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Job Description:

As a privately-owned, biopharmaceutical company, Ferring pioneers and delivers life-changing therapies that help people build families and live better lives. Our independence helps us cultivate an entrepreneurial spirit and long-term perspective that enables us to achieve growth and scale, while remaining agile and true to our 'people first' philosophy. Built on a 70-year plus commitment to science and research, Ferring is relentless in its pursuit of science that drives powerful discoveries and therapies to help people build families, stay healthy, and stand up to the world's oldest enemy: disease.

As the Associate Director, Medical Affairs - Uro-Oncology, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our medical strategy and advancing our therapeutic pipeline. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate cross-functionally with research, commercial, and clinical teams, ensuring that our medical strategies align with our vision of improving patient care. Your expertise will drive scientific communication, medical education, and stakeholder engagement, establishing Ferring as a trusted partner in the Uro-Oncology community.

Responsibilities:

• Support the implementation of the US Uro-Oncology medical affairs strategy for all relevant assets.

• Support and lead projects related to pre-approval and planned post-approval medical activities in close collaboration with cross-functional colleagues.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure medical communication plans are aligned with business units.

• Support, plan and lead tactics of the medical scientific strategy, including publications, congress activities, advisory boards, medical education, opportunities, medical information, scientific training, and speaker development.

• Support development and management of the budget for medical affairs tactics, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives. This includes forecasting expenses for medical education initiatives, key opinion leader engagement, scientific meetings, and other tactical activities.

• Represent Medical Affairs on cross-functional projects, meetings and committees to offer medical input, clinical expertise and data knowledge.

• Draw on disease state expertise and product knowledge to represent Medical Affairs in external settings such as medical congresses or company-sponsored scientific advisory meeting/Advisory Boards.

• Serve as scientific peer-to-peer resource to external disease experts and internal stakeholders. Support internal and external collaborators with up-to-date medical information, robust disease expertise, and product information. Present information to healthcare professionals upon request to provide peer education.

• Train internal stakeholders (i.e. MOVLs, MSLs, sales teams) on key scientific and medical topics in assigned therapeutic area.

• Ensure internal and external presentations contain the most current and relevantmedical information.

• Continuously develop an understanding of the relevant associated disease clinical landscape. Maintain the scientific knowledge necessary to respond to questions encountered from key stakeholders.

• Support Phase 3, prelaunch as well as post launch activities with stakeholders and actively work to develop appropriate Investigator Initiated Studies (IISs) strategy.

• Ensure that all medical affairs activities are conducted in full compliance with relevant guidance, rules and regulations.

• Support medical initiatives across other therapeutic areas relevant to licensing, translational, and clinical development activities, as requested.

• Collaborate with colleagues to support product development, launch, and post market activities, including identification and support of clinical investigators and clinical study sites as well as life cycle management, as requested.

• Complete all company and job-related training and expense reporting as assigned and within the required timelines.

Qualifications:

• Advanced Degree in Life Sciences: MD, PharmD or PhD required

• Minimum 10 years' medical affairs experience required, with 3 - 5 years of relevant experience or practice in Urology preferred

• Demonstrated ability to write and review research protocols

• Solid foundation in science with appropriate business acumen

• Demonstrated ability to impart clinical/medical information clearly and effectively

• Thorough understanding of the FDA, HIPAA, and other ethical and legal guidelines relevant to the pharmaceutical industry to be able to function in a complaint and ethical manner.

• Must be able to travel 30% due to conferences and meetings.

• Excellent communication (oral and written) and presentation skills.

• Strong inter-personal skills with a high level of sensitivity relative to the needs of patients, health care providers, and internal collaborators.

• Strong planning and organizational skills.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to exercise sound business judgment.

• Strong ethics with good attention to detail.

• Self-starter, consistently going above and beyond.

• Adaptable, agile, and resilient.

• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively as part of a cross-functional team.

With Ferring, you will be joining a recognized leader, identified as one of "The World's Most Innovative Companies" by Fast Company, and honored by Fortune with inclusion on its "Change the World List," for addressing society's unmet needs. Ferring US is also Great Places to Work Certified, distinguishing it as one of the best companies to work for in the country.

Ferring + you

At Ferring, we offer competitive total compensation along with an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work. From working hours that respect your lifestyle, a culture that is welcoming and equitable, and the chance to work with the industry's most impressive people, these are just some of the ways we live our "People First" philosophy.

Our Compensation and Benefits

At Ferring, base salary is one part of our competitive total compensation and benefits package and is determined using a salary range. The base salary range for this role is $208,000 to $258,000, which is the reasonable estimate of the base compensation for this role. The actual amount paid may differ based on non-discriminatory factors such as experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, education and primary work location.

Benefits for this role include: comprehensive healthcare (medical, dental, and vision) with a premium differential, inverse to base salary, to be paid by employees; a 401k plan and company match; short and long-term disability coverage; basic life insurance; wellness benefits; reimbursement for certain tuition expenses; sick time frontloaded yearly of 40 hours, or higher if state or local law requires; vacation time for full time employees to accrue between 112.5 and 150 hours yearly in the first four (4) years of employment, and additional accruals starting in the fifth (5th) year of employment; and 12 to 13 paid holidays per year. We are proud to offer 26 weeks of paid parental leave, learn more about the parental leave offering in our benefits package here. For roles that are not field-based, Ferring has a policy that allows employees to work up to two days from home and three at a Ferring site, weekly.

Ferring is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, p regnancy, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local laws.

Join our team and your voice will be heard, and your contributions will be valued. If you love to come up with new ways to make a positive difference and see them through, you will fit right in.

We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer (including Disability/Protected Veterans). We maintain a drug-free workplace.

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