Sr. Manager, Global Publications & Medical Communications

COMPANY:

At BioCryst, we share a deep commitment to improving the lives of people living with complement-mediated and other rare diseases. For over three decades we’ve been guided by our passion for not settling for “ordinary” in our quest to develop novel medicines. We leverage our expertise in structure-guided drug design to develop first-in-class or best-in-class oral small-molecule and protein therapeutics, led by the efforts of our team of expert scientists in our Discovery Center of Excellence in Birmingham, Alabama. Our global headquarters is in Durham, North Carolina, our European headquarters is in Dublin, Ireland and our employees span the globe across sites in multiple countries. We are proud of our culture of engagement and accountability that rewards people for innovative thinking and achievement of key objectives. For more information, please visit our website at www.biocryst.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.

JOB SUMMARY:

Reporting into the Executive Director, Global Medical Communications, the Senior Manager, Global Publications & Medical Communications is a highly visible role that will be responsible for driving the tactical execution of the Publication strategy and plan and scientific communications for assigned compound(s). The scope of this role will also include accountability for executing end to end communication strategies in alignment with the Global Medical Affairs plan, scientific platforms, and internal and external medical communications-related activities, such as scientific slide decks, plain language summaries, and disease education. #LI-Remote

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead tactical and timely execution of medical and scientific publications, including development of abstracts, posters, oral presentations, manuscripts, and/or presentation for scientific/medical meetings to support execution of the Global Publication Plan for assigned compound(s). Provide support to the Executive Director in the development of a comprehensive strategic Global Publication Plan and implementation.
• Support the planning, development and submission of abstracts, posters, and manuscripts from sponsored studies. This may include review of draft content, routing and editing to align with author direction, fact/data checking, serving as liaison with biostatistics to obtain additional data, submission support and overall driving project management to meet deadlines.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to obtain feedback on medical and scientific publications, including interpretation and summarization of feedback, and identification of appropriate publication and presentation forums for data dissemination.
• Support publication meetings with relevant stakeholders, contributing to scientific/clinical concepts and discussions as required.
• Evaluate scientific information to assist in identifying new publication opportunities, including identifying gaps in the literature and propose solutions to address these needs.
• Contribute to the development of enduring communication materials, including global scientific platforms, scientific statements and lexicons, slide libraries, and scientific narratives for the disease state
• Contribute to congress activities, including content development for Clinical & Medical Affairs presence, abstracts, and congress deliverables in collaboration with cross-functional teams including Clinical Development, Field Medical, Corporate Communications, Program Leadership, Regulatory, Marketing, and Competitive Intelligence teams.
• Attend scientific conferences to ensure accurate and appropriate presentation of scientific evidence to enhance therapeutic knowledge and contribute to execution of Global Medical Affairs conference deliverables.
• Day-to Day vendor management to execute publications effectively and efficiently according to the Publications Policy and good publication practices (GPP). Provide oversight of maintenance of documents in the publication planning platform software to ensure completeness, accuracy, and integrity.
• Other duties as assigned.

 

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in a scientific discipline required, advanced degree preferred (master’s or doctorate).
• 2-4 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry or medical communications agency, primarily in Medical Affairs.
• Certified Medical Publication Professional (CMPP) credentialed preferred.
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