Patient Advocacy Director - Washington, DC

Lantheus is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts with offices Canada, and Sweden.  For more than 60 years, Lantheus has been instrumental in pioneering the field of medical imaging and has helped physicians enhance patient care with its broad product portfolio. 

Lantheus is an entrepreneurial, agile, growing organization that provides innovative diagnostics, targeted therapeutics, and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that empower clinicians to find, fight and follow disease.  At Lantheus our purpose and values guide our behaviors in all interactions and play a vital role in creating a dynamic environment that contributes to our success.  Every employee is crucial to our success; we respect one another and act as one knowing that someone’s health is in our hands.  We believe in helping people be their best and are seeking to bring together a diverse group of individuals with different viewpoints and skill sets to be a part of a productive and inclusive team. 

Summary of Role:

The Patient Advocacy Director will be responsible for developing and leading patient advocacy and engagement strategies across the Lantheus portfolio. They will establish long-term and strategic alliances with key patient groups. They will connect various internal functions – such as Medical Affairs, Access, Commercial, R&D – to patients and will represent the patient voice internally.  

Key Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• Serve as the primary connect with advocacy groups and patient communities
• Establish and leverage strategic relationships with key Patient Advocacy Groups (PAGs)
• Identify mutually beneficial opportunities between Lantheus and PAGs particularly related to efforts around medical/scientific, regulatory, and policy priorities.
• Develop, with internal partners, compliant patient information that educates and informs on relevant disease states that will result in meaningful discussions between patients and their healthcare providers
• Provide insights to inform the Brand Team development of educational materials for patient engagement and patient support services that address unmet needs within the patient community in the US
• Bring the “voice of the patient” and understanding of the external healthcare environment to internal teams
• Develop and implement strategic patient advocacy plans and activities by collaborating with cross-functional partners including medical, commercial/marketing, legal, compliance, communications/PR, and market access.
• Leads external third-party agency implementation of patient advocacy and stakeholder initiatives, including on-going reporting, analysis and evaluation of programs. Collaborate and lead stakeholder identification, outreach and collaboration in support of business priorities and needs.
• Oversee grant and sponsorship requests
• Understand and integrate regulatory, reputational, and commercial considerations as appropriate into all workflows, and ensure compliance with internal policies and external regulations in all program planning and execution.
• Ensure key activities are implemented in a timely manner and that activities are prioritized in line with strategic focus of LMI and the organization.
• Understands and works fluidly with other disciplines to ensure communication programs integrate with other functions (medical, commercial, legal, and regulatory) and that there is consistency of messaging and strategy.

Essential Capabilities/Competencies:

• Demonstrated ability to develop strategies aligned to overall business goals and clear metrics to measure success
• Ability to build relationships at a high-level with patient advocacy groups, professional associations and other stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate impact on patient care by working in a cross functional environment and to handle multiple tasks
• Confident personal presence and experience managing and hosting live activities/programs
• Results driven and exercises exceptional judgment
• Routine overnight travel based on business need and frequent weekend work may be required

Minimum Skills, Experience and Education

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree required, an advance degree would be a plus.
• Minimum of 10 years of related experience in industry positions, experience with patient advocacy organizations and professional societies.
• Minimum 5 years of patient advocacy experience
• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory compliance environment impacting the advocacy and patient communities and pharma/bio industry
• Passion for patients and research
• Strong leadership skills and sense of teamwork
• Ability to work effectively in and across the management structure, and to collaborate and contribute to highly functioning and geographically diffuse teams
• Strong planning and organization skills with the ability to set priorities effectively and efficiently, and the ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders simultaneously
• Excellent strategic planning abilities
• Excellent communications and presentation skills; and ability to write well and to present information to internal and external audiences in a clear and concise manner

Preferred:

• Experience in hospital-based and clinic-based products
• MBA
• Experience with PET imaging, Neurology, Urology and/or Oncology
• Clinical and/or technical discipline knowledge (e.g. an in-depth understanding of medical imaging modalities, related disease states, treatment paradigms, and future trends)

Core Values:

The ideal candidate will embody Lantheus core values:

• Let people be their best
• Respect one another and act as one
• Learn, adapt, and win
• Know someone’s health is in our hands
• Own the solution and make it happen

Lantheus is committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. Lantheus is an E-Verify Employer in the United States. Lantheus will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities, in accordance with applicable law.

Any applicant requiring an accommodation in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should make a request to the Lantheus Talent Acquisition team at talentacquisition@lantheus.com

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