Associate Director, Medical Digital Strategy
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
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 professionals awareness adoption and utilization of Apelliss 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:
- Bachelors 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 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.
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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.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
