Senior Manager, Medical Affairs

The American Diabetes Association (ADA) is seeking a Senior Manager, Medical Affairs to support the development, coordination, publication, and dissemination of ADA’s evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, consensus reports, scientific statements, and other scientific and clinical resources. This role will work closely with ADA staff, cross-functional teams, expert committees, professional societies, key opinion leaders, authors, reviewers, and other external stakeholders. The ideal candidate will bring strong scientific communication, project management, stakeholder engagement, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex initiatives and support the development of high-quality evidence-based guidance.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support the development of clinical practice guidelines, consensus reports, scientific statements, and related scientific publications from initiation through publication and dissemination.
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, deliverables, and action items to ensure projects remain on schedule.
• Coordinate and facilitate expert committees, scientific panels, working groups, authors, reviewers, and external stakeholders involved in guidance development.
• Organize and support high-profile virtual and in-person scientific meetings, including agendas, meeting materials, presentations, minutes, action items, and stakeholder communications.
• Build and maintain productive relationships with internal teams, professional societies, sponsors, clinical and scientific experts, and key opinion leaders.
• Maintain project documentation, forms, and other required records in accordance with ADA policies, support reference management.
• Draft, review, revise, proofread, and quality-check scientific manuscripts, recommendations, and supporting materials for accuracy, clarity, consistency, and adherence to ADA standards.
• Coordinate committee, expert, peer, leadership, publication, and production reviews, including manuscript submission, proof review, author queries, and reference verification.
• Develop and maintain materials using platforms such as SharePoint, Basecamp, and Smartsheet and contribute to post-publication resources, including slide decks, executive summaries, educational materials, and communications.
• Collaborate with Medical Affairs and cross-functional partners, including Publications, Communications, Legal, Digital, and Education, to support organizational priorities.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree required in public health, health education, community health, health sciences, biomedical sciences, or a related discipline; advanced clinical or scientific degree preferred.
• Relevant experience in medical affairs, clinical practice guideline development, scientific communications, health care, public health, academic medicine, professional medical associations, or a related setting preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate scientific and clinical information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Experience facilitating committees, expert panels, working groups, or multidisciplinary stakeholder groups preferred.
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a collaborative, team-oriented environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook; experience with Smartsheet, Basecamp, SharePoint, EndNote, or similar platforms preferred.

Why Work Here
The American Diabetes Association ® (ADA) offers a rewarding career working for one of the premier voluntary health organizations in the world supporting people living with diabetes and/or obesity. Our employees consistently say that our mission, culture, work-life balance, and total rewards package are what they like most about working at the ADA. benefits and our culture:

• Industry competitive base pay. Base offers are determined by several factors including but not limited to your relevant work experience, education, certifications, location, internal pay equity, etc.
• A culture of recognition including new hire welcome announcements, service anniversary awards, referral bonuses, monthly All Employee Assembly, appreciation awards
• Generous Paid Time Off, including holidays, vacation days, personal days and sick days
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), disability & life insurance, pet insurance, and retirement savings
• Guided by our mission, we provide full diabetes supply coverage through our medical benefits program
• A company focus on offering mental health programs and work/life balance with most of our employees working remote
• Joining our dedicated team affords the gratification of knowing beyond a doubt that you will impact the lives and well-being of millions

About the Organization
The American Diabetes Association ® (ADA) is the nation’s leading voluntary health organization fighting to end diabetes and helping people living with diabetes thrive. Since 1940, we have driven discovery and research to prevent, manage, treat, and ultimately cure diabetes. We advocate for policy changes and improved access to quality care for all people living with diabetes and/or obesity. Through the Obesity Association, a division of the ADA, we are also working to reduce the prevalence of obesity—a leading risk factor for type 2 diabetes.