# Senior Director, Medical Affairs

**Company**: Formation Bio
**Location**: NYC, NY
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $325,000 - $425,000
**Category**: Medical Affairs
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Formation Bio is seeking a Senior Director, Medical Affairs to build and lead Medical Affairs capabilities across its growing portfolio.

The Senior Director will serve as a strategic scientific partner to Clinical Development, Regulatory, Commercial, and Portfolio teams, ensuring that Medical Affairs strategy, scientific exchange, and evidence generation are embedded early and executed with rigor, compliance, and credibility.

Responsibilities:

- Medical & Scientific Strategy: Lead medical affairs and scientific strategy across assigned programs, from late development through pre-launch and commercialization readiness.

- External Scientific Engagement: Develop and execute a comprehensive KOL engagement strategy, building durable relationships with external experts, investigators, and scientific leaders.

- Publications & RWE: Own publication planning and execution, ensuring timely, compliant dissemination of clinical and real-world data.

- Medical Affairs Build-Out: Establish scalable medical affairs processes, governance, and operating models appropriate for a multi-asset organization.

- Launch & Cross-Functional Partnership: Support launch readiness through medical education strategy, scientific positioning, and internal training.

- Patient & Advocacy Engagement: Develop strategy for engagement with patient advocacy groups and medical societies to inform development, education, and access.

Requirements:

- 10+ years of experience in Medical Affairs and/or Clinical Development within biopharma or biotech, with increasing leadership responsibility.

- Advanced scientific or clinical degree (PhD, PharmD, MD, or equivalent) strongly preferred.

- Demonstrated experience developing and executing medical strategy across late development, pre-launch, and commercialization.

- Experience building or scaling medical affairs capabilities, including MSL teams.

- Deep understanding of medical compliance, scientific exchange regulations, and industry best practices.

- Strong cross-functional partner with experience working closely with Clinical, Regulatory, Commercial, and Portfolio teams.

- Track record of credible external engagement with KOLs, investigators, and scientific stakeholders.

- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear strategic insights.

- Hands-on leadership style with comfort operating in a fast-growing, resource-lean environment.

Total Compensation Range: $325,000 - $425,000

## Skills

### Required
- Medical Affairs
- Clinical Development
- Scientific Strategy
- KOL Engagement
- Publication Planning
- Medical Compliance

### Nice to have
- Advanced scientific or clinical degree
- MSL team management
- Cross-functional partnership

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