Regional Medical Lead (Remote) – Patient-Centric Health Systems

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc.; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 210,000 - 313,000; Full time

Job summary

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. is seeking a Regional Medical Lead to drive medical strategy across the region and build relationships with senior stakeholders. You will guide field teams and ensure activities align with patient-centered goals.

This role requires an advanced degree and 7–10 years of strategic leadership experience in healthcare, with strong collaboration skills to navigate a matrix environment and translate evidence into regional action.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Pharmacy, Medicine, or Biological Sciences (Pharm.D., M.D., D.O. or Ph.D.) is strongly preferred.
• 7–10 years of experience providing strategic leadership across therapeutic and cross-functional teams with demonstrable evidence of successfully partnering with customers and achieving shared goals and outcomes.
• Developing, communicating, and implementing strategy across complex healthcare environments with an ability to influence without authority and mobilize colleagues to action around shared goals.
• Must have an understanding of the interconnectivity of health systems, overall delivery of patient care and how to solution with the overall goal of improved patient outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to comprehend complex scientific, medical, and business issues and analytical skills to identify key barriers or success factors.
• Ongoing investment in developing self and others to enable others to achieve their potential, deliver ambitious goals or achieve excellence.
• Strong ability to lead, influence, and collaborate in a matrixed environment regardless of reporting structure and operating under ambiguity without a set playbook.

Responsibilities

• As part of the regional leadership team contributes to the region strategic business plan that addresses regional, local, and customer challenges, issues, and opportunities, to bring about improved patient care and outcomes.
• In partnership with the Senior Business Director, establish and manage senior stakeholder and C-suite relationships across the region to better understand their needs and identify insights and opportunities for medical collaboration.
• Develop a deep understanding of the regional ecosystems, including health systems, centers of excellence, key influencers, decision makers, and payers.
• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of the regional ecosystems to ensure alignment with Otsuka’s patient-centric strategy and priorities, including provision and delivery of optimal patient care.
• Primary medical point of contact for top decision makers and influencers in their region to co-create, prioritize, plan, and implement mutually beneficial initiatives that are aligned with Otsuka’s business priorities.
• Understand the educational needs of the region from a customer perspective, and ensure resources are deployed to meet these needs from a product and disease state approach.
• Provide field leadership and managerial oversight to ensure MSLs are focusing on key institutions, influencers and decision makers aligned to business priorities. RML, through the MSLs, maintains and engages their own list of customers that are most influential in the region.
• Identify regional evidence generation needs that align to local priorities in collaboration with internal stakeholders.

Skills

Advanced leadership

Strategy development

Cross-functional collaboration

Healthcare systems knowledge

Analytical thinking

Staff development

Matrix leadership

Education

Pharm.D./M.D./D.O./Ph.D.

Job description

Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. is seeking a Regional Medical Lead to drive medical strategy across the region and build relationships with senior stakeholders. You will guide field teams and ensure activities align with patient-centered goals.

This role requires an advanced degree and 7–10 years of strategic leadership experience in healthcare, with strong collaboration skills to navigate a matrix environment and translate evidence into regional action.