight back to home office/global teams to inform regional and global strategy.

This role is field-based and regional in scope. It is anticipated that the employee will spend ~ 50 to 70% of the time in the field interacting with external stakeholders, including investigators and clinical thought leaders while supporting internal stakeholders and maintaining a high level of therapeutic expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

External Scientific Exchange Medical Strategy Advisory:

• Engaging in high-quality peer-to-peer scientific dialog with key European Thought Leaders (TLs) in Neurology focused on pre- and peri-launch period.
• Collaborates with European Thought Leaders to identify and generate insights on evolving care paradigms to inform medical strategy.
• Provides strategic input into education and communication materials, including conference symposia.
• Provides strategic input into regional access and reimbursement strategy.
• Serves as subject matter expert for internal education for key strategic team members of GPT and other governance bodies, commercialization cross-functional teams, WW medical team and Local Medical Teams.

Evidence facilitation:

• Facilitates scientific partnerships and research collaborations with Global and Local medical teams, and other WW functions such as the Global Development Team (GDD).
• Provides recommendations and insights to the clinical development team on study feasibilities and site selection within the therapeutic area based on knowledge of the field and through direct contacts with potential investigators, as agreed with home office medical and Global Development Operations (GDO).
• Provides recommendation and insights to build best evidence generation plan to address specific regional gaps (incl. access and reimbursement needs).
• Proactively discusses BMS major evidence readouts to investigators partnering with GDD. Reactively discuss major evidence readouts with other thought-leaders.
• Liaises with Neurology experts and centers to understand clinical levers and barriers to patient access in the context of clinical trials and upon commercial availability of the product.

Medical engagement:

• Effectively collaborates and communicates with European Thought Leaders to gain insights into the clinical landscape.
• Engages in scientific and clinical conversation to ensure the development of a product/disease area-focused medical plan that translates into effective launch and Life Cycle Maintenance (LCM) activities.
• Responsible for conducting evidence read-outs with the most prominent institutions, e.g., pivotal top-line data.
• Engages with medical societies, Patient Advocacy Groups, and guideline discussions as appropriate.
• Engage Neurology decision makers in selected Academic Medical Centers to help identify barriers and solutions to improve patient care and outcomes.

Required Qualifications Experience:

• 5+ years of relevant experience
• MD from top clinical practice and hospital-academic centers
• Proven record of developing high impact peer-to-peer relationships and influence with high impact Regional Thought Leaders.
• Strong Neurology experience required:
  • scientific or clinical area, patient treatment trends, clinical landscape
  • clinical trial design and process
  • national and regional (Europe) healthcare and access environment.
• Working in a scientific and/or clinical research environment.
• Understanding of European environment and needs.