SD​/Head of Medical Affairs

Overview

The Senior Director / Head of Medical Affairs is a foundational leadership role and will serve as Fortvita’s first dedicated Medical Affairs hire. This individual will establish, define, and scale the Medical Affairs function, shaping the medical strategy, scientific narrative, and external engagement approach for Fortvita’s oncology pipeline. As the leader of Medical Affairs, you will combine strategic leadership with hands-on execution, building medical capabilities from the ground up while serving as a trusted scientific partner to Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, Business Development, and future Commercial teams.

• Medical Affairs Leadership & Function Build-Out: Serve as the Head of Medical Affairs, owning the vision, operating model, and long-term strategy for the function.
• Medical Affairs infrastructure: Build Medical Affairs infrastructure from inception, including governance, SOPs, compliant medical engagement frameworks, and scalable executional processes.
• Talent & capability development: Recruit, mentor, and lead a high-performing Medical Affairs team, including a field medical function to support our growing clinical trials program as the organization scales.
• Hands-on leadership: Operate as a hands-on leader, directly executing on core Medical Affairs activities and deliverables while building scalable capabilities.
• Scientific Platform & Medical Strategy: Lead development and ownership of integrated scientific platforms for Fortvita’s oncology programs, ensuring consistent, credible, and differentiated scientific narratives.
• Data translation: Translate clinical, translational, and biomarker data into clear medical positioning aligned across internal and external stakeholders.
• Portfolio strategy: Provide strategic medical input into asset differentiation, lifecycle planning, and overall portfolio strategy.
• Publication Strategy & Scientific Communications: Define and execute a comprehensive and compliant publication strategy, including long-range planning for abstract submissions, authorship, strategy, and manuscript development.
• Communications & publications: Oversee development of abstracts, posters, oral presentations, and peer-reviewed publications in collaboration with internal and external authors.
• Quality & consistency: Ensure scientific rigor, accuracy, and consistency across all medical communications, including support of external partnerships and other business development activities.
• Congress Strategy & Scientific Presence: Lead global congress strategy for major oncology meetings (e.g., ASCO, ESMO, AACR), including data prioritization, scientific messaging, external engagement plans, and vendor relationships.
• Scientific presence: Establish and maintain a strong, credible, and differentiated scientific presence for Fortvita with patient advocacy groups and professional associations at key congresses and medical forums.
• Evidence Generation Strategy: Develop and oversee the global evidence generation strategy, including real-world evidence, outcomes research, and investigator-initiated studies.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner cross-functionally to ensure evidence supports scientific credibility, value demonstration, and long-term portfolio goals.
• Field Medical Organization Design: Design the Field Medical (MSL) organization strategy and operating model, including coverage approach, capabilities, engagement standards, and insights capture.
• Medical excellence: Establish medical excellence frameworks to support high-quality scientific exchange and future scale-up.
• Opinion Leader Strategy & External Engagement: Lead KOL identification, mapping, and engagement strategy across priority oncology disease states and geographies.
• Relationship management: Build and maintain strong relationships with opinion leaders, investigators, cooperative groups, and scientific societies.
• Advisory activities: Plan and execute advisory boards, expert panels, and scientific exchange initiatives.
• Cross-functional leadership: Partner with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, R&D, and Commercial/Market Access to ensure cohesive medical alignment.
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