Patient Advocacy Industry Relations Liaison

Seeking Talent Near: Tampa, FL; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC

Lead corporate advocacy interface with select regional and local patient advocacy groups and select regional medical societies to advance Acadia’s business objectives in current and future therapeutic areas, patient communities and geographies.  Responsible for building a strategic plan for identifying and strengthening relationships, developing partnerships, collaborations and continuing to position Acadia as a thought leader and valued partner with patient and medical communities through active engagement

Primary Responsibilities

• Represents the company and acts as its liaison with regional industry associations and regional patient advocacy groups; attends trade and professional meetings important to the company’s success.
• Supports the execution of sponsorships and programs to optimize patient outcomes in all phases of the product life cycle.
• Activate initiatives that impact state level public policies to remove barriers to accessing care.
• Work with counter parts within various industry partners for coordination to ensure open communications and alignment on goals, strategies and execution.
• Identifies and cultivates relationships with key regional and local influencers and organizations that are essential to achieving business objectives.
• Demonstrates clinically accurate product and disease state knowledge during interactions with internal and external customers.
• Contributes to the execution of strategic plans for assigned patient advocacy and medical societies and overseas the successful implementation that is aligned with company business strategy, plans, annual budgets and business reviews.
• Manages regional budgets and forecasting for patient advocacy and sponsorship activities.
• Champion the patient and medical professional voice and experience with key internal stakeholders.
• Oversees company sponsored patient advocacy events and forums to appropriately engage Acadia employees to understand the special needs of patient groups. 
• Responsibility for advocacy and industry relationships for current and future therapeutic areas, predominately focused on Rare Disease, Rett Syndrome, Prader-Willi Syndrome, Parkinson’s, and Alzheimer’s organizations.
• Monitors competitive activity and identifies industry trends.
• Interfaces with medical affairs to ensure coordination and alignment with KOL, Ad board and medical education activities.
• Ensure cross functional collaboration with field-based medical, brand, market access, market development team and other key stakeholders to optimally manage relationships to ensure alignment and effective execution of patient advocacy and medical society strategy.
• Serves as a representative of the organization to both internal and external regional groups and ensures information communicated is accurate and up to date regarding organizational activities and industry trends.
• Stays current of new developments and ideas in the field of advocacy relations and incorporates such developments, ideas and strategies into the development and execution of programs.
• Ensures department’s adherence to company policies and quality system requirements, as well as other legal and regulatory directives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience/Skills

Bachelor’s degree in marketing, healthcare, business administration or related or related field.  Targeting 7 years of progressively responsible biopharmaceutical sales, account management, medical affairs, and/or marketing experience, or related experiences with 3 years of experience with key opinion leader relationship management.  An equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be considered.

Key Skills:

• CNS and Rare Disease experience strongly preferred.  Previous territory manager or regional area disease manager experience strongly preferred.
• Understanding of Patient Advocacy landscape, CNS and Rare Diseases, and Specialty Biopharmaceutical Distribution including academic medical centers, hospital systems and long-term care.
• Proven skill at negotiating with regional business partners and influencing regional leaders regarding matters of significance in a matrix organization.
• Ability to effectively communicate, written and presentation form.
• Proven PowerPoint, Excel, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Office System Skills.
• Ability to travel up to 70% of the time.

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, see, talk or hear in a standard office environment and independently from remote locations. Employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.  Ability to travel independently overnight and work after hours if required by travel schedule or business needs.

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