Associate Director, Medical Digital Strategy

Apellis Pharmaceuticals; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company is seeking an Associate Director, Medical Digital Strategy. This role involves leading the digital strategy for Medical Affairs, ensuring the integration of various systems to enhance operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in technology initiatives within the pharmaceutical sector and be proficient with tools such as Veeva and Salesforce. This position offers the opportunity to drive innovation in patient engagement and improve healthcare professional utilization of digital initiatives.

Benefits

401(k) plan with company match

Flexible time off

Paid family leave

Disability and life insurance

Qualifications

• 8 years experience in pharmaceutical/biotech sector leading technology initiatives.
• Experience with Medical Affairs technologies like Veeva and Salesforce.
• Ability to influence without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead implementation of the Medical Affairs digital strategy.
• Oversee content management for Apellis MedicalHub websites.
• Identify performance gaps within Medical Affairs and recommend tools.

Skills

Ability to prioritize workload

Strong quantitative skills

Change management

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA preferred

Tools

Veeva

Salesforce

WordPress

Job description

Associate Director, Medical Digital Strategy

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Position Summary

The Associate Director, Medical Digital Strategy will lead implementation and refinement of the Medical Affairs (MA) digital strategy. The role encompasses accountability and responsibility for many MA information systems, ensuring all configurations align with medical affairs processes, ensuring that outputs of each system lead to meaningful actions, and providing continuous feedback to MA Leadership Team members in the form of automated data and information flows. This lead is responsible for driving all phases of digital strategy including design, platform selection, requirements, configuration, implementation, and optimization. As a service to all medical affairs functions, this role will be responsible for creating digital solutions to solve challenges, and reports to the Senior Director, Medical Excellence

Position Summary

The Associate Director, Medical Digital Strategy will lead implementation and refinement of the Medical Affairs (MA) digital strategy. The role encompasses accountability and responsibility for many MA information systems, ensuring all configurations align with medical affairs processes, ensuring that outputs of each system lead to meaningful actions, and providing continuous feedback to MA Leadership Team members in the form of automated data and information flows. This lead is responsible for driving all phases of digital strategy including design, platform selection, requirements, configuration, implementation, and optimization. As a service to all medical affairs functions, this role will be responsible for creating digital solutions to solve challenges, and reports to the Senior Director, Medical Excellence

Key Responsibilities Include

• Responsible for development and execution of the MA digital strategy and technology platform presence
• Oversee and maintain Apellis MedicalHub websites globally including content management, SEO and analytics
• Manage Field Medical Content Management system globally including training, access and metrics
• Identify performance or efficiency gaps within MA, and tools and processes to fill
• Track medical affairs industry best practices and tools in operations and technology, and make recommendations to incorporate into digital strategy
• Partner with MA Operations and IT in championing Medical Affairs digital strategy and dashboards. Contribute to an MA culture of continuous process improvement based on evidence and data
• Identify and operationalize innovative ways to drive healthcare professional’s awareness, adoption, and utilization of Apellis’s digital initiatives, including use of AI
• Represent MA with current and new technology vendors, eg platforms enabling CRM, KOL profiling, materials review, insights collection and analytics
• Work with International and US MA teams to identify and leverage the valuable insights gained from digital analytics
• Partner with Medical Affairs Leadership as well as Corporate Communications, Regulatory, Compliance and Legal to develop a consistent, value-added, digital customer experience, including omnichannel initiatives
• Oversee systems, processes and reporting for KOL data including KOL profiling, social listening monitoring, Digital Opinion Leaders, KOL Knowledge and Behavior Surveys
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required ; MBA preferred
• 8 years experience in pharmaceutical/biotech sector leading technology initiatives within a scientific or commercial function; and/or data management and analytics
• Experience with common technologies used by Medical Affairs teams such as Veeva, Envision, Symmertryk, Salesforce, Wordpress
  
  

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Ability to prioritize workload and accurately forecast timeframes for projected completion
• Effectively communicates with team members and stakeholders regarding medical affairs operational activities
• Asks appropriate questions to ensure that expected outcomes are achieved
• Ability to influence without direct authority
• Strong quantitative skills and ability to translate numbers into meaningful findings
• Experience in and/or documented ability to quickly learn and lead development of technology platforms specific to medical affairs, e.g., insight collection and analysis, CRM, medical information inquiry management, KOL profiling and mapping
• Process design and aligning technology to fulfill process requirements
• Aligning leaders on process and system requirements
• Change management and technology support
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Must be well organized and able to multi-task in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment
  
  

Travel Requirements

• Travel may be up to 10%
  
  

Benefits And Perks

Apellis offers a comprehensive benefits package, including a 401(k) plan with company match, inclusive family building benefits, flexible time off, summer and winter shutdowns, paid family leave, disability and life insurance, and more! Visit https://apellis.com/careers/benefits/ 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.

For more information, please visit http://apellis.com or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn

EEO Statement

Apellis is an equal opportunity employer and complies with all applicable federal, state and local fair employment practices laws. Apellis strictly prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex (including pregnancy), gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, genetic information, marital status, AIDS/HIV status, smoker/nonsmoker, and occupational pneumoconiosis or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

For San Francisco postings: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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