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Every role in our organization carries profound purpose; whether you're in research, operations, access, or support, your contributions impact patients. We're seeking passionate professionals who thrive in high-stakes environments, uphold rigorous quality standards, and share our relentless commitment to transforming the lives of patients. Join us in making the impossible possible, where your expertise becomes a catalyst for life- changing treatments.\nThe Director, Field Operations, is responsible for driving the effectiveness, execution, and operational excellence of customer-facing teams. The individual will translate strategy into execution by leading initiatives across field reporting, targeting and alignment, performance management, and operational cadence, ensuring field teams are equipped with the right infrastructure, tools, processes, insights, and operational partnership to execute effectively. This role serves as the operational engine for field readiness, field execution, and launch performance optimization across customer-facing teams.\nWe anticipate this role will require up to 40% travel, including to our Lexington office.\nKey Result Areas (major duties, accountabilities and responsibilities)\nField Planning & Architecture\nLead the design and implementation of field force deployment strategies, in partnership with field leadership and aligned with business objectives and market dynamics.\nLead annual and ongoing field planning analyses, including territory design, alignment, and customer targeting to maximize market coverage and business impact.\nLead field targeting and call planning processes to drive field engagement and performance against quarterly and annual objectives.\nTranslate field design, account segmentation, and targeting logic into field-ready CRM workflows, call plans, execution guidance, and KPIs.\nPlan and execute major and minor field realignments end to end, scenario modeling, decision support, change management, and on-time deployment.\nPerformance Management\nEstablish and monitor KPIs to assess field effectiveness, identify performance trends, and recommend actions to improve execution.\nSupport defining field-facing dashboard and reporting requirements, and partner with Business Insights & Analytics to design, deliver, and validate the reporting tools that enable data-driven field decision-making.\nDeliver actionable insights that support performance management, forecasting, segmentation, and strategic planning.\nPartner with Business Insights & Analytics and field leadership to define standardized analysis and reporting templates for Quarterly Business Reviews.\nCRM, Field Technology & Operational Enablement\nWorking with Business Insights & Analytics, serve as the field business owner of the CRM (Veeva) and field-facing tools.\nTranslate field enhancement requests that are submitted to and built by Business Insights & Analytics.\nEnsure field adoption and use of these systems align with company policies and regulatory requirements.\nField Operations Infrastructure\nOversee field credentialing processes to ensure timely and compliant healthcare system access for field personnel, including vendor management, record accuracy, and escalation handling.\nLead the selection, onboarding, and ongoing management of fleet program vendors (e.g., Motus or equivalent), partnering with Finance, HR, and Procurement to ensure a cost-effective, compliant, and field-ready vehicle program. Define reporting requirements that provide visibility into credentialing compliance, fleet utilization, and field operational performance, partnering with Business Insights & Analytics on delivery.\n\nIncentive Compensation & KPI Frameworks\nLead incentive compensation operations in partnership with field leadership, Finance, HR, Legal, Compliance, and Business Insights & Analytics.\nOwn IC governance, plan operations, goal-setting inputs, payout operations, issue resolution, documentation, and field communications.\nSupport leadership decision-making with clear operational insights on IC effectiveness, field behavior, execution quality, and launch performance signals.\nCross-Functional Leadership & Influence\nOperate as a high-impact individual contributor, influencing and aligning stakeholders across the Customer & Strategy Team\nDrive a culture of operational excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement across field-facing functions.\nEnsure all field operations activities are conducted in compliance with applicable regulations, industry standards, and company policies.\nQualifications & Skills\nBachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.\n10+ years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, specialty care, or commercial operations with at least 5+ years from within Field, Sales, Commercial Operations or Sales Force Effectiveness Experience supporting product launches and pre-launch planning within biotechnology or specialty pharmaceutical organizations.\nStrong expertise in territory design, CRM systems (as a field business owner), incentive compensation, commercial analytics, and field force effectiveness.\nExperience in rare disease is a must and gene therapy experience strongly preferred.\nDemonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and drive complex, cross-functional initiatives in fast-paced, high-stakes environments.\nThe estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant, relevant years of experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from where they will be performing the job. The actual base salary offered will be in accordance with state or local minimum wage requirements for the job location.\nUS Salary Range\n$205,000—$265,000 USD\nuniQure is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact .\n uniQure posts all open positions exclusively on our official Careers page and LinkedIn. We do not recruit through any other job boards, third-party websites, or unsolicited outreach via text or messaging apps. All legitimate communication from uniQure’s Talent Acquisition team will come from an @uniqure.com email address. We will never request financial information nor payment of any kind during the application process. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from uniQure, do not respond or share personal information. Inquiries can be made via .\nuniQure processes personal data submitted through this application for recruitment and hiring purposes only. Depending on your location, you may have specific rights regarding your personal data. 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