Medical Director - Heart Failure - US East Coast
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc · Atlanta, GA, US
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About the Role
This role supports the company's future presence in heart failure and a key clinical development program. It interfaces between Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, focusing on executing the ICONIC-HF trial in the US and building the foundation for future IV iron adoption in heart failure.
Responsibilities
- Strengthen investigator engagement, facilitate communication, and generate insights for successful trial execution.
- Establish and maintain strong scientific relationships with investigators, study coordinators, and site personnel.
- Conduct regular site engagements (virtual and in-person) to understand local opportunities, challenges, and operational barriers.
- Serve as a US-based scientific liaison between participating sites and the HQ R&D ICONIC-HF trial team.
- Identify, understand, and communicate barriers impacting screening, enrollment, and study execution, and help define mitigation activities.
- Facilitate cross-functional problem-solving and escalation pathways for identified barriers.
- Support protocol understanding and scientific discussions within approved governance frameworks.
- Gather and communicate investigator insights, competitive intelligence, protocol feedback, and study observations to internal stakeholders.
- Organize and facilitate regional sponsor-investigator touchpoint meetings.
- Identify and share best practices from successful sites.
- Support site activation and engagement initiatives.
- Maintain a strong understanding of site experiences and investigator perspectives.
- Develop a deep understanding of the US heart failure landscape, including treatment pathways, referral patterns, unmet needs, and barriers to adoption.
- Map, prioritize, and engage regional and national heart failure thought leaders.
- Build and maintain scientific relationships with key experts beyond the ICONIC-HF investigator network.
- Generate actionable insights to support future evidence generation, publication planning, congress activities, and launch readiness.
- Partner with HQ and the US affiliate to translate field insights into strategic recommendations.
- Support identification and prioritization of investigator-sponsored research opportunities.
- Contribute to long-term medical affairs strategy and launch-readiness planning for IV iron in heart failure.
- Support future launch-readiness initiatives in partnership with Medical Affairs, Strategy and Operations, Market Access, and Commercial colleagues.
- Stay current and compliant with industry best practices, Corporate Policies, and mandated government regulations.
- Ensure adherence to all relevant laws, regulations, and guidelines related to pharmaceutical operations.
- Stay current with and adhere to all policies and procedures in the employee handbook.
Requirements
- Advanced scientific or healthcare degree preferred (e.g., MD, PharmD, PhD, NP, PA, MSc, or equivalent).
- Experience within cardiology is required; heart failure experience is preferred.
- Experience from clinical development, research and/or Medical Affairs.
- Demonstrated understanding of clinical trial conduct and investigator engagement.
- Experience collaborating with investigators, academic institutions, and cross-functional internal stakeholders.
- Ability to work effectively within cross-functional and matrix organizations.
- Strong scientific communication, relationship-building, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to translate external insights into actionable recommendations for internal stakeholders.
- Basic GCP training or certification is preferred (training can be provided).
- Heart failure expertise is preferred.
- Cardiovascular outcomes trial experience is preferred.
- Launch or pre-launch experience is preferred.
- Experience engaging US-based KOLs and national thought leaders is preferred.
- Experience working across both clinical development and medical affairs environments is preferred.
- Established KOL network within heart failure/cardiology is preferred.
- Requires budgetary responsibilities and discretion with confidential data.
- Requires approximately 65% travel time.
Skills
- Scientific communication
- Relationship-building
- Stakeholder management
- Translating external insights into actionable recommendations
- Scientific engagement
- Strategic thinking
- Execution
- Collaboration
Location
- United States
Work Type
- Remote
- Travel
Experience Level
- Advanced
Education Level
- Advanced scientific or healthcare degree preferred (e.g., MD, PharmD, PhD, NP, PA, MSc, or equivalent)
About the Company
- A global, family-owned company driven by a passion for innovation in carbohydrate chemistry and cell cycle biology.
- Develops innovative treatments for unmet patient needs, focusing on iron metabolism and blood-related disorders.
- Has 700+ employees across the USA, the UK, Ireland, the Nordics, and Germany.
- Committed to scientific excellence, patient care, and collaborative partnerships with the medical community.
- Core values include being People-Driven, Committed to Quality, and Innovating for Better Lives.
- Has continued its growth trajectory through acquisitions, partnerships, and pipeline development.
- R&D investments leverage core competencies and advancements in oncology supportive care.
Equal Opportunity
- Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. is committed to equal opportunity in employment.
- Values diversity which embraces all perspectives towards innovation and is committed to making PTI a truly inclusive place to work.
- Selects and employs qualified candidates based on competencies and skills regardless of gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, national or ethnic origin, marital status, race, religion, color, age, disability, sexual orientation, military, or veteran status.