Thought Leader Liaison Southeast Region (Remote)

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is an international biopharmaceutical company focused on improving patients’ lives by identifying, developing, and commercializing meaningful products that address unmet medical needs. We are continuing to expand our commercial product portfolio and our research and development pipeline in therapeutic areas that can leverage our unique expertise. Our therapeutic area of focus for this role is Oncology– an area in which we have a deep understanding of the patient journey and a suite of products and product candidates to address critical needs. 

We are looking for the best and brightest talent to join our team.  If you’re looking to be a part of a company with an unwavering commitment to improving patients’ lives and being a great place to work, we hope you’ll explore our career openings and get to know Jazz Pharmaceuticals. 

Essential Functions

This individual will: 

• Help lead the key customer marketing efforts in their respective regions 

• Drive results in key areas, including KOL relationship management, refining our approach to insights collection/reporting and advocacy development, speaker identification, training and management, and regional marketing efforts 

• Develop clinical and commercial knowledge of the GI cancers market; understand the treatment and market specifics in their regions 

• Help formulate strategic and tactical plans regarding our education and our KOL engagements based on a solid understanding of their regional market and market trends 

• Develop engagement plans to enhance relationships and partnerships with key external stakeholders – Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) across functions (MDs, pharmacists, nurses, administrators) and sites of care (academic and community) 

• Contribute to speaker bureau development, including recruiting, developing content, training, executing, and evaluating branded and unbranded educational peer-to-peer programs 

• Help support advisory boards and other insight generation projects 

• Contribute to and pull-through commercial strategies at medical conferences and meetings 

• Prioritize, and help develop and implement peer-to-peer education or other tactics that meet the needs of regional markets 

• Establish strong relationships with key internal functions – sales, access, and medical teams 

• Ensure plans and tactics meet compliance and regulatory standards 

• Participate on cross-functional teams and occasionally represent the Brand team at Promotional Material Review Committee (PMRC) meetings, and other internal meetings, as required 

• Manage marketing projects and budgets associated with any regional key customer activities 

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 5+ years of commercial experience in the pharmaceutical/biotech industry (KOL engagement, Key Customer marketing, Thought-leader liaison work, sales, marketing, or equivalent) 

• 3+ years of oncology experience required 

• Previous KOL-facing experience required 

• Strong preference for breadth of functional experience 

• Strong preference for GI market and/ or biomarker testing/ diagnostics experience 

• Launch experience preferred 

• Outstanding interpersonal skills, strategic relationship management, and demonstrated collaboration skills 

• Team oriented individual with solid communication skills including experience presenting to cross-functional teams 

• Must demonstrate good judgement and evidence of strategic thinking, planning, and project management skills 

• Strong project management skills 

• Approximately 40-50% travel is required  

Required/Preferred Education and Licenses

• Bachelor’s Degree (life sciences or a related discipline a plus) 

• Graduate degree (preferred)