Associate Medical Director

Join Amplity, the full-service go-to partner of biopharma companies that delivers flexible + specialized medical + commercial services. No matter where a drug is in its lifecycle, we scale with ease to maximize resources + improve impact for all our clients. Through strategic partnerships + deep therapeutic expertise, Amplity transforms how breakthrough treatments reach the people who need them.

Associate Medical Director

General Summar:

The Associate Medical Director works with the scientific team, project managers, editorial teams, sales/marketing, and executive management to ensure the scientific integrity of all medical communications projects and new business endeavors. The Associate Medical Director is responsible for understanding complex clinical and economic data in support of the development of strategic content including, payer, pharmacy, and patient support program advisory boards and other engagements. The Associate Medical Director is responsible for providing direction to other team members in support of the development of quality, scientifically accurate branded and unbranded materials. The Associate Medical Director accomplishes this by directing and supporting team members in all phases of activities, including researching, creating and revising scientific content, reviewing content created by other team members, and brainstorming business development opportunities. The Associate Medical Director is expected to develop strong and enduring relationships with thought leaders and clients.

Essential Functions:

• Provides leadership, motivation, and direction to the Scientific Services team, as needed
• In conjunction with the accounts team, leads account activities and ensures that roles and responsibilities are clearly defined and that standard procedures are followed
• Guides the development of content, or independently writes and develops content, across a range of medical communications activities and publications in accordance with client-specific needs
• Effectively briefs all project team members on project descriptions, time allocations, target audiences, and client’s key communication points and proactively provide ideas/creative input
• Holds responsibility and accountability for ensuring the scientific quality and content integrity of proposals and content
• Acts as a key resource for account/product/deliverable expertise for the client
• Leads discussions regarding medical content with clients and thought leaders, as appropriate
• Demonstrates an understanding of industry best practices and healthcare industry guidelines and actively promotes adherence to the client and other team members
• Understands product/therapeutic area alongside client objectives to proactively provide scientific and strategic insights into communications planning and delivery
• Leads strategic medical projects, such as strategic plans, designs and moderates workshops (with some senior support), develops scientific platforms, and writes strategic medical communications plans, as required.
• Interprets and communicates clinical and economic evidence in support of developing materials that provide healthcare decision-makers with the evidence necessary to evaluate new therapies
• Leads strategic market access projects, including payer, pharmacy, and patient support program engagements and advisory boards
• Leads the development of advisory board content and generates insightful reports
• Leads development of content for peer-reviewed and client-sponsored publication supplements
• Participates in business development initiatives to generate new market access business and
• Together with the account team, provides recommendations to client in support of the organic growth of existing accounts
• Understands in-house and/or third-party data that are used to provide deeper insights on products/therapy areas/behaviors; uses of such data to support contracted projects and/or new business proposals
• Ensures that clients receive ideas, strategic recommendations, and robust scientific/clinical input to assist and challenge their thinking and planning
• Actively contributes to and reviews project specifications/cost estimates/reconciliations
• Ensures that any request for out-of-scope work is communicated to the accounts team
• Supervises some Scientific Services team members and manages freelance medical writers, as needed; participates in the screening and interviewing of new candidates for the Scientific Services team and oversees the training and growth of new Scientific Services team members, as needed
• Through effective line management, drives high performance standards across the business
• Serves as an ambassador for scientific services department at external s