Identify national, regional, and local Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) involved with the provision of cardiovascular care within institutional care centers and engage them in proactive and reactive scientific exchange
Contributes To / Leads Congress Planning activities
Serve as a scientific expert at key medical and scientific conferences, advisory boards, clinical investigator meetings, internal meetings, and patient advocacy group meetings
Maintain a high-level of scientific knowledge and understanding about disease state, underlying science, treatment guidelines, available treatment agents and options, as well as heart failure and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy therapies under development.
Maintain a superior understanding of current trends in clinical research, competitive developments, patient care, and their impact on Cytokinetics' medical strategies
Work with Medical Affairs and other internal colleagues on initiatives including medical information, publications, medical education, grants, speaker training, and other educational programs
Provide support to our clinical development programs by serving as a key point of contact for company-sponsored trial investigators, investigator-initiated research, and registries consistent with company objectives and regulations
Accurate and timely documentation of his/her activities within applicable company databases and platforms
In addition to the above, the Associate Director, Medical Scientist will:
Mentor and support Sr. Medical Scientist
Provide strategic input and execute region-specific plans to achieve KOL engagement goals and Medical Affairs departmental goals
Pursues projects independently with a high degree of quality and timely execution
Maintains a complete awareness of and understanding about current "real world" clinical practices, HEOR drivers, and emerging trends in treatments/medicine
Establish relationships with key executive leadership colleagues across Cytokinetics and connect external parties with appropriate leadership team members
Requirements
Advanced clinical or scientific degree (PharmD, PhD, or MD/DO, MS, PA, ARNP) preferred
Minimum of 5 years of CV MSL experience for Associate Director Medical Scientist. CV experience in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is preferable. Additionally, experience in heart failure a plus. Final position level will be determined based on overall experience
Must be analytical and articulate in both oral and written communications, possess excellent presentation skills, with a demonstrated ability to communicate well with external stakeholders and all internal levels of the organization
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Benefits
Health insuranceVision insurance
Additional Information
Cytokinetics is a specialty cardiovascular biopharmaceutical company, building on its over 25 years of pioneering scientific innovations in muscle biology, and advancing a pipeline of potential new medicines for patients suffering from diseases of cardiac muscle dysfunction.
At Cytokinetics, each team member plays an integral part in advancing our mission to improve the lives of patients. We are seeking tenacious, compassionate, and collaborative individuals who are driven to make a positive impact.
Reporting to the Sr. Director, Medical Sciences, the Associate Director, Medical Scientist, is a scientific professional who serves as a key field-based scientific resource for healthcare providers, patients, industry partners and internal colleagues. This role will come with high visibility in our company with critical cross-functional relationships across Medical Affairs, Clinical Development / Operations, and Commercial. This role will focus on key opinion leaders and other HCPs in the hypertrophic cardiomyopathy therapeutic area, but also support pipeline products in development.
Our passion is anchored in rigorous and diligent scientific and clinical approaches to the discovery and development of novel mechanism therapeutics. With gratitude for the commitments and convictions of our employees who are inspired by the courage of patients we aim to serve, we believe Cytokinetics will continue to be a pioneering, values-driven, sustainable, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company.
Open Geographies (Subject to change)
Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada (Las Vegas)
Cytokinetics · Denver, CO