Senior Director, US Medical Director – Multiple Myeloma

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Job Description

Reports to: Vice President US Medical Affairs (or equivalent)
Direct Reports:

• Director Medical Strategy Multiple Myeloma

• Additional diseasearea or program roles as the portfolio expands

Role Purpose

The Senior Director US Medical Director Multiple Myeloma (MM) serves as the US medical leader for the Multiple Myeloma franchise accountable for endtoend medical strategy scientific leadership and evidence execution across the lifecycle of the MM portfolio.

This role sets the US medical vision for MM translates global scientific strategy into USspecific medical priorities and ensures medical affairs is a credible highimpact partner to clinical development commercial market access and external stakeholders.

The Senior Director is also a people leader building a highperforming MM medical team including medical strategy and accessenabling functions (e.g. OOS/EAP) while preparing the organization for potential future launches and label expansion.

Position will be filled in Santa Monica CA Foster City CA or Parsippany NJ.

Key Responsibilities

Franchise Medical Leadership

• Own and lead the US Medical Affairs strategy for Multiple Myeloma ensuring alignment with portfolio vision partnering with global team for lifecycle planning and evolving treatment paradigms.

• Serve as the primary US medical voice for MM across internal governance forums and senior leadership discussions.

• Provide medical leadership across launch readiness postlaunch optimization and indication expansion.

Scientific & Evidence Strategy

• Partner with the global teams (Global Strategy & Evidence Generation) to create an integrated evidence generation strategy for MM including ISR RWE HEOR publications and congress planning.

• Ensure scientific narratives are medically rigorous clinically relevant and aligned to unmet patient and HCP needs.

• Guide interpretation of emerging data and competitive intelligence to inform proactive medical strategy adjustments.

CrossFunctional Partnership

• Act as a senior medical partner to Commercial Market Access Clinical Development Regulatory and Global Medical Affairs.

• Ensure strong medical input into brand strategy segmentation and external engagement strategy while maintaining clear nonpromotional boundaries.

• Represent US Medical Affairs in global forums ensuring US insights are incorporated into global strategy

• Partner with internal medical affairs headquarter team & field medical leadership & team

Access OOS & EAP Oversight

• Provide strategic oversight and governance for OutofSpecification (OOS) and Expanded Access Program (EAP) medical activities within MM.

• Ensure ethical compliant and patientfocused execution of access programs aligned with company policies and regulatory expectations.

People & Organizational Leadership

• Build lead and develop a highperforming MM medical team including direct management of the Director Medical Strategy and OOS/EAP Manager.

• Set clear priorities decision rights and success metrics across the MM medical organization.

• Actively coach and mentor leaders to grow strategic capability medical judgment and enterprise mindset.

Qualifications

• MD PharmD PhD or equivalent advanced scientific/clinical degree

• 12 years of experience in Medical Affairs within biopharma including hematology/oncology

• Demonstrated experience leading franchiselevel medical strategy

• Proven people leadership experience

Preferred

• Multiple Myeloma expertise

• Experience supporting cell therapy or complex specialty launches

• Experience navigating access programs managed access or EAP/OOS processes

Leadership Competencies

• Enterprise medical leadership

• Ability to work in a matrix organization / highly adaptable mindset

• Strategic thinking and decisionmaking

• Strong communication & presentation skills

• Scientific credibility and influence

• Talent development and culture building

• Executive presence and crossfunctional impact

People Leader Accountabilities:

• Create Inclusion -knowingthe business value of diverse teams modeling inclusion and embedding the value of diversity in the way they manage their teams.

• Develop Talent - understand the skills experience aspirations and potential of their employees and coach them on current performance and future potential. They ensure employeesare receivingthe feedback and insight needed to growdevelopand realize their purpose.

• Empower Teams - connect the team to the organization by aligning goals purpose and organizationalobjectives and holding them to account. They provide the support needed to remove barriers and connect their team to the broader ecosystem.

The salary range for this position is:

Kite considers a variety of factors when determining base compensation including experience qualifications and geographic location. These considerations mean actual compensation will vary. This position may also be eligible for a discretionary annual bonus discretionary stock-based long-term incentives (eligibility may vary based on role) paid time off and a benefits package. Benefits include company-sponsored medical dental vision and life insurance plans*.

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Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune systems ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica CA. For more information on Kite please visit . Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at jobs in the United States:

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