Associate Director, Scientific Innovation

Brief Description

Associate Director, Scientific Innovation (SI)

Reports to: Director or Vice President, SI

The Associate Director, SI is critical to the overall organizational client experience, as they are the scientific lead for internal and client teams. Their ability to plan, develop, and strategically create scientific content in a compelling manner consistent with the end audience is key to their success. This position is responsible for collaborating with internal team leads and supporting and mentoring members of the SI team. They must be able to proactively assist clients with new strategy direction and lead business development from a scientific perspective.

Requirements

Essential Functions

• Create and support scientifically sound, clinically relevant, and strategically positioned content to meet client needs
• Strategically evaluate and provide insight on drugs, disease states, and the market
• Lead multiple projects with groups of SI teammates to produce quality deliverables
• Oversee and mentor work performed by other SI team members, including research into targeted disease states and products, and production of scientific message content
• Maintain medical, legal, and regulatory expertise and support others in achieving it
• Initiate, maintain, and expand client relationships and business opportunities based on scientific knowledge, strategic expertise, and company experience
• Support, lead, and mentor internal client–focused cross-functional teams scientifically and strategically
• Develop relationships with external experts and strategic partner organizations as needed to support business vision
• Master relationships with faculty advisors through collaboration on publications, advisory board meetings, and speaker training initiatives
• Support business development efforts through leveraging strategic understanding of client products and disease states
• Support other team members in literature reviews and searches, fact checking, and writing reports and summaries from notes when needed
• Support client work by traveling to live events and meetings (up to 20%)
• Support FORCE as a content and strategy expert to influence and reinforce the corporate vision and direction
  
  

Competencies

To Be Successful In a Position, An Individual Must Not Only Perform The Essential Functions Of The Job But Also Demonstrate Expertise. The Following Are Essential To Success

• Exemplification of FORCE attributes: This is the essence of FORCE. Every member of the team embodies these characteristics. These attributes include passion for success, accountability, sound judgment, adaptability, professionalism, creativity/innovation, ethical work with integrity, quality, and caring
• Proficient/advanced communication skills: The ability to communicate effectively is vital to success. These skills include speaking and writing clearly and effectively balancing both listening and speaking in conversations and meetings, presenting effectively to the needs of the intended audience, and giving and receiving feedback for continuous improvement
• Proficient/advanced relationship management skills: Relationship management centers on an individual’s ability to manage interactions to provide service and to support the organization. These skills include being attentive to the customer’s needs, collaborating with teammates, demonstrating leadership, demonstrating the ability to influence, identifying and solving problems, working through conflict by encouraging open communication, thinking strategically, and delegating effectively
• Good/Basic leading others skills: This competency encompasses the ability to earn the right to lead people toward meeting goals and objectives. Inherent in this cluster is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the respect and trust that enable the development of others, inspire the team, and appropriately set the vision for the organization
  
  

Required Education And/or Experience

• An advanced degree (PhD) in science or clinical degree (MD, RN, RPh, PharmD) or significant relevant experience to compensate for the lack of a doctorate
• Experience in medical research, medical education, pharmaceutical writing, or medical writing
• Experience in business development, mentoring other writers, leading client-focused teams, and client partnering
• Expertise in FDA and other regulatory guidelines
  
  

Client interaction and customer service are mandatory parts of this role. Periodic travel (local, national, or international) to client sites or events may be required.

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States, as our organization does not anticipate providing sponsorship for employment visa status for this position. We participate in E-Verify and are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

FORCE Communications is a full-service medical marketing, communications, and education organization founded in 2001 that specializes in creating unique scientific/Medical Affairs, medical communication/education, commercial, and payer solutions. Our organization specializes in collaborating with pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and healthcare providers and industry partners in developing innovative programs that integrate scientific information with industry/healthcare market insight and adult learning principles.