Jobs at Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Leads Acadia’s commercial Veeva technology portfolio, including Vault CRM, MedComms, and PromoMats. Owns platform strategy, roadmaps, administration, integrations, releases, enhancements, compliance workflows, vendor relationships, and operational support. Partners with Commercial, Medical Affairs, IT, and external managed-service providers to translate business needs into scalable solutions, manage delivery priorities, oversee environments and testing, and drive continuous improvement across regulated GxP platforms.

Supports Acadia’s contracts group by reviewing, revising, drafting, negotiating, tracking, executing, and filing commercial agreements. Coordinates with legal counsel and business stakeholders, evaluates terms against company policies and master agreements, prepares legal documents, maintains contract records, and supports contract-related projects. The role requires extensive contracts paralegal experience, contract management system proficiency, and strong Microsoft Office skills in a high-volume biopharmaceutical environment.

Provides advanced administrative support to senior leaders, managing complex calendars, travel, meetings, events, reports, presentations, expenses, contracts, purchase orders, and departmental budgets. Coordinates cross-functional initiatives, handles confidential information, and supports operational priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Leads Acadia’s global tax function, overseeing tax planning, accounting, compliance, transfer pricing, R&D tax credits, indirect taxes, audits, and tax forecasting. Partners with executive leadership, Finance, R&D, legal, auditors, and external advisors to manage risk, support international expansion, improve processes, and optimize tax outcomes. Directs a high-performing tax organization and ensures accurate reporting, SOX controls, regulatory compliance, and effective tax strategies globally.

Leads pharmaceutical sales across a neuroscience-focused territory by promoting Acadia products to healthcare professionals, providing compliant clinical and reimbursement education, developing territory plans, building stakeholder relationships, addressing access issues, and achieving sales objectives. The role requires extensive healthcare sales experience, advanced selling skills, substantial travel, territory residency, and collaboration with internal commercial teams.

Leads EU quality control activities for pharmaceutical drug substance and drug product testing. Reviews analytical results, validates and transfers methods, authors stability protocols and reports, oversees outsourced contract service providers, and supports regulatory submissions and inspections. Manages deviations, OOS/OOT investigations, CAPAs, stability programs, analytical data trending, and cross-functional coordination with manufacturing, quality, regulatory, and external partners.

The Director, People Business Partner serves as a strategic HR advisor to assigned business groups. Responsibilities include workforce planning, organizational development, performance and compensation management, succession planning, leadership development, employee engagement, employee relations, change management, and coaching leaders. The role partners with executives and Talent Acquisition to address talent needs, supports company-wide HR programs, and requires strong employment law, communication, influencing, conflict resolution, and business partnership skills.

Leads medical content development and scientific review across Medical Affairs, Corporate Affairs, Investor Relations, Commercial, and related teams. Creates materials for scientific exchange, including presentations, congress content, and medical information resources. Evaluates literature and clinical data, ensures medical accuracy and compliance, guides MLR/MRC reviews, coordinates vendors, and advises stakeholders on therapeutic areas, labeling, regulations, and medical communication strategies.

Leads GCP quality assurance across Acadia’s clinical development portfolio. Responsibilities include planning and conducting audits of CROs, clinical sites, contract service providers, and vendors; managing audit reports, corrective actions, quality agreements, metrics, SOPs, and inspection readiness; supporting regulatory and mock inspections; advising cross-functional stakeholders on global GCP requirements; and improving quality systems and compliance processes.

Lead the enterprise AI platform and agent ecosystem, including multi-agent orchestration, reusable agent templates, self-service RAG, tool and skill registries, prompt management, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Partner with cybersecurity, architecture, governance, and business teams to deliver secure, scalable, compliant AI solutions. Drive adoption through low-code tooling, mentor engineers, and shape enterprise AI strategy across commercial, medical, R&D, and corporate functions.

Leads external R&D opportunity evaluations and scientific due diligence across neuroscience, psychiatry, and rare disease programs. Coordinates cross-functional input, develops diligence plans and integrated development scenarios, assesses scientific, clinical, regulatory, commercial, financial, and strategic factors, and translates findings into recommendations for senior leadership. Partners with Business Development on licensing, acquisitions, collaborations, and partnerships while supporting portfolio prioritization, governance materials, and consistent evaluation frameworks.

Leads European pharmaceutical supply chain operations, including finished-goods planning, S&OP, ERP transactions, inventory, distribution, regulatory compliance, serialization, market launches, supplier management, and 3PL coordination. Translates global strategies into regional execution plans, ensures product continuity and accurate reporting, develops scalable systems, manages contract manufacturers and alternate vendors, and collaborates with finance, quality, manufacturing, compliance, and external partners. The role also supports EU pharmaceutical legislation compliance and requires 15% travel.

Lead R&D data, analytics, and AI strategy to modernize platforms, governance, and insights across clinical development. Deliver benchmarking, dashboards, predictive analytics, and AI-enabled solutions to accelerate trials, improve data quality, and inform portfolio and operational decisions. Partner with enterprise IT, data engineering, and external vendors to execute roadmaps and measure business value.

Lead commercial launch readiness and execution for a new Rett syndrome product in Germany. Develop launch and business strategy, oversee marketing, PR, digital, forecasting, demand planning, CRM/territory management, and performance tracking. Coordinate cross-functional alignment (medical, market access, reimbursement) and partner with EU Commercial and GM Germany. Drive sales targets, incentive systems, budget allocation, and local execution while ensuring compliance with company procedures.

Lead and support QMS activities for EU/EEA commercial product release and distribution. Oversee batch review, deviation/CAPA/change control, audits, supplier oversight, GDP compliance, data integrity, computerized systems governance, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure product quality, patient safety, and regulatory compliance.

Lead design, implementation, and adoption of AI-enabled analytics across R&D. Build scalable analytics products, dashboards, and AI use cases for clinical development and operations. Partner with stakeholders, Digital/IT, and vendors; mentor team members and drive prototyping, deployment, and operationalization of AI-driven solutions.