Director, Medical Affairs (Field, Strategy And Engagement)

Title: Director, Medical Affairs (Field, Strategy and Engagement)

Location:Brisbane, CA

About Us:

Vera Therapeutics (Nasdaq: VERA), is a late-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for serious immunological diseases. Vera’s mission is to advance treatments that target the source of immunologic diseases in order to change the standard of care for patients. Vera’s lead product candidate is atacicept, a fusion protein self-administered as a subcutaneous injection once weekly that blocks both B lymphocyte stimulator (BLyS) and a proliferation inducing ligand (APRIL), which stimulate B cells and plasma cells to produce autoantibodies contributing to certain autoimmune diseases, including IgA nephropathy (IgAN), also known as Berger’s disease and lupus nephritis. In addition, Vera is evaluating additional diseases where the reduction of autoantibodies by atacicept may prove medically useful. Vera is also developing MAU868, a monoclonal antibody designed to neutralize infection with BK Virus, a polyomavirus that can have devastating consequences in certain settings such as kidney transplant. For more information please visit: www.veratx.com.

Our values are the cornerstone of our culture. Our values inspire us every day and guide everything we do—from how we hire great people, to advancing our mission together, to achieving our ultimate goal to improve medical treatment for patients suffering from immunological diseases.

Position Summary:

We seek a Director, Medical Affairs (Field, Strategy and Engagement) to join an experienced, fast-paced, and collaborative team. Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs, this role will be designed to work both in the field establishing a broad group of KOLs as well as collaborating in headquarters Medical Affairs activities. The role will help establish a long-term vision and strategy for the Medical Affairs division at Vera Therapeutics. While preparing to scale, the role will partner and closely support the Senior Vice President, Medical Affairs, Vice President, Commercial Strategy, and the Senior Director, Medical Affairs, on key areas, not exclusive of: KOL engagement strategy, congress Strategy and operations, disease state education, medical education, building key relationships (internally and externally), and support Phase III clinical trials. While focusing on developing relationships with the external scientific and medical community, this role will also work collaboratively with cross-functional teams in clinical development, commercial, compliance, and other key functional areas.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other members of the Medical Affairs team with regard to key activities including congress planning and development of educational programs.
• Engage with KOLs through 1:1 meetings (both face-to-face and virtual) as well as at congresses, advisory boards, delivering proactive disease state education, and reactive product, and clinical trial data discussions.
• Build a territory plan and establish key relationships with external communities, such as KOL’s.
• Support cross-functional medical pre-launch processes to ensure launch readiness and medical excellence.
• Develop and align advisory board Strategy and participate in advisory board meetings with health care providers.
• Involved in the planning and execution of educational activities at key scientific congresses, development of manuscripts, presentations, symposia, and posters, and helps develop the Medical Affairs congress strategy at both the National and Regional level, in collaboration with the medial affairs team.
• Other duties as assigned.
• May travel up to 40% as needed.

Qualifications:

• PharmD, PhD., in Life Sciences, or M.D.
• Minimum 5 years Medical Affairs experience.
• Experience in facilitating external relationships, as well as a track record of success interacting with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of organization and externally.
• Strong background in immunology or renal diseases.
• Excellent leadership and influencing skills with ability to think creatively and innovatively.
• Team-player comfortable in fast-moving, dynamic environments.

Vera Therapeutics Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Vera Therapeutics is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices and we strive to provide employees with total compensation packages that are market competitive. The starting base pay range for this position is $235,000 per year. The exact base pay offered for this role will depend on various factors, including but not limited to the candidate’s geography, qualifications, skills, and experience.

At Vera, base pay is only one part of your total compensation package. The successful candidate will be eligible for an annual performance incentive bonus, new hire equity, and ongoing performance-based equity. Vera Therapeutics also offers various benefits offerings, including, but not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401k match, flexible time off, and a number of paid holidays.

COVID-19 Policy

Vera’s top priority is the health and safety of our employees, their families and the communities where they live and work. As part of our commitment to health and safety, we require all U.S. employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If your role at Vera requires you to work or otherwise be on Vera’s premises, full or part-time, we require our employees to comply with Vera’s mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy (currently requiring full vaccination). Anyone unable to be vaccinated, either because of a sincerely held religious belief or a medical condition or disability that prevents them from being vaccinated, may request a reasonable accommodation with Human Resources. Your employment is also subject to ongoing compliance with the mandatory vaccination policy and all other Vera policies, as they may be modified from time to time, at the sole discretion of Vera.

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