Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Medical Science Liaison

• Establish and maintain scientific relationships with national and regional KOLs, HCPs, patient advocacy organizations, and centers of excellence
• Lead scientific exchange activities to communicate data, address medical inquiries, and support awareness of current and emerging therapies
• Support Phase 2, Phase 3b, and Phase 4 clinical research activities, including investigator engagement and research proposal facilitation
• Maintain deep scientific, clinical, and therapeutic expertise across Acadia's portfolio and relevant disease states
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Medical Affairs, HEOR, Market Access, Commercial, and other internal partners in accordance with compliance requirements
• Gather and communicate field insights, emerging scientific trends, and unmet patient and provider needs
• Identify opportunities to differentiate products through clinical and scientific insights
• Provide scientific and educational support to internal and external stakeholders
• Represent Acadia at medical congresses, educational programs, scientific meetings, and industry events
• Support internal training initiatives, including speaker development and field team education
• Other duties as assigned

Medical Science Liaison / Senior Medical Science Liaison

Educator

• Provide expert field-based patient education and support throughout the Rett treatment journey
• Serve as a dedicated point of contact for Rett families’ on-label clinical education questions about disease state and product education
• Educate patients, caregivers, and care team members through in-person, telephone, and virtual interactions
• Determine individual patient and caregiver needs and provide appropriate education and resources throughout the patient journey
• Support the assigned territory and collaborate with Marketing, Sales, Patient Access, Medical Affairs, Advocacy, and other internal partners
• Provide disease-state, product, therapy-management, and Acadia Customer Support Program insights to internal stakeholders
• Help develop tools and resources addressing educational gaps and therapy-management strategies
• Moderate, lead, and present caregiver speaker programs as needed
• Attend community events within the assigned territory
• Provide reactive in-service education to physician offices about the educator role and patient-support resources
• Identify leadership, training, mentorship, and development opportunities
• Ensure all internal and external actions comply with laws, regulations, policies, and Acadia values

Senior Family Support Educator

Sales

• Promote Acadia products to healthcare professionals in person and virtually, providing compliant clinical, disease-state, and reimbursement information
• Develop and execute territory business plans using market data, customer insights, and quarterly action plans to meet or exceed sales objectives
• Build and maintain relationships with healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders, advocacy organizations, and other healthcare stakeholders
• Address customer questions, concerns, and objections using advanced dialogue and selling skills
• Tailor approved sales aids, clinical reprints, and brand resources to customer needs
• Partner with managed markets, operations, sales training, marketing, and other internal colleagues to deliver coordinated solutions
• Advise on product pricing, reimbursement, and specialty distribution channels, liaising with customers and Acadia on access issues
• Track and report sales activities, business expenses, and customer interactions
• Represent Acadia at conferences, exhibits, trainings, and national, regional, and local meetings
• Mentor and train new sales specialists and contribute to cross-functional projects and field strategic insights
• Travel independently, including overnight and air travel as needed; travel may be up to 80%

Executive Neuroscience Sales Specialist

Medical Director

• Prepare defined clinical and regulatory documents from planning and storyline development through writing, review, approval, and final formatting
• Produce briefing books, cover letters, summary documents, investigator brochures, clinical study reports, protocols, and other development documentation
• Synchronize document preparation, review, approval, and production timelines with project management resources
• Communicate and track deliverables, writing processes, and timelines with the Development team and management
• Convert scientific and clinical data into documents meeting regulatory requirements
• Develop submission strategy and content outlines with cross-functional team members and assign content partners
• Serve as writing lead on assigned documents
• Collaborate with Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Biometrics, Rare Disease, Quality, and external groups
• Ensure electronic document deliverables are compiled according to timelines, templates, and standards
• Interpret source information and explain data according to scientific principles and regulatory requirements
• Verify document completeness, objectives, grammar, style, formatting, and compliance with ICH, regulations, guidelines, templates, and Acadia SOPs
• Identify strategic solutions to writing-process issues and escalate when appropriate
• Maintain current knowledge of Acadia and industry regulatory requirements
• Guide and oversee contract writers and external vendors/agencies
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed

Associate Director, Medical Writing

• Provide strategic interim coverage across open sales territories nationwide
• Manage assigned territories while promoting a specialized Neurology product to Movement Disorder Specialists and Neurologists
• Provide value and service to help providers identify and start appropriate patients on therapy
• Educate physicians, staff, and healthcare professionals on Acadia products and address questions, objections, and concerns
• Build relationships with healthcare professionals and key opinion leaders and coordinate issue resolution with internal stakeholders
• Analyze sales potential and execute territory plans, including call activity, business meals, speaker programs, and approved activities
• Develop, evaluate, and adjust quarterly business and action plans
• Provide pricing and reimbursement guidance and liaise between customers and Acadia
• Submit timely reports, maintain accurate expense records, and comply with regulations and company policies
• Collaborate with sales leadership, regional and area teammates, and cross-functional partners
• Attend conferences, trainings, meetings, exhibits, and product launches
• Participate in leadership activities, mentoring, field training, cross-functional projects, and meeting training activities
• Represent Acadia’s culture, mission, and values and meet or exceed sales expectations
• Build customer relationships and provide disease, product, and reimbursement information
• Provide approved customer resources, including product samples, clinical trial data, and patient brochures
• Manage relationships with key opinion leaders, speakers, medical societies, advocacy groups, long-term care facilities, payers, and pharmacists
• Develop neuroscience and Acadia product knowledge and understand local and regional market trends
• Pursue ongoing development and establish subject-matter expertise in the neuroscience medical community
• Perform other duties as assigned

Associate Flex Neuroscience Sales Specialist

• Promote Acadia products to healthcare professionals in person and virtually, providing clinical, disease state, and reimbursement information compliantly
• Develop and execute territory business plans using market data, customer insights, and quarterly action plans
• Establish and maintain relationships with healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders, advocacy organizations, and other healthcare stakeholders
• Address customer questions, concerns, and objections using advanced dialogue and selling skills
• Tailor approved sales aids, clinical reprints, and brand resources to customer needs
• Partner with managed markets, operations, sales training, marketing, and other internal colleagues
• Advise on product pricing, reimbursement, and specialty distribution channels; liaise on access-related issues
• Track and report sales activities, business expenses, and customer interactions
• Represent Acadia at conferences, exhibits, trainings, and national, regional, and local meetings
• Mentor and train new sales specialists and contribute to cross-functional projects and field strategic insights

• Build trusted relationships with healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders, researchers, advocacy organizations, and centers of excellence
• Facilitate scientific exchange and medical education about current and emerging therapies
• Provide research trial site support and facilitate investigator-initiated research proposals
• Develop and maintain scientific, clinical, and therapeutic expertise for Acadia’s portfolio
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Regional Business Leaders and Account Business Managers
• Provide strategic field insights
• Identify disease concepts and compound characteristics for product differentiation
• Provide scientific, clinical, and educational support for internal and external clients
• Represent Acadia at continuing educational events, medical meetings, and conventions
• Support Commercial operations through Speaker and Sales Representative Training
• Partner with internal departments to ensure accurate medical and scientific information delivery
• Travel throughout the West region, covering Northern California, Oregon, and Washington, up to 75%

Senior Medical Science Liaison, Rare Disease

QA Engineer

• Oversee CMO’s from a quality perspective as assigned and perform review and approval of CMO Quality Documentation.
• Manages the Acadia batch disposition process of API, Drug Product, Raw materials and Intermediates
• Participates in design, implementation and management of the Acadia GMP quality management system, based on Swissmedic/EMA/MHRA and other applicable international regulations
• Ensures compliance of the Acadia GMP quality management system with Swissmedic/EMA/MHRA and applicable international quality management system regulations
• Serves as a key point of contact with CMO partners and ensures integrated, coordinated activities related to cGMP production and continuous improvement
• Participates in GMP supplier audits and Acadia documentation control systems as needed
• Manages and/or provides oversight to QA personnel involved with CMO technology transfer, process validation, batch documentation, registration batch review and process changes and deviations
• Participates in the review of, and ensures conformance to Quality Agreements with GMP contract service providers for outsourced operations
• Manages internal investigations and change management and establishes effective CAPA plans and ensure oversight on CMOs investigation and change management activities.
• Participates in and/or leads QA in continuous improvement of Acadia quality management systems according to GMP and current industry standards
• Ensures adequate QA representation on all GMP product development teams; provides direction to QA representatives on these teams
• Recommends changes to policies and establishes procedures that affect the functional area and may also have company-wide effect
• Participates in Quality Operations functions such as: Material Review Board, quality board, strategic planning efforts, etc., as may be required
• Participates in formal risk assessment activities as required
• Develops and/or contributes metrics to support product and/or process review efforts as needed
• Develops department goals and objectives for senior management review in alignment with Acadia strategic planning
• Other duties as assigned/required

Senior Manager, Quality Assurance

• Lead and support core QMS processes, including Management Review and Annual Product Quality Reviews (APQRs).
• Review batch documentation and support commercial product release activities, including deviation management, CAPA implementation, and change control.
• Plan, conduct, and follow up on internal audits, supplier audits, and regulatory inspections.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and support quality risk management.
• Manage supplier oversight activities, including qualification, performance monitoring, and revisions of quality agreements.
• Support GDP compliance programs, including transportation and distribution oversight, warehousing activities, temperature excursion management, customer qualification, and recall readiness.
• Ensure compliance with data integrity requirements and governance of computerized systems, electronic records, and electronic signatures.
• Collaborate with Regulatory Affairs, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Distribution, and other cross-functional teams to support compliant product release and distribution activities.
• Identify, assess, and escalate quality and compliance risks as appropriate.

• Provide disease state, product, and ongoing therapy management education upon request, in consumer friendly language to the Rett community, which may include patients, caregivers, and/or other care team members. Caregiver engagement may take place before, during, and after therapy initiation, through various formats, including in-person, telephonic, and/or virtual interactions.
• Determine individual needs of patients and caregivers, and serve as an ongoing resource to provide appropriate education and resources accordingly, throughout the various stages of the patient journey.
• Collaborates with and provides support for the entire assigned territory, which consists of multiple internal cross-functional partners (Marketing, Sales, Patient Access Team, Medical Affairs, Advocacy, and others), and may require coverage of multiple states. Supports and communicates educational opportunities with cross functional partners, as appropriate.
• Possess expert knowledge and provide insights to internal stakeholders including, but limited to, training leads, marketing partners, advocacy, medical and leadership, in an effort to develop tools and resources to address educational gaps, enhance disease state education, and therapy management strategies to patient families/caregivers.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of disease state, product, and Acadia Customer Support Programs, such as Hub-related and Patient Assistance Programs, and ambassador speaker programs, etc.
• May moderate, lead and present caregiver speaker programs as needed, and attend community events within assigned territory.
• Provide in-service to physician offices reactively, to educate about the Family Support Educator role, patient support resources provided to caregivers, pre and post enrollment in the program, and foster a dialogue between caregivers and healthcare providers.
• Identify and execute on opportunities to provide leadership within the Family Support Educator team and with cross functional partners.
• May provide formal mentorship and/or development opportunities with new Family Support Educator team members, and/or to cross functional colleagues interested in Patient Support Services.
• Identify training and development opportunities related to Patient Support Services and the broader organization.
• Ensures that all actions, both internally and externally, working on Acadia’s behalf are in compliance with all laws, regulations, policies and demonstrates Acadia values.

Family Support Educator

• Promote Acadia products to HCPs in person and virtually, providing clinical, disease state, and reimbursement information in a compliant and customer-focused manner.
• Develop and execute a territory business plan to meet or exceed sales objectives, leveraging market data, customer insights, and quarterly action plans.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with HCPs, including key opinion leaders, advocacy organizations, and other healthcare stakeholders.
• Address customer questions, concerns, and objections using advanced dialogue and selling skills.
• Tailor approved sales aids, clinical reprints, and brand resources to meet specific customer needs.
• Partner with internal colleagues (e.g., managed markets, operations, sales training, marketing) to deliver coordinated solutions.
• Provide guidance on product pricing, reimbursement, and specialty distribution channels, acting as a liaison between customers and the Company for access-related issues.
• Accurately track and report sales activities, business expenses, and customer interactions in a timely manner.
• Represent Acadia at conferences, exhibits, and trainings; participate in national, regional, and local meetings as required.
• Mentor and train new sales specialists as needed, and contribute to cross-functional projects and field strategic insights.

Neuroscience Sales Specialist

Operations

• Support the development of launch strategy, commercial planning, and business planning for Germany.
• Define goals, strategies, tactics, and market analyses to maximize the potential of a new rare disease product for Rett syndrome.
• Oversee marketing and launch activities, including brand, marketing, PR, and digital plans; investment alignment; forecasting; demand planning; and launch execution.
• Track launch performance and support commercial and field force excellence initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional alignment across medical, marketing, PR, digital, market access, and reimbursement activities.
• Assess market research and competitive benchmarks.
• Support the development of commercial materials for KAMs.
• Support customer-facing execution, CRM and territory management systems, ROI evaluation, budget allocation, sales targets, and incentive systems.
• Partner closely with the EU Commercial team and the GM Germany for strong regional-country alignment on commercial priorities.

Senior Manager/Associate Director, Commercial Operations

• Provide disease state, product, and ongoing therapy management education upon request, in consumer friendly language to the Rett community, which may include patients, caregivers, and/or other care team members. Caregiver engagement may take place before, during, and after therapy initiation, through various formats, including in-person, telephonic, and/or virtual interactions.
• Determine individual needs of patients and caregivers and serve as an ongoing resource to provide appropriate education and resources accordingly, throughout the various stages of the patient journey.
• Collaborates with and provides support for the entire assigned territory, which consists of multiple internal cross-functional partners (Marketing, Sales, Patient Access Team, Medical Affairs, Advocacy, and others), and may require coverage of multiple states. Supports and communicates educational opportunities with cross functional partners, as appropriate.
• Possess expert knowledge and provide insights to internal stakeholders including, but limited to, training leads, marketing partners, advocacy, medical and leadership, in an effort to develop tools and resources to address educational gaps, enhance disease state education, and therapy management strategies to patient families/caregivers.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge of disease state, product, and Acadia Customer Support Programs, such as Hub-related and Patient Assistance Programs, and ambassador speaker programs, etc.
• May moderate, lead and present caregiver speaker programs as needed, and attend community events within assigned territory.
• Provide in-service to physician offices reactively, to educate about the Family Support Educator role, patient support resources provided to caregivers, pre and post enrollment in the program, and foster a dialogue between caregivers and healthcare providers.
• Identify and execute on opportunities to provide leadership within the Family Support Educator team and with cross functional partners.
• May provide formal mentorship and/or development opportunities with new Family Support Educator team members, and/or to cross functional colleagues interested in Patient Support Services.
• Identify training and development opportunities related to Patient Support Services and the broader organization.
• Ensures that all actions, both internally and externally, working on Acadia’s behalf are in compliance with all laws, regulations, policies and demonstrates Acadia values.

Manager

• Report directly to the Regional Business Leader, ensuring alignment with the overarching goals and strategies of the sales team.
• Build trusted relationships with healthcare providers, offering expert insights and ensuring they have the tools to start patients on appropriate therapies.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with target HCPs to enhance awareness of the assigned therapeutic area, including the safety and efficacy of Acadia’s products.
• Deliver MLR-approved, education-focused messages, equipping HCPs with tools to facilitate robust patient conversations.
• Cultivate and maintain strong connections with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and relevant stakeholders in your territory.
• Analyze sales potential and optimize your outreach to maximize results, while working within budget and compliance guidelines.
• Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams to align strategies and deliver exceptional support to patients and providers.

Medical Science Liaison / Senior Medical Science Liaison

Senior Family Support Educator

Executive Neuroscience Sales Specialist

Associate Director, Medical Writing

Associate Flex Neuroscience Sales Specialist

Executive Neuroscience Sales Specialist

Senior Medical Science Liaison, Rare Disease

Senior Manager, Quality Assurance

Senior Manager, Quality Assurance

Family Support Educator

Neuroscience Sales Specialist

Senior Manager/Associate Director, Commercial Operations

Family Support Educator

Area Business Manager

Neuroscience Sales Specialist