Remote Senior Director, Payer & Health Systems Med Affairs

Merck; Helena (MT); Remote; USD 210,000 - 331,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Retirement benefits (401k)

Paid holidays

Vacation

Sick days

Job summary

Merck is seeking a Senior Director, Team Lead for US Medical Affairs in Payer & Health Systems to lead a field-based MA team and drive cross-functional execution of the medical affairs strategy within payer and IDN accounts.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic planning, and collaboration across HQ and field teams, with a focus on ethical engagement and patient-centered value. Travel and remote work are supported as part of a broad national scope.

Qualifications

• Advanced health-care/science doctoral degree (e.g., MD, PharmD, PhD).
• Three (3) years in customer-facing, field medical-affairs role or relevant experience.
• Deep knowledge of health-systems environment (e.g., payers, IDNs), as well as principles and processes of medical account management.
• Thorough knowledge of U.S. health-care delivery-system structure and function and population health.
• Embrace an AI-first mindset by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) tools and demonstrating a willingness to learn and implement new approaches, without requiring deep technical expertise.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills.
• Strong teamwork capabilities (including the ability to lead across a full product portfolio and multiple customer segments).
• Strong track record of effective development and management of multiple cross-functional leadership relationships.
• Strong personal integrity, collaborative mindset, business acumen, and customer focus.
• Thorough understanding of the U.S. regulatory entity, local regulatory agencies, and other ethical guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry to ensure compliance with all external and internal guidelines and standard operating procedures.
• Ability to organize, prioritize and work effectively in a constantly changing environment and to motivate a team to do the same.
• Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access) and ability to interface effectively with a variety of technical platforms for the collection, review and dissemination of medical information and team execution.

Responsibilities

• Recruits, onboards, trains, leads and manages a team of field-based health systems Medical Affairs (MA) professionals.
• Manages all aspects of the performance management process, including assessment of PHS MAD performance to objectives and competencies.
• Oversees portfolio product launches and in-line product medical affairs plans, including the execution of the plans by the team, ensuring appropriate, balanced support of the PHS portfolio prioritization and account segmentation via the PHS MA plan (MAP).
• Provides insights back to headquarters (HQ) from internal and external stakeholders across the entire health-systems continuum.
• Effectively communicates and coordinates with Commercial, Country MA, V&I Global Medical and Value Capabilities (V&I GMVC), and V&I Outcomes Research (V&I OR) leadership to oversee strategic account plans and associated medical account plans; ensures execution of medical activities in alignment with agreed plans.
• Collaborates with Commercial colleagues to ensure national and regional medical account coverage in the evolving health-systems landscape.
• Maintains a macro view of the healthcare landscape to appropriately develop and allocate our company MA resources to best address key opportunities and threats.
• Facilitates communication with senior HQ leadership to ensure successful execution with key national and regional accounts.
• Represents PHS team on internal cross-functional work streams.
• Ensures that all team members comply with the intent and application of regulations and company policies in the field environment.

Skills

Clinical Research

Healthcare Education

Health Care Systems

Medical Knowledge

Payer Reimbursement

People Management

Pharmaceutical Medical Affairs

Scientific Communications

Scientific Exchange

Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Doctoral degree

Job description

Merck is seeking a Senior Director, Team Lead for US Medical Affairs in Payer & Health Systems to lead a field-based MA team and drive cross-functional execution of the medical affairs strategy within payer and IDN accounts.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic planning, and collaboration across HQ and field teams, with a focus on ethical engagement and patient-centered value. Travel and remote work are supported as part of a broad national scope.