Medical Director, Clinical Partnerships
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Medical Director leading physician engagement, clinical governance, and drug-list strategy. Representing Leap’s employer specialty pharmacy platform to providers, manufacturers, and health plans.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as Leap's physician champion for provider engagement
- Lead peer-to-peer conversations with prescribing providers to support coordinated, timely care and drive member activation
- Own the clinical side of the provider escalation workflow
- Provide immediate physician availability to resolve safety and clinical-policy objections and re-engage patients closed due to provider pushback
- Build credibility with external prescribers through familiarity with Leap's programs and clinical positions
- Provide physician-level sign-off on clinical protocols and drug list decisions
- Anchor the Clinical Governance Committee and lead P&T-style decision-making
- Direct clinical strategy for the Specialty Drug List and Preferred Drug List program
- Build and maintain relationships with medical societies, clinical leaders, physician groups, patient advocacy organizations, and relevant healthcare institutions
- Represent Leap's clinical position to manufacturers, specialty pharmacies, infusion centers, and health plan partners
- Serve as Leap's credentialed clinical voice in manufacturer and health plan partnership discussions
- Support expansion into new specialty and therapeutic areas as a recognized clinical authority
- Partner with Clinical Strategy & Affairs to translate clinical judgment into operational policy
- Set the clinical standard for protocol and drug list sign-off
- Partner with Clinical Operations, Client Success, Sales, Marketing, and Manufacturer Relations on provider workflows and program design
- Advise executive leadership on clinical trends, stakeholder priorities, and provider-community opportunities
- Report to the Senior Director, Clinical Strategy & Affairs
Requirements:
- MD or DO with an active, unrestricted U.S. medical license
- Residency trained
- 5+ years of clinical practice experience
- Comfort operating in a non-patient-facing, cross-functional role
- Comfortable operating with autonomy and helping shape a growing function
- Effective communication skills
- Demonstrated ability to lead credible physician-to-physician (peer-to-peer) conversations with prescribers
- Experience owning or contributing to clinical protocols, formulary/drug list, or P&T-style decisions
- Comfort representing a clinical position to external stakeholders such as manufacturers, specialty pharmacies, or health plans
- Board certification preferred
- Experience with specialty drugs, biosimilars, or infusion-administered therapies preferred
- Managed care, utilization management, or medical-necessity experience preferred
- Prior health plan, PBM, or manufacturer-facing experience preferred
- Experience building a clinical function or voice from the ground up preferred
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
- Must not require visa sponsorship to work in the United States
Benefits:
- Stock options/equity
- Competitive total rewards package
- Benefits
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