Medical Director - Medical Communications

Client & Team Interactions

• In partnership with CS/AM, serve as the medical leader, scientific expert, responsible for ensuring quality and rigor, scientific pertinence, and strategic alignment
• Provide scientific, tactical, historical, and strategic expertise during pitches, meetings, and discussions with client and team.
• In collaboration with CS/AM, monitor and direct work cross functionally within scope and budget
• Supportive leadership driving multiple projects and accounts
• Independently create high quality content, execute exceptional research to support internal or external endeavors, and exceeding client expectations
• Maintain medical, legal, and regulatory expertise and support others in achieving it
• Review and ensure consist high quality content achieving strategic objectives
• Build relationship with clients through regular and consistent engagement in meetings
• Collaborate with applicable cross functional teams to support internal timelines. Ensure work is executed within budget and on time.
• Coach and train Medical/Scientific employees and/or contractors to exemplify Petauri Advance values, anticipate client issues, help them solve issues and provide contingency plans, as necessary.
• Ensure capacity is used efficiently, including reaching out to team members to support when under capacity, and overseeing opportunity to fill capacity of reports

Business Development

• Provide scientific expertise and market guidance to support proposals, ensuring scientific accuracy of content
• Present ideas that leverage capabilities and novel solutions during pitches to stay competitive
• Assist in development and maintenance of relationships for new business opportunities
• Support business development efforts by leveraging strategic understanding of client products and disease states
• Partner with clients to identify additional needs based on client strategy, EG, brand planning

Staffing

• Mentor junior teammates and may have direct reports
• Aid in building and mentoring proficient, competitive teams that provide medical content and strategic expertise in multiple therapeutic areas
• Assists with interviews and review of writing tests, providing input regarding hiring decisions
• Train new team members and identify opportunities for growth within the Medical/Scientific team
• Provide leadership and encourage/develop team-centric staff; provides feedback cross functional development
• Support development and implementation of processes for the Medical/Scientific Team
• Lead solutions for cross-functional level dynamics and issues
• Align workload and assignments to skill
• Delegate responsibilities and supervise the work product as needed to achieve quality and timelines
• Identify needs regarding additional support and manage contractors
• Routinely report project status and resourcing schedules to department head(s) to make and adjust department-related forecasting and decisions and propose solutions to department head(s)

Company

• Engage with vendors as needed
• Exemplify company culture, values, policies, operating objectives, and standards of performance and take accountability for achieving company goals
• Communicate and maintain trust relationships with employees, cross-functional partners, and clients
• Maintain a positive and professional attitude as a representative of Petauri Advance
• Analyze problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions

Competencies

• Established knowledge in various disease state markets
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills and ability to synthesize complex or diverse information
• Strong attention to detail and ownership of quality; ability to steer team toward higher quality
• Curious and creative mindset with a willingness to provide innovative suggestions to benefit the company and our clients
• Ability to take initiative, communicate clearly and work collaboratively in a dynamic, remote environment
• Strong working knowledge in pharmaceutical and biotech industries and medical communications
• Strong understanding of a variety of medical communications deliverables; ability to design novel solutions
• Able to work calmly under high pressure and prioritize effectively in a rapidly changing environment. Able to communicate changes in a timely manner to the appropriate team(s) (e.g., changes in deadlines, timelines, client requests, etc.).
• Excellent presentation skills both verbal and written communications to the intended audience
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback for continuous improvement
• Strong familiarity with AMA Manual of Style guidelines
• Highly proficient with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook), Adobe Acrobat, and Veeva Vault preferred
• Strong problem-solving abilities in demanding situations and has the ability to influence others
• Proactively takes accountability for work and cross functional relationships
• Demonstrates Petauri Advance values and assists others in aligning to culture
• Ability to build and maintain external relationships by being attentive to their needs
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities to inspire the team and appropriately set the vision for the organization.
• Strong ability to work through conflict by encouraging open communication, thinking strategically, and delegating effectively
• Ability to lead others and delegate work

Education and Experience

An advanced science or clinical degree (eg, PhD, MBBS, MD, PharmD, RN, RPh) or a lesser degree with significant relevant experience is required. A minimum of 5 years of work experience in an agency, the pharmaceutical industry, or a related scientific or medical writing position. At least 3-5 years of experience leading medical communications accounts in various disease states. Preferably at least 2-3 years of experience in management. Business development, mentoring other writers, leading client-focused teams, and client partnering a must. Demonstration of success in pitching new products to potential clients is a plus. #LI-Remote