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Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do.
Department: CMO Office
Reports To: Chief Medical Officer
Location: Woburn (United States)
Level: Executive / VP
Position Summary
Azurity Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Vice President, Head of Medical – Central Nervous System (CNS) to provide senior medical and scientific leadership across Azurity’s CNS portfolio in global markets. This role is accountable for defining and executing integrated medical strategies that support scientific differentiation, clinical value, and lifecycle advancement of CNS products across development, launch, and commercialization. Reporting directly to the Chief Medical Officer, this executive will oversee a team of Medical Leads aligned to CNS brands and indications. The role will partner closely with Commercial Brand Executives and Franchise Portfolio Management to ensure medical strategy and input is embedded into brand planning, portfolio prioritization, and long-range value creation—while upholding the highest standards of scientific integrity, compliance, and patient centricity.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
CNS Medical Strategy Leadership:
- Own and drive end-to-end medical strategy for the CNS portfolio across global markets, ensuring alignment with Azurity’s enterprise medical vision and CNS-specific objectives.
- Define portfolio-level CNS medical strategic imperatives, including unmet need, disease burden, scientific differentiation, evidence requirements, and lifecycle opportunities.
- Ensure consistent medical positioning and strategic clarity across CNS brands, indications, and treatment settings globally.
Leadership of Medical Leads:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Medical Leads supporting CNS brands and programs.
- Establish clear frameworks, standards, and expectations for CNS brand-level medical strategy development, execution, and measurement.
- Ensure Medical Strategy function as highly collaborative, credible scientific experts and trusted strategic partners by Commercial Brand Executives and Franchise Portfolio leaders.
Integrated Brand & Lifecycle Planning:
- Partner closely with Commercial Brand Executives to align CNS portfolio’s medical strategy with overall brand strategy, launch planning and execution - while maintaining appropriate medical function's compliance.
- Collaborate with Franchise Portfolio Management to inform portfolio prioritization, indication sequencing and timing, formulation strategies, and long-range CNS lifecycle planning across global markets.
- Oversee medical contributions to integrated brand plans, launch readiness, post-launch optimization, and expansion strategies.
Evidence Generation & Scientific Insight:
- Guide CNS evidence generation strategies, including alignment with Clinical Development, investigator-initiated studies (IIS), real-world evidence (RWE), registries, and post-marketing research.
- Ensure CNS medical strategies are grounded in robust clinical data, patient-reported outcomes, real-world insights, and evolving standards of care.
- Leverage insights (including evolving treatment landscape and new market entrants) from MSLs, KOLs, advisory boards, and scientific congresses to continuously refine CNS medical strategy.
Cross-Functional & Executive Partnership:
- Serve as the senior medical strategy partner for CNS across Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Clinical Development, Safety, and Global Medical Operations.
- Provide medical leadership input into value, access, HTA, and reimbursement discussions for CNS products in global markets.
- Support business development, due diligence, and portfolio evaluation activities related to CNS assets.
Governance & Scientific Integrity:
- Ensure all CNS medical strategies and activities comply with global medical governance standards, regulatory requirements, and ethical principles.
- Partner with Legal and Compliance to maintain appropriate collaboration and separation between medical and commercial activities, particularly in CNS therapeutic areas with high safety sensitivity.
Executive Influence & Representation:
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Chief Medical Officer on CNS portfolio strategy, scientific risk, and opportunity assessment.
- Represent CNS Medical Strategy in senior leadership forums, governance committees, and cross-functional decision-making bodies.
- Ensure a clear, unified medical voice for CNS across global markets.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Advanced degree required: MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent medical/scientific degree.
Experience:
- 15+ years of experience in Medical Affairs strategy roles within pharmaceutical or biotech organizations.
- Expert understanding of life cycle management process.
- Demonstrated Medical launch success within pharmaceutical and/or biotech organization.
- Significant experience in CNS therapeutic areas (e.g., neurology, psychiatry, neurodevelopmental or neurodegenerative diseases).
- Demonstrated leadership of portfolio- or franchise-based medical strategy, including oversight of senior medical leaders (e.g., Medical Leads).
- Proven success partnering closely with Commercial Brand leadership and Portfolio Management in a compliant, matrixed environment.
- Experience supporting multiple CNS launches, indications, or lifecycle expansions in global markets.
Skills & Competencies:
- Deep CNS expertise with strong scientific and clinical acumen.
- Strategic portfolio-level thinking with the ability to translate CNS science into long-term medical and business value.
- Proven people leader with experience developing Medical Affairs professionals.
- Excellent executive communication, influence, and stakeholder-management skills.
- High ethical standards, patient-centric orientation, and commitment to scientific excellence.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience across neurology and/or psychiatry portfolios.
- Experience working across US and international CNS markets.
- Prior experience in organizations with franchise or portfolio operating models.
- Experience incorporating patient-reported outcomes, real-world data, or digital endpoints into CNS evidence strategies.
TRAVEL
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25–35%, as required.
PHYSICAL & MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Must be able to sit for long periods of time.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; talk and/or hear.
- May occasionally climb stairs and/or ride elevators.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Employee must be able to manipulate keyboard, operate a telephone and hand-held devices.
- Other miscellaneous job duties as required.
BENEFITS WE OFFER:
- Unlock Your Earning Potential: Join our team and be rewarded with a competitive compensation package, including an annual bonus based on company performance, that recognizes your exceptional talent.
- Sales - In lieu of annual bonuses, we offer an Incentive compensation program that allows you to earn more - even over plan.
- Fuel Your Success: Sales Only - We understand the value of your hard work and provide a car reimbursement program and gas card for both business and personal use as part of our commitment to supporting you.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: We value your well-being and offer excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage to ensure you and your family are always taken care of.
- Flexibility for Your Lifestyle: Achieve work-life balance with our hybrid work model, allowing you to work two days from home and three days in the office. Excludes Sales, Manufacturing, and some Operations positions.
- Invest in Your Future: Our Retirement Savings Plan (401K) is designed to help you secure a comfortable retirement by matching dollar for dollar up to 5%.
- Time Off That Counts: Take advantage of our generous time off policy, which offers up to 15 vacation days annually + rollover (up to 40 hours) as well as five sick/wellness days. For new employees, vacation accrual will be prorated based on your start date.
- Meaningful Time with Your Loved Ones: We close between Christmas and New Year’s to give you an extra week off to spend quality time with your family and recharge.
- Enjoy the Holidays: Over the course of the year, Azurity recognizes 13 holidays.
- Invest in Your Education: We support your professional growth with tuition reimbursement for undergraduate and graduate level courses or certifications.
- Recognize and Be Recognized: Our Azurity High Five peer recognition platform allows you to celebrate your colleagues' accomplishments and receive recognition for your own outstanding work.
The California Consumer Privacy Act regulates privacy rights and consumer protection for residents of California, United States. For details, click here. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information from individuals who live in the European Union (EU).
INTRODUCTION
Azurity Pharmaceuticals is a privately held, specialty pharmaceutical company that focuses on innovative products that meet the needs of underserved patients. As an industry leader in providing unique, accessible, and high-quality medications, Azurity leverages its integrated capabilities and vast partner network to continually expand its broad commercial product portfolio and robust late-stage pipeline. The company’s patient-centric products span the cardiovascular, neurology, endocrinology, gastro-intestinal, institutional, and orphan markets, and have benefited millions of patients. Azurity Pharmaceuticals is proud to be an inclusive workplace and an Equal Opportunity Employer. Azurity's success is attributable to our incredibly talented, dedicated team that focuses on benefiting the lives of patients by bringing the best science and commitment to quality into everything that we do.
Department: CMO Office
Reports To: Chief Medical Officer
Location: Woburn (United States)
Level: Executive / VP
Position Summary
Azurity Pharmaceuticals is seeking a Vice President, Head of Medical – Central Nervous System (CNS) to provide senior medical and scientific leadership across Azurity’s CNS portfolio in global markets. This role is accountable for defining and executing integrated medical strategies that support scientific differentiation, clinical value, and lifecycle advancement of CNS products across development, launch, and commercialization. Reporting directly to the Chief Medical Officer, this executive will oversee a team of Medical Leads aligned to CNS brands and indications. The role will partner closely with Commercial Brand Executives and Franchise Portfolio Management to ensure medical strategy and input is embedded into brand planning, portfolio prioritization, and long-range value creation—while upholding the highest standards of scientific integrity, compliance, and patient centricity.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
CNS Medical Strategy Leadership:
- Own and drive end-to-end medical strategy for the CNS portfolio across global markets, ensuring alignment with Azurity’s enterprise medical vision and CNS-specific objectives.
- Define portfolio-level CNS medical strategic imperatives, including unmet need, disease burden, scientific differentiation, evidence requirements, and lifecycle opportunities.
- Ensure consistent medical positioning and strategic clarity across CNS brands, indications, and treatment settings globally.
Leadership of Medical Leads:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Medical Leads supporting CNS brands and programs.
- Establish clear frameworks, standards, and expectations for CNS brand-level medical strategy development, execution, and measurement.
- Ensure Medical Strategy function as highly collaborative, credible scientific experts and trusted strategic partners by Commercial Brand Executives and Franchise Portfolio leaders.
Integrated Brand & Lifecycle Planning:
- Partner closely with Commercial Brand Executives to align CNS portfolio’s medical strategy with overall brand strategy, launch planning and execution - while maintaining appropriate medical function's compliance.
- Collaborate with Franchise Portfolio Management to inform portfolio prioritization, indication sequencing and timing, formulation strategies, and long-range CNS lifecycle planning across global markets.
- Oversee medical contributions to integrated brand plans, launch readiness, post-launch optimization, and expansion strategies.
Evidence Generation & Scientific Insight:
- Guide CNS evidence generation strategies, including alignment with Clinical Development, investigator-initiated studies (IIS), real-world evidence (RWE), registries, and post-marketing research.
- Ensure CNS medical strategies are grounded in robust clinical data, patient-reported outcomes, real-world insights, and evolving standards of care.
- Leverage insights (including evolving treatment landscape and new market entrants) from MSLs, KOLs, advisory boards, and scientific congresses to continuously refine CNS medical strategy.
Cross-Functional & Executive Partnership:
- Serve as the senior medical strategy partner for CNS across Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Clinical Development, Safety, and Global Medical Operations.
- Provide medical leadership input into value, access, HTA, and reimbursement discussions for CNS products in global markets.
- Support business development, due diligence, and portfolio evaluation activities related to CNS assets.
Governance & Scientific Integrity:
- Ensure all CNS medical strategies and activities comply with global medical governance standards, regulatory requirements, and ethical principles.
- Partner with Legal and Compliance to maintain appropriate collaboration and separation between medical and commercial activities, particularly in CNS therapeutic areas with high safety sensitivity.
Executive Influence & Representation:
- Act as a trusted advisor to the Chief Medical Officer on CNS portfolio strategy, scientific risk, and opportunity assessment.
- Represent CNS Medical Strategy in senior leadership forums, governance committees, and cross-functional decision-making bodies.
- Ensure a clear, unified medical voice for CNS across global markets.
QUALIFICATIONS
Education:
- Advanced degree required: MD, PharmD, PhD, or equivalent medical/scientific degree.
Experience:
- 15+ years of experience in Medical Affairs strategy roles within pharmaceutical or biotech organizations.
- Expert understanding of life cycle management process.
- Demonstrated Medical launch success within pharmaceutical and/or biotech organization.
- Significant experience in CNS therapeutic areas (e.g., neurology, psychiatry, neurodevelopmental or neurodegenerative diseases).
- Demonstrated leadership of portfolio- or franchise-based medical strategy, including oversight of senior medical leaders (e.g., Medical Leads).
- Proven success partnering closely with Commercial Brand leadership and Portfolio Management in a compliant, matrixed environment.
- Experience supporting multiple CNS launches, indications, or lifecycle expansions in global markets.
Skills & Competencies:
- Deep CNS expertise with strong scientific and clinical acumen.
- Strategic portfolio-level thinking with the ability to translate CNS science into long-term medical and business value.
- Proven people leader with experience developing Medical Affairs professionals.
- Excellent executive communication, influence, and stakeholder-management skills.
- High ethical standards, patient-centric orientation, and commitment to scientific excellence.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience across neurology and/or psychiatry portfolios.
- Experience working across US and international CNS markets.
- Prior experience in organizations with franchise or portfolio operating models.
- Experience incorporating patient-reported outcomes, real-world data, or digital endpoints into CNS evidence strategies.
TRAVEL
- Willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 25–35%, as required.
PHYSICAL & MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Must be able to sit for long periods of time.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; talk and/or hear.
- May occasionally climb stairs and/or ride elevators.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Employee must be able to manipulate keyboard, operate a telephone and hand-held devices.
- Other miscellaneous job duties as required.
BENEFITS WE OFFER:
- Unlock Your Earning Potential: Join our team and be rewarded with a competitive compensation package, including an annual bonus based on company performance, that recognizes your exceptional talent.
- Sales - In lieu of annual bonuses, we offer an Incentive compensation program that allows you to earn more - even over plan.
- Fuel Your Success: Sales Only - We understand the value of your hard work and provide a car reimbursement program and gas card for both business and personal use as part of our commitment to supporting you.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: We value your well-being and offer excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage to ensure you and your family are always taken care of.
- Flexibility for Your Lifestyle: Achieve work-life balance with our hybrid work model, allowing you to work two days from home and three days in the office. Excludes Sales, Manufacturing, and some Operations positions.
- Invest in Your Future: Our Retirement Savings Plan (401K) is designed to help you secure a comfortable retirement by matching dollar for dollar up to 5%.
- Time Off That Counts: Take advantage of our generous time off policy, which offers up to 15 vacation days annually + rollover (up to 40 hours) as well as five sick/wellness days. For new employees, vacation accrual will be prorated based on your start date.
- Meaningful Time with Your Loved Ones: We close between Christmas and New Year’s to give you an extra week off to spend quality time with your family and recharge.
- Enjoy the Holidays: Over the course of the year, Azurity recognizes 13 holidays.
- Invest in Your Education: We support your professional growth with tuition reimbursement for undergraduate and graduate level courses or certifications.
- Recognize and Be Recognized: Our Azurity High Five peer recognition platform allows you to celebrate your colleagues' accomplishments and receive recognition for your own outstanding work.
The California Consumer Privacy Act regulates privacy rights and consumer protection for residents of California, United States. For details, click here. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information from individuals who live in the European Union (EU).
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Get Access To All JobsMedical Sales Representative CPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Medical Sales Representative role qualify for CPT?
Yes, if your academic program in business, health sciences, or a related field includes a practical training component tied to sales or healthcare industry experience. Your DSO evaluates whether the specific job duties connect to your curriculum. Roles involving product education, clinical account management, or territory development typically satisfy this requirement when your course catalog supports it.
Can I do CPT for a medical sales role that requires driving a company vehicle?
CPT authorization covers the employment itself, not incidental job requirements like driving. You'll need a valid U.S. driver's license independently of your immigration status. Most medical sales roles list a driver's license as a hard requirement, so confirm you can obtain one in your state before accepting an offer, since this isn't something your DSO can resolve.
How do I find Medical Sales Representative employers who are familiar with CPT?
Search Migrate Mate's job listings filtered for F-1 CPT-eligible roles in medical sales. Employers who have filed Labor Condition Applications in the past are generally more comfortable navigating work authorization paperwork. Regional distributors and smaller device companies often process CPT students faster than large pharmaceutical multinationals with centralized HR compliance teams.
Does full-time CPT as a Medical Sales Representative affect my future OPT?
Yes. If you accumulate 12 or more months of full-time CPT, you lose eligibility for OPT entirely. Part-time CPT, meaning under 20 hours per week, has no impact on OPT regardless of duration. Medical sales roles that require full-time field hours can consume your OPT eligibility quickly, so plan your CPT duration carefully with your DSO before signing an offer.
What documents do I need to start CPT for a Medical Sales Representative job?
You need a signed offer letter showing your employer's legal name, address, job title, start date, and weekly hours. Your DSO uses these details to update your I-20 with the CPT authorization before your first day. Some employers also ask for a copy of your updated I-20 and your EAD documentation before processing your new hire paperwork, so request your updated I-20 the moment you receive the offer.