About This Role

As the Patient Advocacy Lead for Biogen Latin America North (LAN), you will play a key role in shaping and advancing patient advocacy strategy across priority markets.This role is designed for a high-potential professional ready to step into greater leadership responsibility by leading patient advocacy strategy and partnerships, rather than managing people.

You will build and sustain meaningful relationships with patient advocacy organizations, align advocacy initiatives with business and therapeutic priorities, and ensure patient perspectives are thoughtfully integrated into broader strategies. Working closely with community partners, internal stakeholders, and Business Units, you will help strengthen Biogen’s commitment to patient-centered innovation across LAN.

This role requires strong business acumen, strategic thinking, and communication skills, along with a passion for advocacy and collaboration. You will lead national, regional, and local advocacy efforts across multiple therapeutic areas, contributing to impactful outcomes for patients and caregivers throughout the region.

What You’ll Do

• Identify and lead high-impact patient advocacy initiatives that enhance patient support and improve outcomes.

• Develop and execute patient advocacy strategies and best practices for engagement with patients, caregivers, and community stakeholders.

• Act as a key partner to Brand Teams and cross-functional stakeholders, integrating patient advocacy insights into broader strategic plans.

• Build and maintain compliant, transparent relationships with patient organizations, ensuring alignment with company policies and ethical standards.

• Lead planning and oversight of the patient advocacy budget, ensuring responsible use of resources and clear tracking of outcomes and impact.

Who You Are

You are motivated by improving the patient experience and are ready to take the next step in your career by owning strategy and leading workstreams independently. You build trust easily with internal and external stakeholders and communicate with clarity and confidence. You enjoy working in a collaborative, matrixed environment and are comfortable influencing without formal authority.

You bring a strong sense of integrity and accountability to your work, ensuring transparency and ethical decision-making in every engagement. You are proactive, curious, and eager to grow your leadership capability while making a meaningful difference for patients.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Public Relations, Marketing, Communications, Business Administration, Political Science, or a related field.

• Advanced proficiency in English (written and verbal).

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in patient advocacy, market access, government relations, or related roles within healthcare or biopharmaceutical environments.

• Demonstrated experience leading patient-focused initiatives or programs, with accountability for outcomes.

• Solid understanding of healthcare systems and experience supporting strategies that improve patient access.

Preferred Skills

• Experience collaborating cross-functionally within a matrixed or regional organization.

• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather, interpret, and apply patient insights and trends to strategy.

Job Level: Management

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.