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Alexion

Global biopharmaceuticals focusing on rare diseases

Thought Leader Liaison - US Nf1 PN

Full-TimePosted on 10/21/2026Deadline 11/4/26
$174.5k - $261.7k/yr+ Short-term incentive bonuses + Equity-based awards
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's, MBA
Houston, TX, USA+3 moreMore locations: Nashville, TN, USA | Miami, FL, USA | Atlanta, GA, USA
In PersonField-based role; travel exceeds 50%, including significant overnight and weekend travel.
Growth & MarketingProduct Marketing

About the job

Requirements
  • Seven or more years of work experience in biotechnology.
  • A bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
  • Experience in at least one of field sales, product marketing, or thought leader engagement.
  • Working knowledge of thought leader engagement practices.
  • Clinical, technical, and scientific knowledge and aptitude in complex disease states.
  • Ability to execute strategic and tactical plans under short timelines.
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills and organizational abilities.
  • Ability to organize and plan independently.
  • Ability to collaborate and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
  • Proven ability to manage a large geographical territory.
  • Must live within the assigned territory or within 150 miles of the territory border.
  • Valid driver's license and clean driving record.
  • Willingness to travel more than 50% of the time, including significant overnight and weekend travel.
  • Ability to travel by public transportation, automobile, train, or plane; work comfortably in a clinical setting; use a computer; communicate via phone, video, and electronic messaging; problem-solve; engage in complex and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; and maintain general availability during standard business hours, with or without accommodation.
Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain key opinion leader engagement plans for thought leaders.
  • Plan and execute national and regional congress engagement plans, focusing on meaningful engagements with senior leadership and supporting marketing initiatives.
  • Monitor key opinion leader insights about current and future treatment patterns that may affect commercial strategy, and provide feedback for consideration.
  • Act as a liaison between key opinion leaders and Alexion for on-label activities, including coordination with office-based cross-functional colleagues and teams.
  • Assist in facilitating and executing commercial advisory boards by identifying key advisors equipped to provide insights.
  • Align with field partners, such as Medical Science Liaisons, on complementary initiatives involving shared customers.
  • Work with Marketing and Sales Management to identify and recruit key opinion leaders for national and regional faculty and speaker bureaus.
  • Train physician speakers on approved promotional slide decks.
  • Develop physician speakers to provide high-quality promotional education.
  • Ensure appropriate and compliant execution of speaker programs.
  • Monitor speaker performance at live programs.
  • Work with marketing and contracted speakers to gather and synthesize feedback supporting promotional programming content evolution, case studies for potential publications, and other commercial projects.
  • Provide input and support in developing account plans.
  • Address customer service issues and identified needs, and coordinate cross-functional action plans to address on-label issues as needed.
  • Work with cross-functional teams to provide key customer insights and input on strategy, tactics, messaging, and program execution.
  • Perform duties with professionalism and in accordance with the company's Code of Ethics and Business Conduct.
Desired Qualifications
  • Graduate degree (MSc, MSN, or MBA).
  • Rare disease experience.
  • Prior experience and relationships within endocrinology.
  • Prior experience in marketing or thought leader engagement.

About the company

Alexion focuses on discovering, developing, and selling therapies for rare and ultra-rare diseases by targeting the complement system. Its drugs, such as Soliris and Ultomiris, inhibit C5 to block inflammatory cascades, while Strensiq and Kanuma treat metabolic and lysosomal disorders. The company combines in-house R&D with acquisitions to expand its portfolio and leverages AstraZeneca’s global scale to reach patients. Its goal is to improve outcomes for patients with rare diseases and bring these therapies to international markets at premium pricing.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Founded

1992

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What believers are saying

  • AstraZeneca's July 2026 half-year revenue rose 9%, driven partly by Alexion's rare-disease growth.
  • Ultomiris gained FDA Priority Review on June 15, 2026 for IgAN, with Q4 2026 decision.
  • Koselugo's November 2025 adult NF1 approval and ALXN2220 phase 3 expand the pipeline.

What critics are saying

  • EmblemHealth's April 2025 Soliris antitrust suit targets patent settlements and biosimilar delays.
  • Soliris faces biosimilar erosion after March 2025, while Ultomiris still depends on C5-franchise switching.
  • Ultomiris carries meningococcal boxed warnings; a single fatal infection can trigger litigation and prescribing pullback.

What makes Alexion unique

  • Alexion pioneered complement biology, turning C5 inhibition into approved medicines since Soliris, 2007.
  • Ultomiris, Soliris, Strensiq, and Koselugo span hematology, nephrology, endocrinology, and oncology-adjacent rare diseases.
  • AstraZeneca's 2021 acquisition gives Alexion global commercialization scale and deeper trial funding.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Disability Insurance
  • Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Flexible Work Hours
  • Remote Work Options
  • Paid Vacation
  • Paid Sick Leave
  • Paid Holidays

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Schlieren-based startup, Neurimmune, which develops drug candidates for central nervous system (CNS) and related protein aggregation diseases, has, in collaboration with its partner Alexion, advanced its drug candidate ALXN2220 into phase 3. This marks a significant step in the company’s journey to addressing the serious clinical condition ATTR-CM.  Transthyretin-mediated amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) is an underdiagnosed, systemic clinical condition that leads to progressive heart failure and high rate of fatality within four years from diagnosis. Despite recent advances in slowing disease progression, there is currently no treatment available to deplete cardiac ATTR amyloid and revert cardiac dysfunction. Schlieren-based startup, Neurimmune, which develops drug candidates for central nervous system (CNS) and related protein aggregation diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, frontotemporal dementia and ATTR cardiomyopathy, is currently testing a drug candidate, ALXN2220 (formerly NI006), a human antibody targeting ATTR Cardiomyopathy. In 2022, Neurimmune entered into an exclusive global collaboration and license agreement with Alexion, AstraZeneca’s Rare Disease group, for ALXN2220. Neurimmune is responsible for completion of the phase 1b clinical study on behalf of Alexion, with Alexion incurring certain trial costs. Aside from the phase 1b trial, Alexion is responsible for further clinical development, manufacturing, and commercialization as ALXN2220. The two companies have now initiated the phase 3 of the DepleTTR-CM clinical study to assess the efficacy and safety of ALXN2220 for the treatment of ATTR-CM

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