Senior Medical Director, Global Medical Affairs, Lupus

About This Role The Global Medical Affairs Senior Director, Lupus will be a strategic partner providing expert medical leadership to guide development, launch planning, and support for Lupus to improve meaningful patient outcomes. This is a late-stage clinical investigational compound co‑developed with alliance partners. You will build and maintain external relationships among medical experts globally and be accountable for the development and implementation of the Global Medical Strategy for Lupus. In collaboration with the relevant medical and cross‑functional partners (R&D, V&A, Commercial, Program Leadership) at Biogen and our alliance partners, you will ensure key medical insights relevant for data generation efforts and medical education strategy are understood and executed in a prioritized manner. What You’ll Do Build and maintain close partnership with key medical experts and healthcare providers to bring insights into the Global Medical affairs strategy. Provide expert medical input to guide clinical development, comprehensive evidence generation, and launch planning in Lupus. Represent global medical at alliance forums and governance meetings requiring medical inputs (e.g. Regulatory forums, R&D, safety). Develop and implement cross‑functionally aligned medical strategies in support of clinical development programs and eventual launch planning activities. Lead high impact medical activities, such as advisory boards, medical education, and medical research projects. Review key manuscripts and publications, acting as primary signoff where needed. Identify and advance productive collaborations with external stakeholders including healthcare and patient advocacy organizations. Serve as a credible and trusted partner to our alliance colleagues. Create positive team climate in alignment with Biogen’s culture. Who You Are You are a scientific and/or clinical professional with a passion for science and a deep scientific knowledge of the Rheumatology disease area. You are a strong communicator and collaborator, keep patients, payers, and physicians top of mind in your daily work, and collaborate to solve critical scientific and business challenges. You are willing to travel 25% of your time to engage with external stakeholders. Required Skills Advanced degree required: MD preferred, PhD or PharmD. 8–10+ years’ experience in Medical Affairs. Relevant experience in Rheumatology required. Experience working on alliance partnership. Experience and expertise in developing, communicating, and executing comprehensive medical affairs strategy. Demonstrated ability to build productive collaborations with medical experts, and existing relationships in the Rheumatology area. Strong working knowledge of US and ex‑US regulations as relevant to Medical Affairs. Ability to be agile, a self‑starter, and comfortable operating at times in a setting of ambiguity. Excellent communication skills: verbal (interpersonal and presentations) and written. Proven track record of delivering results that meet or exceed targeted objectives. Ability to travel 25%. Preferred Skills Experience with medical launch as well as products at different stages of the lifecycle. Demonstrated ability to effectively lead and collaborate with global, regional and/or affiliate medical to ensure regional activities are executed in alignment with global medical strategy and ensuring the insights and needs from them are known and properly addressed. Ability to manage projects and take initiative to solve complex and challenging problems. Job Level Management Additional Information Base compensation range for this role is: $278,000.00 – $382,000.00. Regular employees are eligible to receive both short‑term and long‑term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities. In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support employees and their families’ physical, financial, emotional, and social well‑being. Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances. Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement. Short‑ and Long‑Term Disability insurance. Minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end‑of‑year shutdown time off (Dec26–Dec31). Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance. 80 hours of sick time per calendar year. Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit. 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions. Employee stock purchase plan. Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year. Employee Resource Groups participation. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E‑Verify Employer in the United States. #J-18808-Ljbffr