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Scientific Director
Fingerpaint GroupUnited States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Nov 2024
About the role
Position: Scientific Director I Are you a strategic thinker and a natural born leader? The MedThink SciCom team is seeking a motivated individual to provide scientific direction. You will lead medical communication projects through content review, provide final project sign off, lead a team of medical writers, as well as support new business initiatives. If this sounds like you, let us know! Our Uniqueness and Expectations of Future MedTHINKERS
- Take Ownership
- Help Colleagues Do Their Best
- Infuse Optimism And Fun
- Nurture Innovation
- Keep An Open Mind
- Exceed Expectations
- Respect Others
- PhD in life sciences or PharmD
- ≥ 5 years professional medical writing experience in a scientific communications agency
- Provide scientific direction internally to writing staff and account team and externally to clients and authors
- Lead strategic planning, including development of scientific platforms and publication plans
- Responsible for quality control of projects through content review and final sign off
- Oversee work product of multiple writers and support their professional development
- Provide writing support for medical communication projects and new business support as needed
- Work with client services team to manage project-related needs, including writer work flow, scheduling, and prioritizing of tasks
- Support project scoping and account forecasting
- Support recruitment, training, mentoring, and management of writers
- Support Director, Scientific Services in providing leadership, job performance evaluation, and career development to writing staff
- 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 play major role in development of medical communication plans
- Strategic thinking with ability to define custom solutions for client challenges and drive organic growth
- Demonstrable experience with providing scientific direction in publication accounts
- Demonstrable experience providing content review
- Excellent work product requiring minimal internal 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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