ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Senior Director, Strategic Development – Advocacy National Lead

ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: New Jersey • United States

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Salary

💰 $230,000 - $275,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Serve as the national SD&A lead for ANI’s Portfolio, Pulmonology, and Acute Care business, ensuring consistent strategy, execution, and insight generation across therapeutic areas.
  • Develop and implement portfolio-level Thought Leader (TL) engagement strategies that align with commercial objectives while allowing for therapeutic-area nuance.
  • Provide direct managerial oversight, mentorship, coaching, and performance guidance to seven SD&A team members across the United States.
  • Lead the hiring, onboarding, and organizational integration of SD&A team members supporting ANI’s Acute Care expansion, ensuring alignment with SD&A standards and operating model.
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Legal/Compliance, Medical Affairs, Analytics, Operations, and Training teams to align portfolio strategy, prioritize initiatives, and drive cross-functional planning.
  • Lead national speaker bureau strategy, including Thought Leader identification, contracting oversight, prioritization, and impact evaluation.
  • Ensure effective national oversight of congress strategy and participation, including SD&A presence at major meetings and alignment to portfolio objectives.
  • Manage national insight aggregation and synthesis, ensuring timely, strategic routing of insights to brand teams and senior leadership.
  • Set and evolve the national SD&A operating model, defining priorities, ways of working, and expectations across the portfolio.
  • Establish functional goals and success measures to ensure high-quality execution, insight value, and organizational effectiveness across the SD&A organization.
  • Identify, develop, and retain top SD&A talent, proactively managing performance, development plans, and succession readiness.
  • Champion innovative, compliant approaches to Thought Leader engagement that advance SD&A impact across therapeutic areas.
  • Involved with Sponsorships and Patient Advocacy Organizations for the purpose of enterprise-wide coordination (not tactical) of specific functional activities.
  • Operate in accordance with ANI’s code of conduct and all policies and procedures, maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct and compliance.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of commercial experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry with a similar including leadership in strategic field marketing or franchise-level TL engagement.
  • Experience managing direct reports and leading field-based SD&A or comparable strategic engagement teams required.
  • Bachelor's degree in life sciences, pharmacy, or a related field; advanced degree is strongly preferred.
  • Experience leading or supporting Thought Leader engagement within at least one of the following therapeutic areas is strongly preferred: Rheumatology, Nephrology, Neurology, Pulmonology, or Acute Care.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate effectively at a national, enterprise leadership level.
  • Proven track record in developing and implementing Thought Leader strategies through compliant and engaging interactions via existing and meaningful relationships.
  • Travel: Willingness to travel nationally, including weeknights and weekends, to attend meetings and industry events (~40%).
Benefits
  • health insurance coverage
  • life and disability insurance
  • retirement savings plans
  • paid leave programs
  • paid holidays
  • paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
strategic field marketingThought Leader engagementinsight aggregationperformance guidanceportfolio strategycongress strategycomplianceorganizational integrationtalent developmentnational oversight
Soft Skills
leadershipmentorshipcoachingcollaborationcommunicationstrategic planningorganizational effectivenessinnovationrelationship managementperformance management
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in life sciencesBachelor's degree in pharmacyadvanced degree in related field