Sr. Medical Director, Medical Affairs Part Time

Bedford, Bedfordshire
Lantheus Holdings, Inc

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices in New Jersey, Canada, and Sweden. For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and have helped physicians enhance patient care with our broad product portfolio.

Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease. Lantheus is in search of an innovative, transformative, high-energy, experienced leader for our Medical Affairs department.

At Lantheus. our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success. Every employee is crucial to our success, we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands. We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skills sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team.

The Senior Medical Director of Medical Affairs is responsible for the development of medical strategy, planning & execution of assigned medical affairs activities at Lantheus Medical Imaging. They will provide scientific and/or medical leadership and serving as a key scientific/ medical resource across the company portfolio of products. They will be involved in data gap analysis and strategic planning for new data generation, including company sponsored studies, collaboration projects and investigator-initiated studies (IIS), potentially serving as study director and medical monitor. Other responsibilities may include stakeholder engagement and education, data analyses, publication and scientific communications, and other Medical Affairs functions supporting the PYLARIFY, AZEDRA and Definity brands. Day to day activities may include the following:

• Defines strategy, sets annual goals and ensures compliant execution of medical affairs activities
• Maintains deep scientific and medical knowledge of relevant therapeutic/disease areas as well as an understanding of patient and physician interactions and clinical decision making and impact
• Is responsible for developing and overseeing medical affairs activities consisting of data generation, data analysis and interpretation. Plays a key role in developing evidence generation strategy, support and execution of IST and P4 studies, including interventional and observational research
• Provides strategic direction and scientific and medical support for publications and presentations as needed, working closely with the Publication Manager
• Leads / participates in the evaluation of investigator-initiated study applications with the Field Medical Science Liasons
• Provides substantial input and reviews development of Medical Information Letters; FAQs and SRLs
• Participates in scientific engagement with external communities in order to educate and advance scientific and medical understanding of relevant disease areas, including the management of disease, standards of patient care
• Develops medical content for congresses, symposia and advisory boards and leads such activities when needed
• Presents scientific/ medical materials to diverse audiences (e.g. physicians, nuclear med technicians and other key stakeholders) in meeting, advisory and/or consulting settings
• Provides scientific and medical input and ensures integrity of scientific content for promotional activities and sales training.
• Supports field medical activities
• Assesses medical education needs and develops internal and external educational activities
• Works with finance, multiple functions with Medical Affairs and Project Manager to develop and forecast project budgets for medical affairs activities
• Provides medical training for internal staff on LMI and competitive products and disease related aspects

Minimum Skills, Experience and Education

• Physician (M.D. or M.D./Ph.D.) preferable with knowledge and experience in Urology, Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology or Nuclear medicine
• Background in Med Affairs with LCM experience
• Minimum of 3-5 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or medical affairs is required
• Must be able to demonstrate excellent medical communication skills
• Must be able to clearly demonstrate a thorough understanding of the healthcare environment including all external stakeholders
• Must be able to demonstrate understanding of medical affairs accountabilities for evidence generation, external engagement and internal advice
• Must demonstrate therapeutic area expertise and appropriate medical and/or clinical experience.
• Outstanding work ethic and integrity
• Ability to work effectively in a fast paced, rapidly changing environment
• Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment.
• Ability to work independently and engage in collaborative decision making, complete tasks in a timely fashion, and function in a fast-paced and rapidly expanding environment

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)