Associate Director, Global Medical Communications, Mature Brands

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Job Description

Objectives:

• The Associate Director, Global Scientific Communications, Mature Brands, is a dynamic, strategic role within Global Medical Affairs that collaborates with cross-functional partners to own one or more disease areas / assets on a Global level.

• Cross-functional leader responsible for the resource/ budget allocations, strategic co-development, prioritization, and execution of medical communication plans encompassing tactics such as: core content, scientific communication platforms, HCP education, congress activities, digital initiatives, and communications planning.

• Leads medical review of promotional and non-promotional materials.

• Demonstrates subject matter expertise on GMA tactics, solid understanding of TA strategy, ability to influence internal and external stakeholders, capability in guiding major technical and methodology efforts in application to business, expertise in industry trends beyond GMA.

Accountabilities:

Manage Global Medical Communications planning and execution for mature brands.

• The Associate Director, Global Medical Communications is a key decision maker in asset level medical communication strategies and implementation.

• Owns Medical Communication initiatives, ensuring quality and timely delivery against medical plans.

• Actively manages asset resourcing and budgets to ensure quality and timely delivery against medical communication plans and that the asset’s budget stays on track of financial targets.

• Proactively interfaces with cross-functional teams to provide scientific leadership and technical expertise across a disease state area, contributing to launch and life-cycle management of a medical unit.

• Owns, drives, and prioritizes diverse medical communication tactics related to core content (e.g. slide decks), scientific communication platforms (SCP), HCP education (e.g. symposia), congress activities (e.g. medical booth), digital initiatives (e.g. webinars), and communication planning (e.g. integrated communications plans).

• Solution-oriented approach to inefficacies and organizational challenges that contributes to continuous improvement through identifying newer standards and industry trends.

• Advises Group Lead on methods to elevate performance of goals and delivery of medical communications plans.

• Mentorship or matrix management of global medical communications colleagues, fellows, and other team members.

Conduct medical aspects of Material Review and Approval

• Work with Legal and Regulatory colleagues to resolve questions and provide leadership in concept design and approval of promotional and non-promotional materials.

Additional Aspects of the Role:

Technical/Functional (Line) Expertise

• Subject matter expert in core Medical Communications deliverables (scientific platform, lexicon, core slide decks, communication plan, etc) and can independently drive updates/revisions to these materials.

• Scientific and technical expertise of the assigned therapeutic area(s)/product(s).

Leadership

• Cross-functional leader and influential decision maker that has direct impact on assets and functions.

• Owns GMC plan for assigned asset(s) and able to work with GPT, LOCs, MCE, Region/LOCs, and Medical Strategy team to effectively prioritize activities encompassing a diverse range of assets in line with global asset strategy.

• Proactively creates and implements sub-strategies to enable promotio