Vice President, Medical Affairs

Company: Clinical-Stage Cell Therapy Biotechnology Company
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Employment Type: Permanent

The Opportunity

Brio has partnered with a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing innovative cell therapies to recruit a Vice President, Medical Affairs.

This executive will establish and lead the Medical Affairs strategy, connecting evidence generation, scientific communications, field medical engagement, and medical information with the needs of healthcare professionals, investigators, patients, and advocacy communities. The Vice President will build scalable capabilities that support the company’s clinical portfolio and readiness for future regulatory and commercial milestones.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the Medical Affairs strategy across the organization’s cell therapy portfolio.
• Build medical plans aligned with clinical development, regulatory, and corporate priorities.
• Establish and scale Medical Affairs capabilities, infrastructure, processes, and governance.
• Lead and develop Medical Affairs professionals across field medical, medical information, scientific communications, and evidence generation.
• Develop an integrated evidence-generation strategy encompassing real-world evidence, investigator-sponsored research, collaborative studies, and data-gap identification.
• Build relationships with key opinion leaders, investigators, treatment centers, patient advocacy groups, and other external stakeholders.
• Lead scientific communication priorities, including publications, congress activities, advisory boards, and educational initiatives.
• Oversee field medical strategy, insight collection, scientific exchange, and communication of actionable intelligence to internal stakeholders.
• Ensure medical information activities provide accurate, balanced, timely, and compliant responses.
• Collaborate with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, Market Access, Commercial, and Corporate Communications.
• Contribute medical expertise to product strategy, indication planning, patient identification, treatment-center readiness, and launch preparation.
• Represent Medical Affairs in executive leadership, portfolio governance, and external scientific forums.
• Ensure all activities comply with applicable legal, regulatory, and industry standards.

Qualifications

• MD, PharmD, PhD, or another advanced scientific or medical degree relevant to the portfolio.
• Significant Medical Affairs experience within the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry.
• Senior leadership experience defining medical strategy, building teams, and managing Medical Affairs functions.
• Demonstrated success supporting clinical-stage programs through major development, regulatory, or launch-readiness milestones.
• Strong experience with evidence generation, scientific communications, publications, congress strategy, advisory boards, and KOL engagement.
• Experience developing or leading field medical and medical information capabilities.
• Strong understanding of compliant scientific exchange and the appropriate boundaries between Medical Affairs and Commercial activities.
• Proven ability to influence portfolio decisions and lead effectively across a matrixed organization.
• Excellent scientific judgment, executive communication, and external relationship-management skills.
• Cell therapy, gene therapy, hematology, oncology, immunology, or rare-disease experience is strongly preferred.
• Experience establishing Medical Affairs capabilities within an emerging biotechnology company is highly desirable.
• Ability to work within a hybrid structure in the Boston area.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

• Medical direction: Shape the strategy, priorities, and operating model for a growing Medical Affairs organization.
• Cell therapy innovation: Support the advancement of potentially transformative therapies for patients with serious diseases.
• Evidence leadership: Define how clinical, real-world, and external evidence will support the portfolio.
• Organizational impact: Build capabilities and develop the medical leaders required for future growth.
• Milestone influence: Help prepare the organization for important clinical, regulatory, and potential commercial milestones.

Interested?

Submit your resume to Brio to learn more about the company, its cell therapy portfolio, and the position. Additional details regarding compensation, benefits, and the complete job description will be provided following an initial resume review.

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