Associate Scientific Director
Description
- Education: PhD in life sciences or PharmD
- Experience: ≥ 3 years professional medical writing experience in a scientific communications agency
- Independent and accurate medical writing on a variety of medical communication projects which execute on the medical strategy
- Provide strategic writing support for publication and medical communication plans
- Attend scientific/client meetings and provide pre- and post-meeting materials as needed
- Verbal and written internal communication (eg, project status) and external communication (eg, clients and authors)
- Mentor junior staff, providing content review
- Participate in providing project support input such as scheduling and prioritizing tasks
- Contribute to defining solutions to client challenges and facilitate organic growth in accounts
- Contribute to new business development as needed
- Willingness to travel (~15%)
- Able to independently handle wide range of complex projects with multiple timelines
- Expertise in multiple therapeutic areas
- Understand marketing strategies and able to contribute to development of medical communication plans
- Strategic thinking with ability to contribute to custom solutions for client challenges and drive organic growth
- Excellent work product requiring minimal internal review
- Demonstrable experience with providing scientific direction and content review
- Excellent communication skills and ability to facilitate client/author interactions and strategic conversations related to project and account asks
- Excellent problem-solving and interpersonal skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and reference management software (eg, Endnote, Reference Manager)
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