Senior Scientific Associate (Medical Education)

About VML

VML is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth. VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners including AstraZeneca, Colgate-Palmolive, Dell, Ford, Microsoft, Nestlé, The Coca-Cola Company, and Wendy's. The agency is recognized by the Forrester Wave™ Reports, as a Leader among Marketing Creative and Content Service Providers, Commerce Services, Global Digital Experience Services, Global Marketing Services and, most recently, Marketing Measurement & Optimization. In addition, VML’s specialist health network, VML Health, is one of the world’s largest and most awarded health agencies. VML’s global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets, with principal offices in Kansas City, New York, Detroit, London, São Paulo, Shanghai, Singapore, and Sydney.

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About VML Health: 

VML HEALTH is a global healthcare agency that partners with healthcare clients across a broad definition of health, from high science to wellness and everything in between. It operates fluidly within the VML agency, as a core group of health specialists (a ‘vertical’) that has the benefit of autonomy in management, but with support of non-health expertise. 

At the heart of health is the story of life – all the highs and lows, ambitions, and possibilities. But facing a health challenge can suddenly pull people away from these stories, knocking them off course.

Our purpose is to bridge this gap, bringing people closer to life and all its meaning. We gain a deeper understanding of Healthcare Professionals’ and patients’ needs, behaviors and lived experiences through what we call ‘radical empathy’.

VML Health creates connected brands that get to the heart, bringing people closer to the lives they want to live.  Get to the heart. Connect for life.

International Meetings and Science (IMsci), a division of VML Health, works with companies to build world-class healthcare and pharmaceutical brands among medical professionals and consumers, with a transmedia storytelling approach that covers medical education strategies.

What we're looking for:

The Senior Scientific Associate will collaborate with scientific, account, and editorial teams to ensure scientific integrity across client projects and new business endeavors. This role supports all project phases, from brainstorming and research to content creation and revision.

What you’ll do:

• Read, interpret, and distill complex scientific information from medical journals and clinical study reports for scientific and marketing messages.
• Assist in creating scientific content.
• Conduct literature searches.
• Research physician opinion leaders, medical journals, and conferences.
• Incorporate client and editorial changes into documents.
• Attend scientific/client meetings with senior team members.
• Build professional relationships with key opinion leaders.
• Liaise with clients and fulfill their requests.
• Partner with account services and editorial teams.
• Adhere to internal processes on all projects.
• Expand knowledge of the medical communications industry.
• Support other teams on important/rush projects.

Who you are:

• Highly organized and detail-oriented.
• Curious about the medical education/communication field.
• A willing learner with excellent interpersonal and listening skills.
• A team player with a strong work ethic, sound judgment, and effective time management skills.
• Willing to work overtime, travel, and attend off-hour events within reason.

What you’ll need:

• Advanced degree in biomedical sciences (MD, PhD, Pharm D).
• 1-2 years of experience at a medical communications agency.
• Strong professional writing experience in biosciences/medical fields.
• Beginner to intermediate skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, internet search, and PubMed.

What we offer:

• Passionate, driven people | We champion a culture of people that do extraordinary work.
• Consciously cultivated culture | We aim to embody the behaviors to build an inclusive community that is in it together, bringing both positivity and ac