Senior Dir, Medical & Scientific Affairs: Specialty Testing

Danaher; Ashland (VA); Remote; USD 260,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a Danaher operating company, seeks a Senior Director of Medical & Scientific Affairs – Specialty Testing to set vision and lead daily operations across product development, clinical research, and regulatory activities on a global scale.

Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, you will collaborate with external partners and KOLs, shape pre-launch strategies, and drive health economics and reimbursement initiatives while advancing patient outcomes through hematology

Qualifications

• Doctorate level requirement with a minimum of 20 years of medical & clinical affairs experience.
• Board-certified hematologist.
• Excellent presentation, verbal, and written communication skills with the ability to communicate clinical and business issues to audiences of diverse backgrounds.
• Strong leadership skills, able to create a dynamic environment that fosters transparency, collaboration, and innovative thinking.
• Strong problem solving and negotiation skills; ability to influence and make recommendations at multiple levels of the company.
• Minimum of 5 years of project management skills to establish strategic goals and to prioritize, plan, delegate and evaluate deliverables – with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Has extensive clinical experience and a knowledge base beyond hematology that extends to complementary areas such as bone health and anemia and immunology.

Responsibilities

• Steer collaborative efforts between business leaders and research team to define bench and human clinical research priorities for product development, regulatory submissions, and marketing, based on intended clinical applications, business, and regulatory strategy.
• Demonstrated record of strong collaboration with internal stakeholders across matrix organizations, sharing information, active collective goal achievement, open risk / reward / resource discussions, and developing talent within and outside of the MedSci function.
• Establish and cultivate strategic academic partners suited for future research and innovation partnerships. Work with collaborators and product teams to solicit investigator-initiated research proposals that are aligned with Beckman research needs including specific disease states.
• Lead and own the global strategies for health economics, policy, and reimbursement (HEPR) for Beckman solutions.
• Build, sustain and serve as the leader for influential relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) to drive scientific exchange and shape the future of hematology/urinalysis (and potentially coagulation) technologies.
• Communicate and translate clinical/scientific insights and research concepts from KOLs into actionable guidance for product development teams.
• Strategically support the development and execution of pre-launch product initiatives, commercialization, and life cycle management of products through education, innovation, evidence generation and research – identifying technologies and assays that will fuel future growth.

Skills

Excellent presentation skills

Leadership

Problem solving

Negotiation

Project management

Medical/scientific affairs experience

Education

Doctorate degree (M.D./Ph.D./Pharm.D./DNP)

Board-certified hematologist

Job description

Beckman Coulter Diagnostics, a Danaher operating company, seeks a Senior Director of Medical & Scientific Affairs – Specialty Testing to set vision and lead daily operations across product development, clinical research, and regulatory activities on a global scale.

Reporting to the Chief Medical Officer, you will collaborate with external partners and KOLs, shape pre-launch strategies, and drive health economics and reimbursement initiatives while advancing patient outcomes through hematology