Senior Director, Patient Advocacy

Role Summary

Senior Director, Patient Advocacy leads Regeneron’s disease area enterprise-wide advocacy strategy and operating model, integrating the patient voice across the continuum of discovery, development, and commercialization. This leader exercises independent judgment in ambiguous environments, influences executive decision‑making, and builds scalable processes that elevate patient impact, operational efficiency, and company reputation. The role serves as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and a visible ambassador to advocacy and professional organizations.

Location and Work Model

Sleep Hollow, NY – 4 days per week.

Impact and Scope

• Develops overarching patient advocacy strategy across multiple therapeutic areas with enterprise visibility and executive engagement.
• Establishes standard methodologies and governance for engagement with advocacy and professional societies.
• Advises cross‑functional contributors in Medical, Commercial, Market Access, Policy, and Clinical Development with a multi‑year roadmap on advocacy strategy.
• Accountable for measurable improvements in disease awareness, time to diagnosis, clinical trial awareness, access, and patient experience.
• Operates at both strategic and operational levels; drives outcomes through cross‑functional leadership.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategy and Leadership

• Define and evolve the disease‑area patient advocacy strategy, translating corporate objectives into a prioritized, outcome‑based portfolio.
• Standardize engagement frameworks, decision rights, and operating mechanisms that scale across therapeutic areas and regions.
• Anticipate external trends and policy shifts, recommending tactical choices and trade‑offs with clear implications for patients and the business.
• Help establish governance and operating mechanisms that support alignment, speed, and accountability across departments.

Advocacy Strategy and Execution

• Create and maintain therapeutic‑area strategies and operating plans, including educational programs, disease awareness, advisory boards, patient speaker engagement, clinical trial awareness, and coordination on relevant policy initiatives.
• Support development and deployment of advocacy campaigns; ensure external partner plans align to Regeneron’s goals and compliance standards.
• Define and report outcome‑based KPIs; implement dashboards to monitor reach, quality, and ROI of advocacy efforts.

Executive Engagement and Influence

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives; deliver board‑ready materials that articulate patient impact, risks, and investment options.
• Lead executive forums and steering committees to drive aligned decisions across competing priorities.

Relationship Management

• Lead relationship development with key patient advocacy and professional societies to build durable, mission‑aligned partnerships.
• Ensure Regeneron’s leadership position is evident through presence at priority events; synthesize and disseminate insights to internal stakeholders.

Cross‑Functional Collaboration and Alignment

• Build strong, collaborative relationships with Medical, Commercial/Brand, Market Access, Government Affairs, Health Policy, Clinical Development, and Legal/Compliance.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment, including at top senior leadership levels (e.g., VP level) and execution of advocacy initiatives; co‑create plans with alliance partners where applicable.
• Contribute to departmental strategy, annual planning, budgeting, and digital portal development.

Patient Voice and Insights

• Systematically capture and translate patient insights to inform clinical trial design, evidence generation, disease education, patient services, and access strategies.
• Champion a patient‑centric mindset and embed patient perspectives in enterprise decisions and roadmaps.

Financial and Business Acumen

• Own budgeting and optimize for impact.
• Strategically fund programs that advance patient engagement and disease education aligned to therapeutic priorities.
• Oversee transparent, compliant grant review processes; manage budgets and financial stewardship effectively and in a timely manner.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 12+ years of industry experience, including 10–15+ years in Patient Advocacy leading multi‑stakeholder programs.
• Demonstrated enterprise thinking with a track record of cross‑functional visibility, influence, and company‑wide impact.
• Executive presence with superior communication skills; able to craft concise, data‑driven narratives and board‑ready materials.
• Proven operational rigor: building repeatable processes, governance, and metrics with measurable outcomes.
• Experience collaborating with Medical, Commercial, Market Access, and Policy partners; strong familiarity with compliance in advocacy contexts.
• Preferred: Experience in rare diseases, oncology, hematology, ophthalmology, immunology, and/or cardio‑metabolic; background operating in complex, matrixed, or global environments; alliance management experience.

Reporting and Collaboration

• Reports to Executive Director, Patient Advocacy.
• May manage one or more direct reports.

Key Internal Partnerships

• Engage with SVPs across Medical, Commercial, Market Access, Government Affairs, and Health Policy embedded in the business.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Regeneron is an equal‑opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief (or lack thereof), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, civil status, pregnancy or parental status, age, disability, nationality, citizenship status, ethnic or national origin, membership of the Traveler community, familial status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. Where required, we will provide reasonable accommodation to applicants with known disabilities or chronic illnesses during the recruitment process, unless such accommodation would impose undue hardship.