The Role:

Reporting to the Senior Director, Thought Leader Strategy & Partnerships, the Director, Thought Leader Liaison will be a pivotal partner in Nuvalent’s growing Commercial organization. This individual will spearhead the execution of the thought leader engagement as the company prepares for the market launch of Zidesamtinib and Neladalkib. The Director will be a pivotal member of the Commercial and Marketing teams. This role will provide guidance on thought leader relationships and partnerships ensuring alignment with brand objectives and coordinating end to end relationships for the Commercial organization. This individual will also support the execution of brand strategies to ensure launch readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive Commercial engagement strategy for lung cancer thought leaders, including academic researchers, digital opinion leaders, and other key influencers.
• Collaborate with internal teams to implement commercial strategies and manage interactions with key accounts, ensuring alignment with Nuvalent’s business goals.
• Capture valuable therapeutic and competitive insights from Thought Leaders and other key stakeholders to guide impactful field insights integration that shapes positioning, messaging, and stakeholder engagement strategies
• Work closely with the Senior Director, Thought Leader Strategy to aggregate insights and determine implications to the brand and disseminate as part of the Insights Team.
• Work closely with internal teams to execute commercial launch strategies, managing interactions with Thought Leaders throughout the process.
• Identify and engage promotional speakers to represent Nuvalent at regional and national events.
• Identify and nominate promotional speakers for the brand Speaker Bureau.
• Cultivate and maintain strong, trusting relationships with Thought Leaders, ensuring they are well-informed about Nuvalent’s activities, portfolio, and strategic direction.
• Partner with Legal and Compliance teams to enforce guidelines and processes for compliant customer engagement.
• Serve as a point of coordination, facilitating connectivity across internal stakeholders in collaboration efforts to become a preferred industry partner.
• Co-lead and execute Commercial Advisory Boards in partnership with Head, Thought Leader Strategy and internal cross-functional collaborators
• Execute the Thought Leader Engagement Congress strategy.
• Support brand initiatives with KOL needs (ie. KOL videos, Peer to Peer programs, Product theaters)
• Compliantly support Field needs to include, but not limited to: KOL introductions, speaker bureau nominations, KOL expert panels at sales meetings

Competencies Include:

• Foster a culture of empowerment, collaboration, and a focus on patient impact.
• Strong scientific and clinical orientation, comfortable with data, and ability to distill complex clinical information into business implications and credible narrative with internal and external stakeholders.
• Exceptional communication and influence skills, with the ability to inspire confidence and work successfully with varied stakeholders including the Brand Team and Product Development Team.
• Proficient in multichannel marketing directed towards HCPs and patients, including digital, media, peer-to-peer, congresses, and personal promotion tactics.
• Drives for results and nurtures a performance-based culture of continuous improvement, addressing concerns and conflict proactively.
• Characteristics include being entrepreneurial, collaborative, and an energetic initiative-taker with strong interpersonal and analytical skills.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree. Advanced degree preferable
• 10+ years biopharma experience including oncology launch experience
• 3+ years as a Thought Leader Liaison in Oncology
• 5+ years of commercial oncology experience in the U.S. market, with expertise in sales, marketing, or related functions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize effectively, and communicate across all organizational levels.
• Proven track record of recruiting, onboarding, managing, coaching, and retaining top talent, with strong leadership and mentorship skills.
• Strong understanding of analytics and operations tools/technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including presentation abilities.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% domestically

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Lung cancer is highly preferrable
• Prior Thought Leader Liaison engagement and/or scientific exchange in Lung Cancer