MSL Field Director, Caplyta

The Field Director is responsible for leading the Caplyta US Northeast Medical Science Liaison (MSL) team in providing scientific, clinical, research, and educational support to health care professionals and internal partners related to Caplyta, while ensuring customer centric, insight driven, and compliant scientific engagement across the region. The Field Director will partner with the MSL Head to set and drive strategy for their region/organized providers, translating TA and Medical Affairs strategy into clear regional priorities, measurable objectives, and executional excellence. The Field Director is responsible for ensuring strong clinical engagement strategy for each territory within their region and will conduct routine strategy reviews with each MSL direct report, leveraging data, insights, AI tools, and performance trends to guide decision making. The primary role of the Field Director is to provide support, coaching, and development to each of their direct reports (MSLs), utilizing the skills framework, routine feedback, and periodic field observation, with a strong emphasis on strength-based coaching, continuous improvement, and career development planning. The Field Director will be responsible for the execution of field Medical Affairs programs, including product launches, proactive initiatives, and HCP engagement. The Field Director is responsible for ensuring that each direct report is functioning at the expected level of scientific acumen/expertise, presentation skills, and soft skill abilities, including professional credibility and command, stakeholder influence, adaptive communication, and effective scientific storytelling. In addition, the Field Director plays a critical role to remove barriers and aligning field activities to ensure impactful scientific engagement. The Field Director is responsible for staying abreast of scientific information and disease states to ensure proficient interaction model, and coach with their team. They will also ensure their direct reports execute collection and analysis of high quality, actionable Medical Insights and effectively communicate them to inform strategy, evidence generation, and lifecycle planning. The Field Director will demonstrate effective change leadership by upholding professionalism, performance, and integrity in challenging situations, and by guiding the team with resilience, accountability, and engagement through ambiguity and shifting priorities. The Field Director will coordinate closely with Medical Affairs, Scientific Affairs, and cross functional partners to align objectives and execution as appropriate. The Field Director is expected to identify possible solution(s) and make a recommendation to the MSL Head for action, demonstrating strong critical thinking, risk assessment, and sound judgment. The recommendations are expected to support the company’s scientific objectives. In addition, the Field Director will work collaboratively with local and regional internal business partners to meet scientific needs of customers, acting as a trusted scientific leader and strategic thought partner. The Field Director is responsible for providing oversight of all activities in accordance with current regulatory and health care compliance guidelines, modeling compliant behavior, reinforcing ethical decision making, and ensuring a culture of accountability and integrity across the team. Requirements A minimum of a master’s degree is required. PharmD, PhD, MD highly preferred. Minimum of 8 years required. A minimum of 4 years of pharmaceutical industry, and a minimum of 2 years of MSL experience are required. Clinical/research experience is preferred. Previous people management responsibility is required. TA-related experience is preferred. Proficiency in data gathering and analysis, clinical expertise, problem solving, interpersonal influence, and cross-functional collaboration strategic thinking and competitive landscape analysis. Must live in their assigned region and in close proximity to an airport. This role requires regional travel of approx. 60% depending on geography (including overnight travel, periodic national scientific congresses and key strategic/scientific meetings at the corporate office in Horsham, PA/Titusville, NJ). A valid US driver’s license. Demonstrated commitment to learning emerging technologies, such as AI, through exploration, iteration, and applying new tools over time. Experience building team AI literacy and confidence, reinforcing trusted and responsible AI use and sound judgment. Core Competencies Demonstrates strong leadership in managing a Medical Science Liaison team, ensuring effective scientific engagement and compliance while leveraging data and insights for strategic decision-making. Proficient in coaching, development, and fostering a culture of accountability and integrity within the team. 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