What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Director, Scientific Communications position at Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals?
The Senior Director, Scientific Communications is the key driver responsible for developing and implementing a publication strategy aligned across the multiple disciplines within the Kiniksa organization. It is of critical importance to liaise with the internal team to ensure the publication strategy incorporates relevant, data-driven, disease and product messages. The priority is to ensure that key pre-clinical and clinical scientific information is disseminated to the medical community appropriately and timely while ensuring plans are fully integrated with congresses and subject matter expert (SME) development plans. Responsibilities include leading and/or directing the planning, writing, reviewing, editing and production of scientific abstracts, manuscripts, review articles, presentations, etc. In this role, it is important to engage and develop relationships with internal as well as external stakeholders such as clinical investigators, SMEs and consultants.
Job Responsibilities:
- Conduct a strategic analysis across the portfolio to review existing and planned clinical data and identify any unmet data needs, define the publication planning objectives and confirm relevant stakeholders
- Hire, develop and manage a team, as appropriate, to execute the Company’s publication strategy and meet important timelines/deadlines.
- Collaborate closely with Clinical Development to ensure publication priorities are aligned with the clinical strategy
- Determine appropriate publication metrics for effective internal expectations and communication
- Manage publication plans across the portfolio in collaboration with internal stakeholders to ensure consistency and medical accuracy as well as compliance with current good publication practice guidelines
- Ensure that policies and procedures applicable to scientific communications are kept current and align with good publication practices
- Develop and manage the scientific communications budget in collaboration with the head of Medical Affairs
- Provide scientific and medical expertise in the creation of abstracts, posters, presentations and manuscripts
- Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external partners and authors
- Serve as central contact to ensure efficient communication with partners and authors regarding all aspects of scientific communication and publications
- Support the development of resources that communicate medical data on Kiniksa’s products and therapeutic areas of interest such as standard response letters, unbranded disease state educational materials (e.g., slide decks) for use by field medical, and scientific training curriculum across multiple disciplines
- Attend scientific congresses as appropriate
- Present on the scientific data as appropriate
- Partner with the Global Field Medical Affairs team to determine a strategy for encore presentations and assist them in the rules of engagement for the local, regional, national, and international conferences
Education and Experience:
- Requires an advanced scientific degree (Ph.D., PharmD, MD) or relevant advanced science degree (MS, MPH)
- 15 years of experience in related fields with a concentration in medical/scientific communications, or 5 years directly in publications at a pharmaceutical/biotechnology company; prior rheumatology, immunology, cardiology and/or rare disease experience a plus
- Ability to demonstrate a solid understanding of process for submission of abstracts and manuscripts to scientific congresses and journals
- Ability to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and external authors
- Demonstrated reputation as a well-respected, dynamic team leader, player and coach
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, presentation skills, conflict management and problem-solving skills are required
- Ability to work under deadlines in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of flexibility
- Ability to effectively facilitate meetings and manage cross-functional teams
- Collaborates at all levels in the organization, including effective interface at the senior management level
- High proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook; experience with document management systems preferred
- Strong analytical skills and experience with clinical data presentation and interpretation
- Up to 20% travel
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