Associate Scientific Director

Responsibilities

• As a Associate Scientific Director, you will be responsible for accurate and high-quality scientific content across your workstream. You will be a senior scientific leader of a well-established team and will partner with the scientific and CS leads to streamline processes, manage resourcing, mentor and review work, enable high quality delivery and grow the business.  You will develop your own content across diverse publications deliverables, and oversee, support and motivate a global team of medical writers to do the same. You will develop strong client and author relationships that enable you to make great, strategy-driven suggestions. You will lead client and author calls and scientific meetings. You will have a growth mindset and work with the agency leadership on account growth and innovating our client offerings. The role offers opportunities to be a partner and trusted advisor to the client, with some travel for client meetings and events.
• The Associate Scientific Director will report to the Senior Scientific Director or VP, Scientific Services and will line manage junior members of the medical writing team.
• A number of years’ experience working in a medical writing role, including publications, within a medical communications agency environment.
• Experience writing across a broad range of deliverables and formats for a variety of medical audiences.
• Experience reviewing and overseeing other writers, ideally including line management.
• Growing leadership skills and a desire to lead a global team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with colleagues, clients and external experts.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, work to deadlines and juggle multiple projects.
• Excellent attention to detail and pride in quality control.
• Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.