Associate Director, Publications, Early Vaccines + Immune Therapies

Join us at AstraZeneca, where you'll have the chance to create a difference in people's lives every day. As an Associate Director, Publications in our Early Vaccines and Immune Therapies group, you'll play a pivotal role in implementing our scientific strategy. We're pushing the boundaries of science to deliver life-changing medicines to patients, with a passion for discovery and a pipeline to show for it. We're industry-leading in immunology, protein engineering and translational science. We offer an outstanding and strong collaborative network as part of the AstraZeneca family.

Accountabilities:

The Associate Director, Publications, is accountable for the development and execution of strategic publication plans for pipeline products entering and already in early clinical development (preclinical, translational, medical evidence, and clinical up to Phase 2). In this role, the Associate Director needs a strategic mindset and scientific curiosity to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders including scientists, investigators, journal editors, and conference committees to execute publication activities. The Associate Director will have the opportunity to lead cross-functional publication planning teams, ensuring publications plans align to the product strategy, while ensuring all publications represent a transparent and fair balanced communication of data.  

• Lead cross-functional publications planning teams and day-to-day management of multiple assigned publication plans 

• Ensure project alignment with product strategy / scientific narrative and communications objectives 

• Advise scientific teams on preclinical, translational, clinical, and medical evidence studies on publication aspects throughout study planning and execution 

• Participate in product, clinical and medical team committees, delivering publication updates as needed  

• Manage responsible products’ publication plan-related financial forecasting and tracking 

• Manage the output, compliance and budget of medical communication agencies  

• Ensure compliance with AZ / external publication standards and transparency requirements 

• Manage, track and document publications appropriately and accurately using publication management system   

• Drive adoption of new publication guidelines, standards and technologies 

Essential requirements 

• Demonstrated experience (3–5 years) in medical communications gained through working in the pharmaceutical industry or a medical communications agency 

• Bachelor’s degree in the biological or health sciences 

• Familiarity with the drug development