Senior Scientific Advisor, Medical Communications

(Agency Equivalent = Scientific Director, Medical Director)  

This is a remote position and candidates must be US-based. This role is not eligible for sponsorship.

The Senior Scientific Advisor is responsible for optimizing the customer relationship, developing, and delivering content according to client strategy and branding objectives. Primary responsibilities include the management of projects, development of high-quality scientific content, partnering with stakeholders to meet objectives, and ensure that client needs are met in a timely manner. 

Responsibilities:

Project Management  

• Responsible for overall strategic management and content ownership of complex, highly visible projects on specific accounts including coordination of digital and interactive content, working with content experts to validate scientific accuracy, project goals, and timelines. 
• Develop creative concepts, independently prepare, and deliver client presentations in a manner that effectively showcases the featured content as directed by client, and Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs). 
• Drive long-term planning of assigned accounts including timelines, quality assurance, SOP creation and adherence, and budget monitoring. 
• Collaborate with internal project team members to ensure client expectations are being met. 
• Monitor projects to guarantee adherence and pull-through of client strategy. 
• Synthesize client feedback for implementation by project team members. 
• Track and report on all opportunities, key milestones, support requirements, etc in Basecamp. 
• Manage and attend and lead (as-needed) relevant internal meetings, as assigned. 
• Contribute to enhanced customer service through timeliness and quality of communications and deliverables, including thorough hand-offs to internal project teams. 
• Develop and maintain working knowledge of managed products, and disease areas and the competitive landscape. 
• Develop and assist with preparation of client pitches, presentations, and metrics. 
• Manage faculty recruitment, engagement, and relationships on behalf of clients. 
• Participate in internal brainstorms, key client strategy and planning sessions, and Summit Global Health strategy/planning sessions. 

Development of Scientific Content 

• Authors/supports publication and presentation of product and disease state information in support of client strategy. 
• Designs and leads the content strategy for Summit Global Health with clients.
• Creates and presents content in a variety of media in support of client strategy and objectives. 
• Review technical documents to ensure regulatory compliance in all content created.
• Identifies, develops, recommends and/or negotiates scientifically sound, creative solutions to meet clients’ critical business needs. 
• Monitors the competitive therapeutic landscape for each client to evolve content strategies for differentiation.
• Critically reviews technical and scientific reports from external sources for inclusion as a resource for content development.
• Reviews clinical regulatory documents and communications.
• Understands trends in the scientific communication landscape for data visualization and creative social/digital content trends that Summit Global Health can consider leveraging.

Client Relations and Management 

• Manage the client relationship, setting clear expectations around deliverables and project plans. 
• Maintain regular contact with client to ensure expectations are met.
• Plan, schedule, organize team members, and prepare client update agendas and summaries to facilitate and lead client update meetings.
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