Director, Medical Strategy, US Rare Emergency Medicine

Critical Needs. Immediate Action.

SERB is a fast-growing global specialty pharma company designed to address rare and urgent conditions by delivering life-saving medicines when time and complexity leave no room for failure.

We operate end-to-end across 100+ countries, ensuring 70+ essential medicines for rare diseases, emergency care, and medical countermeasures reach patients and clinicians with urgency – wherever and whenever they are needed. Shaped over the past 25 years by an entrepreneurial, disruptive spirit, SERB combines the focus and agility of a biotech with the scale, reach, and reliability of a global pharmaceutical company — always grounded in medical purpose, not corporate convention.

Our 600+ employees are driven by three core values:  

• Patients first, always
  Patients are not a concept — they are why we act, especially when time matters most.
  
• Impact focused
  We are agile, entrepreneurial, and disciplined - working smart and learning continuously to deliver results that matter, with the consistency, quality, and trust that critical care demands.
  
• Team powered 
  We go the extra mile - together - because our shared commitment drives extraordinary outcomes.

Guided by a clear ambition and a relentless focus on patients, SERB continues to expand through selective, innovative acquisitions, launching new treatments and entering new geographies.  Across every step — from integration to delivery — our people act with passion, ownership, and determination to ensure life-saving medicines become available to patients who need them, worldwide.

Broad Overview 

The Director, Medical Strategy – Rare Emergency Medicine will serve as a key member of the US Medical team, responsible for developing and executing the integrated medical strategy for the company's Emergency Medicine portfolio. This strategic leader will collaborate cross-functionally with Clinical Development, Commercial, Regulatory, Market Access, and other key stakeholders to ensure successful development, launch, and lifecycle management of innovative therapies addressing high unmet medical needs.

As Director, Medical Strategy, your responsibilities will include:  

• Develop and drive the US Rare Emergency Medicine medical affairs strategy for rare and emergency medicine assets, from early clinical development through commercialization and post-marketing.

• Lead efforts to seek expert insights, scientific engagement, generate real-world evidence, develop publication strategies, and support investigator-initiated research to address key scientific and clinical questions.

• Serve as the senior medical voice to KOLs, medical societies, and advocacy groups. Lead the development of advisory boards and scientific exchange strategies.

• Partner with Clinical Development, Regulatory Affairs, and Commercial teams to ensure strategic alignment, especially around data dissemination, launch readiness, and product positioning.

• Oversee development of scientific communication platforms, core medical content, and field medical training to ensure consistency and accuracy across regions.

• Develop and execute omnichannel medical marketing strategy aligned to support the brand vision for each asset within the Rare Emergency Medicine Portfolio.

• Play a pivotal role in product launch planning and execution, ensuring robust medical support and evidence generation for regulatory approvals and market access.

• Act as the medical expert for our Emergency Medicine business unit

• Design, implement and leverage transfer of knowledge and advisory initiatives

• Facilitate Investigator Initiated research/study (IIS) medical requests

• Lead engagement at medical and scientific meetings and symposia to maintain awareness of current issues and new data pertaining to assigned products and to communicate scientific information

• Take part, communicate and collaborate within SERB US Leadership Team to ensure alignment and drive performance

The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list, and you may be required to undertake any other reasonable duties compatible with your experience and competencies. This description may be varied from time to time to reflect changing business requirements. 

To be successful in this role, you should demonstrate:  

• PharmD, MD, PhD

• 10+ years of medical affairs and/or MSL experience

• Experience in managing and leading field Medical team (MSLs) would be desirable

• Proven track record in acute care / hospital medical affairs

• Demonstrated understanding and strategic application of medico-marketing, customer insights and account management

• Experience in KOL management, advocacy and scientific society engagement

• Cardiovascular or Surgery Therapeutic area experience is preferred

• Self-motivated with leadership abilities and excellent communication skills

Company Benefits

• Hybrid Working

• Vacation, Personal and Sick time

• 15 Paid Company Holidays

• Medical, Dental, Vision and other Voluntary benefits

• Paid Parental Leave

• Tuition Assistance

• Discretionary Bonus Plan

• Competitive 401(k), $1 for $1 up to 6% of pay. The safe harbour match is vested immediately. In addition, SERB also offers a discretionary match of up to 4% of pay which vests 20% a year for 5 years.

Serb Pharmaceuticals is an equal opportunity employer. We offer competitive compensation & benefit packages, challenging opportunities and a culture of working together in a supportive way built on our strong foundation of values.