Director Clinical Value Liaison

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Job Description

The Opportunity

The Clinical Value Liaison (CVL) plays a crucial role in developing and driving a comprehensive medical strategy to enhance patient outcomes, access, and customer experience within the ecosystem. Collaborating with various field partners, the CVL gains a deep understanding of the local healthcare landscape, including health systems, payers, community networks, and key influencers. They find opportunities for advancing healthcare delivery through clinical and population health research. The CVL engages with prioritized customers, works closely with therapeutic area Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) and Field Directors (FDs), and is accountable for field activities in the ecosystem. The CVL will report directly into the Executive Director, Field Medical Lead. As part of the Medical Affairs Field Medical leadership team, the CVL provides medical leadership, collaborates with the commercial clinical value leaders, and focuses on improving patient outcomes, lowering costs, and enhancing the customer experience by leveraging clinical expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary medical point of contact for priority medical accounts and payers.
• Develop, lead, and execute medical strategies aligned with the broader organization while providing ongoing progress updates to relevant stakeholders.
• Create and implement medically independent ecosystem account plans.
• Facilitate and coordinate USMA touchpoints to optimize medical engagements with US Health Systems & Payer customers.
• Collaborate with MSLs and MSL Field Directors for discussions requiring deep scientific or technical expertise.
• Provide scientific exchange across the Kite portfolio, including both commercialized and pipeline products.
• Collaborate with the commercial leaders to establish and maintain senior stakeholder and C-suite relationships across the ecosystem, understanding customer objectives and priorities.

Required Qualifications:

• MD, PharmD or PhD and 8 + years related work experience OR
•  MsRPH, MSN, NP , PA,  and 10 + years related work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience successfully partnering with customers and achieving shared goals and outcomes; managed care/health plan, hospital administration, clinical pathway or formulary decision maker, NCCN panelists; HEOR and industry experience highly preferred
• Developing and implementing strategy across complex healthcare environments with an ability to influence without authority and mobilize colleagues to action around shared goals
• Ability to lead complex cross-functional account teams and operating under ambiguity without a set playbook, including aligning teams
• Prioritize and disseminate insights for shaping evidence generation priorities
• Lead, influence, and work in a matrixed environment regardless of reporting structure
• Ongoing investment in developing self and others to enable others to achieve their potential.
• Excellent understanding of external laws, codes and company policies that apply to the healthcare industry.
• 10+ years of managed care/health plan, hospital administration, clinical pathway or formulary decision maker, industry experience, etc.

Location and Travel: Ability to travel overnight to meet with customers, internal stakeholders, and attend relevant conferences up to 50% time

For additional benefits information, visit:

https://www.gilead.com/careers/compensation-benefits-and-wellbeing

* Eligible employees may participate in benefit plans, subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable plans.

Kite is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of innovative cancer immunotherapies with a goal of providing rapid, long-term durable response and eliminating the burden of chronic care. The company is focused on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) and T cell receptor (TCR) engineered cell therapies designed to empower the immune system's ability to recognize and kill tumors. Kite is based in Santa Monica, CA. For more information on Kite, please visit www.kitepharma.com. Sign up to follow @KitePharma on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kitepharma.
 

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