Vice President Medical Affairs

About NADMED

NADMED develops NAD and glutathione assay kits and laboratory services for clinical and research laboratories. Our technology comes from research at the University of Helsinki and lets laboratories measure NAD, a metabolic and redox biomarker, from venous blood using standard laboratory equipment. We are a scale-up growing internationally, and we are now looking for a Vice President, Medical Affairs: the physician who will build our medical function and lead our work with clinicians and with pharma and biotech companies.

The role

You will have full responsibility for Medical Affairs at NADMED: its strategy, plan, budget and results. You sit on the management team and report to the CEO. You will grow the Medical Affairs function to ensure our science is usable for clinicians, and give NADMED medical credibility and access in pharma and biotech, which is a key part of the long-term corporate strategy.

You work as a peer of the Chief Scientific Officer and our commercial leads, and closely with the Head of Marketing. You start as a team of one, with agencies and external advisors to draw on, and build the team as the business continues to expand.

Responsibilities

Strategy and leadership

• Set the medical strategy and the annual medical affairs plan, own the budget and the measures, and report results to the CEO and the Board, as required.
• Bring the medical view into product, market and launch decisions, and challenge them when the evidence does not support them.
• Speak for the medical side of the company with investors and strategic partners, alongside the CEO, and build the Medical Affairs team as the company grows.

Pharma and research partnerships

• Decide with the CEO and marketing which disease areas and which pharma and biotech companies we approach first.
• Open the doors. Use your network to reach clinical development and medical affairs leaders, and be the medical lead in those conversations: how NAD is measured, and how it can be used as a biomarker in their trials.
• Lead the medical side of our research collaborations with hospitals, academic groups and companies, from study design to publication, together with the CSO.

Clinicians, experts and education

• Own our clinical materials, starting with the interpretation guide. Rewrite what clinicians find hard to use, working closely with marketing.
• Build our expert programme: identify the clinical experts who matter in each disease area, get to know them and work with them, alongside our scientific advisory board.
• Build medical education for the clinicians who order the test: modules, webinars and congress sessions anchored in the published studies that used our assay, on our own and with our partner laboratories.
• Join commercial conversations with partner laboratories as the medical voice, explain the science behind the test, and train their sales and medical teams.

Evidence, review and compliance

• With the CSO, set the clinical evidence plan: the studies, real-world data and investigator-initiated work that will show the clinical value of NAD testing.
• Act as the medical reviewer in our promotional review process, and keep what we and our partners say about the test within the evidence.
• Work with Quality and our external regulatory advisers so that every claim stays within what each market allows. Our kits are regulated differently in Europe and the US.

What we offer

The work

• A category leading technology with real patient impact. Our NAD blood test came out of research at the University of Helsinki and now runs in clinical laboratories in several countries. It is CE-marked, has published studies behind it, and biotech companies already measure NAD with us in their trials.
• A young clinical field. Our reference ranges were published in 2026, and much of the guidance on using NAD in practice is still to be written. You will lead that work.
• You will build this business area. You set the medical strategy and the way the function works. As we add laboratories, markets and pharma partners it becomes a team, and you will have built it.
• A seat where the decisions are made. You report to the CEO, sit on the management team and present to the Board, as required.
• Autonomy and trust. You run your own area in a team that works closely together, with room to grow.
• An international job in a small company. Clinicians, laboratories and pharma partners in Europe and the US, and travel to them and to congresses several times a year.
• Breadth you will not get in a larger company. In pharma and biotech this work is split between medical directors, medical advisors, clinical development and review teams. Here it is one role, and you lead it.

Pay and benefits

• Permanent contract and occupational healthcare
• Competitive salary, reviewed annually as company scales
• Phone and laptop provided
• On-site (Helsinki), remote days per week are possible alongside on-site work
• Travel insurance and covered travel costs for business trips

Requirements

• Medical doctor (completed medical degree) with a career in industry. Industry experience counts for more with us than academic rank.
• At least 5-7 years in pharma, biotech or diagnostics, most of it in Medical Affairs, including a senior role (manager, director or equivalent).
• A working network among clinical development and medical affairs leaders in pharma and biotech, and the readiness to use it for NADMED.
• Business-minded: you connect medical work to adoption and revenue, and you are at ease in commercial conversations with laboratories and pharma companies.
• A builder. You have set up a medical plan, an expert programme, clinical materials or education from little, and clinicians used the result.
• Experience as a medical reviewer of promotional and educational materials, a working knowledge of how diagnostic claims are regulated in Europe and the US.
• Experience in obesity, metabolic, neurology or rare disease, or with laboratory diagnostics and biomarkers, counts strongly in your favour.
• Fluent English. Based in Finland and to travel internationally, including to the US.

How to apply

Apply through LinkedIn with your CV. The deadline for applications is 08 December 2026.

Questions can be sent to James Lee, CEO, at james.lee@nadmed.com.