[Hiring] Field Medical Affairs Team Lead @MSD

Role Description

The Field Medical Affairs, Team Lead of US Medical Affairs (USMA) drives strategic clarity, operational excellence, and cross-functional collaboration to enable impactful scientific engagement and insight generation. The Senior Director, Team Lead is a key leader responsible for guiding, coaching, and developing Field Medical Affairs Professionals (FMAP) to execute high-quality scientific and medical activities in alignment with USMA and enterprise priorities. In addition, they ensure all work reflects our company's commitment to scientific integrity, ethical leadership, and patient-centered value.

Responsibilities and Primary Activities

• Strategic Leadership
  • Ensures adherence to company policies and SOPs, execution of field medical plans and strategies, and support of research initiatives as appropriate.
  • Provide clear direction, vision, and alignment to USMA strategy and enterprise priorities.
  • Foster team cohesion, morale, and resilience through effective communication, recognition, and accountability.
  • Create a culture of trust and psychological safety that promotes continuous learning and growth.
  • Empower team members to lead, take ownership, and drive innovation across the organization.
  • Serve as a trusted partner to senior leaders, offering insights that shape decisions and strategic planning.
  • Set clear, measurable objectives aligned to USMA goals and monitor progress against established performance expectations.
  • Ensure accountability by the disciplined use of performance documentation, highlighting impact, and addressing gaps in a timely manner.
  • Act as a responsible data steward to inform decision making and demonstrate impact by the use of data, metrics, and reporting tools.
  • Model integrity and ensure team adherence to compliance, medical governance, and regulatory requirements, fostering a culture of transparency and accountability.
  • Contribute to annual budget planning through a clear understanding of future needs, effectively manage team budget, and act as a financial steward of company resources.
• Medical & Scientific Strategy
  • Ensure team understanding and execution of medical and scientific strategies within assigned therapeutic areas or functions.
  • Translate strategic objectives into actionable engagement plans and measurable team deliverables.
  • Monitor execution quality, scientific accuracy, and compliance with regulatory, legal, and governance requirements.
  • Guide teams to engage confidently in scientific exchange, strengthening scientific rigor and external stakeholder value.
  • Ensure teams assert the company’s evidence-based scientific perspective with fair-balance and professionalism.
  • Integrate field insights into strategic planning, enabling continuous refinement of USMA medical and scientific priorities.
• Mentoring & Talent Development
  • Coach, mentor, and develop team members through structured feedback, goal setting, and guiding individualized development plans.
  • Recruit, onboard, and train while providing ongoing coaching and performance management.
  • Strengthen team capability by identifying growth opportunities.
  • Partner with HR and leadership to ensure succession readiness within your team.

Qualifications

• Minimum: MD, PhD, PharmD, DNP, or DO with demonstrated ability to effectively lead and coach scientific/medical colleagues at all skill and knowledge levels.
• 3 years in customer-facing, field medical affairs role or relevant experience.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and presentation skills, strong personal integrity, teamwork abilities, business acumen, and focus on scientific education and dialogue.
• Reside in the Eastern US region.
• Ability to organize, prioritize, and work effectively in a constantly changing environment and to motivate a team to do the same.
• Desire to develop and manage a team in an environment of belonging, engagement, and empowerment.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in a field facing role plus prior people management experience (preferred).
• Relevant therapeutic area knowledge and/or knowledge of the US healthcare delivery system (preferred).
• Previous management experience, especially field-based medical professionals (preferred).
• Strong working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite and ability to interface effectively with a variety of technical platforms, including Gen AI (preferred).
• Scientific/medical research experience, including scientific/medical publications (preferred).

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision healthcare and other insurance benefits (for employee and family).
• Retirement benefits, including 401(k).
• Paid holidays, vacation, and compassionate and sick days.