Assoc Dir, Neuro Thought Leader Liaison

Accountabilities • Develop and execute comprehensive engagement strategies for national, regional, and emerging thought leaders in rare neurological diseases.

• Build trusted, long-term relationships with neurologists, neuromuscular specialists, rehabilitation physicians, genetic specialists, multidisciplinary care teams, advocacy leaders, and investigators.

• Identify influential experts, centers of excellence, and emerging voices who can help shape the evolving treatment landscape.

• Maintain a strong understanding of thought leaders’ clinical interests, research activities, influence networks, and educational needs.

• Capture, synthesize, and communicate field insights that can inform brand strategy, messaging, evidence generation, and launch planning.

• Identify emerging trends in diagnosis, treatment patterns, referral pathways, and unmet needs within the rare-disease community.

• Translate customer insights into actionable recommendations for commercial leadership.

• Lead the planning and execution of commercial advisory boards, including advisor identification, recruitment, compliant objectives, discussion guides, and insight communication.

• Partner with Marketing and Medical Affairs to ensure advisory activities and expert engagements align with applicable requirements.

• Recruit, onboard, train, coach, and develop a high-performing physician speaker bureau, while evaluating speaker effectiveness and partnering with external vendors.

• Develop engagement strategies for major neurology congresses and coordinate thought leader meetings before, during, and after scientific meetings.

• Capture relevant competitive intelligence and customer insights and support executive leadership engagement with key experts.

• Support launch readiness by identifying educational gaps, assessing market dynamics, informing disease education initiatives, shaping peer-to-peer strategies, and supporting customer segmentation and influence mapping.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; an advanced degree such as an MBA, PharmD, PhD, MSN, or MS is preferred.

• At least 7 years of experience within the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare industry.

• At least 3–5 years of experience in one or more relevant areas, such as Thought Leader Liaison, Product Marketing, Specialty Sales, Medical Affairs leadership, or Commercial field leadership.

• Demonstrated experience in rare disease, specialty pharmaceuticals, and/or neurology.

• Proven ability to think strategically and develop executive-level relationship frameworks.

• Strong understanding of commercial compliance and promotional regulations.

• Excellent relationship-building, communication, presentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Strong project management, organization, prioritization, and execution capabilities.

• Ability to synthesize complex field insights and translate them into clear strategic recommendations.

• Ability to collaborate effectively across Commercial, Marketing, Medical Affairs, and other cross-functional teams.

• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 60–70% for congresses and stakeholder engagement.

• Must reside in the Western U.S. region covered by the role: Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, or South Dakota.

• Ability to work remotely while attending the Boston office approximately 1–2 times per quarter for workshops and key strategy meetings.

Benefits

• Base salary range of $190,000–$225,000 , with actual compensation determined by factors including qualifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and organizational needs.

• Eligibility for short-term and long-term incentive programs.

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.

• Flexible time-off structure, including unlimited sick time and flex time without accrued time-off balances.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Employee recognition programs.

• Remote work arrangement with support for travel and periodic in-person collaboration.

• Opportunities to work across rare disease and neurology initiatives with significant cross-functional and external stakeholder exposure.

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