p>• KOL Engagement: Engage with national, regional and local thought leaders, including emerging thought leaders, face-to-face (wherever possible) to identify and seek insight on best practices that can help simplify the patient journey • Identify and ensure training (product, disease state and compliance training) for promotional speakers and related aspects of speaker programs • Collaborate with Promotional Program Manager for speaker usage and issues • Offer feedback on nominating new speakers when applicable • Coordinate / facilitate new product and annual compliance training • Work with Marketing Team for annual speaker re-contracting • Update and track KOL engagements via Veeva/Vector KOL management platform • Collaborate appropriately with other Field teams to enable the local/account-level engagement with national, emerging and regional thought leaders: • Facilitate coordination of KOL engagements at the local level • Coordinate with field sales team, brand leads, and speaker program vendor on speaker availability and utilization • Ensure appropriate pull-through of speaker programs within allocated regional budgets • Seek, understand and relate field feedback to brand regarding promotional programming • Identify potential opportunities for institution group trainings etc. • Identify, assess and appropriately engage with regional advocacy groups and local/regional professional societies, in collaboration with Corporate Advocacy, to develop and implement AD education that helps simplify the patient journey (above-brand), from diagnosis through patient monitoring • Serve as a central point for field engagement with regional/local advocacy and professional societies • Insights to Inform Brand Strategy: Synthesize learnings, translate them into key insights and best practices, and regularly present these insights to marketing & sales leadership to help inform brand strategy, messaging, educational initiatives and promotional programs • Understand what KOLs are communicating through publications, congresses, podium presentations, 1:1 interactions, etc.