Government Affairs Representative jobs in Danbury, CT

As an employee of Boehringer Ingelheim, you will actively contribute to the discovery, development, and delivery of our products to our patients and customers. Our global presence provides opportunity for all employees to collaborate internationally, offering visibility and opportunity to directly contribute to the companies' success. We realize that our strength and competitive advantage lie with our people. We support our employees in several ways to foster a healthy working environment, meaningful work, diversity and inclusion, mobility, networking, and work-life balance. Our competitive compensation and benefit programs reflect Boehringer Ingelheim's high regard for our employees.

The Executive Director Medical Affairs Excellence is a strategic, forward-thinking role to ensure that Medical Affairs (MA) teams have the necessary capabilities, technology, skills, knowledge, systems, and resources to deliver high-quality engagements and ensure success of asset development and commercialization today and into the future. This leader will lead the build and roll out of cutting-edge MA capabilities (with focus on Stakeholder Engagement, Medical Communications, Insights, Data & Systems), drive excellence across the Global and Regions MA community, and foster a mindset shift towards world-class MA leadership, accountability for asset outcomes and cross-functional collaboration. The success of global medical affairs (GMA), MA, and our asset programs is highly dependent on this role through strategic leadership and partnership with TAs, corporate functions (Healthcare Affairs/Patient Engagement, GoToMarket (GTM) governance and capability leaders), technology partners, regions, and countries.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for continuous innovation and evolution across core medical affairs areas (stakeholder engagement, medical affairs systems and platforms, advanced upskilling, medical insights, GxP-focused activities, and medical communication).
• Develops, implements, and continuously evolves cutting-edge MA capabilities including but not limited to, stakeholder engagement, insight collection, medical communications, and continuous learning on understanding and addressing external stakeholder needs.
• Routinely engages with Senior Leaders across Human Pharma (OneMedicine function leads and TA Heads of Medicine, Head of Human Pharma, and other board members) to establish and expand medical affairs as a preferred and trusted partner for developing and evolving core medical affairs areas.
• Partner across team leaders to ensure exposure and routine identification of opportunities for development of team members at all levels.
• Strategic partner to Head of GMA and the GMA Leadership Team (LT), responsible for contributing to the shaping of GMA and Medical Affairs strategy and evolution across Human Pharma (e.g., identifying gaps in GMA, TAs, countries, and regions where medical affairs could enhance our ability to reach patients, build the appropriate solutions with cross-functional partners and demonstrate the impact of the solution across teams, peers, and senior management).

Requirements

• Advanced clinical degree (MD, PhD, PharmD, NP) required.
• Many years in pharmaceutical industry.
• Minimum eight (8) years in medical affairs roles/responsibilities at a global and/or country level.
• Minimum eight (8) years of leadership experience; including building and managing teams.
• External recognition as leader in medical affairs.
• Deep experience across medical affairs including, but not limited to, science, stakeholder needs and experiences, platforms, regulatory and legal guidance and laws, and clinical practice.
Demonstrated successful leadership and execution of medical operations and the interdependencies across corporate functions, regions, and countries.

Eligibility Requirements :

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction.
• Must be willing to take a drug test and post-offer physical (if required).
• Must be 18 years of age or older.