Associate Medical Director, Medical Strategy & Scientific Affairs
BGB Group (BGBx)About the role
About Us
At BGBx, we're driven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking creates breakthrough impact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges.
Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day.
If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx.
Position Overview
The Associate Medical Director is the Medical Brand lead on their brand(s) and is responsible for the development and strategic alignment of medical content with brand objectives. The Associate Medical Director is the primary medical contact for the client and is responsible for the scientific accuracy, quality, and timeliness of all ongoing projects for the brand. The Associate Medical Director acts as mentor for Medical Writers/Senior Medial Writers and may have managerial responsibilities (direct reports).
Responsibilities
Content Development & Execution:
- Is accountable for all assigned projects; assumes greater volume than SMW or MW
- Oversees and creates content for a brand, including reviewing content developed by SMW/MW for scientific accuracy and alignment to strategy/client objectives before senior team review
- Writes and annotates content as appropriate
- Ensures that all projects, including those led by direct reports, meet external and internal timelines and agreed to deadlines
- Keeps track of all ongoing projects and learns how to assess and escalate when resource needs are anticipated
Planning:
- Understands the brand strategy space and proactively provides recommendations regarding planned projects to internal and external team
- Acts as primary medical voice during external kickoff meetings for assigned projects, working with manager to obtain answers to all medically-relevant kickoff questions
- Fully understands BGBx processes and is responsible for assessment of time required for project completion across complete range of BGBx deliverables
Client Interface:
- As primary client-facing Medical Brand Lead, takes ownership of medical portion of client or KOL calls, advisory boards, and onsite meetings
- Communicates directly with clients and KOLs to provide feedback on status of medical work and asks clarifying questions when necessary
- Attends client/review meetings to answer queries, capture comments, and support client in presenting new ideas/concepts or defend agency work
- Builds rapport with clients and maintains client trust through provision of strategic recommendations
- Partners with manager and Account team to provide the client with a strategically aligned BGBx team on teleconferences and in person
Agency Interface and Process:
- Oversees communications about status of projects owned by self and direct reports to manager
- Communicates with internal Medical/Account teams when sick days or vacation are needed to ensure proper coverage for expected or potential emergency work that may arise
- Communicates outside of working hours when necessary
- Models BGBx process throughout all aspects of day-to-day work, including project planning, content development and routing, and internal communications
- Acts as Medical Brand Lead during internal meetings and can accurately assess and communicate time needed to complete projects to greater brand team, and shared services
Local (tri-state) client engagement travel as needed/required.
Preferred Qualifications
We’re looking for smart, talented, and driven individuals who are interested in applying their scientific training to drug development strategy and scientific knowledge exchange. We’re looking for individuals who would enjoy working on a range of projects, including traditional “left-brained” projects (complex scientific analysis) and traditional “right-brained” projects (creative, innovative communications). Our ideal candidates are detail-oriented and team-focused, with excellent interpersonal communication and leadership skills
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