Medical Communications Manager

Position Title : Medical Communications Manager

Work Location: Princeton Pike, New Jersey 08536

Duration: 06 Months

Work Arrangement: 50% Onsite

Position Summary

The Medical Communications manager is accountable for the following:

• Leads across the Organization matrix to develop and timely delivery of strategically aligned medical publications, scientific content, medical information, medical education, training content, and congress presentations.
• Ensures endorsement of medical communications plans by relevant governance bodies prior to execution.
• Continuously develops and maintains communication plans aligned with scientific landscape and medical strategy.
• Serves as Medical Communications point of contact between Worldwide teams and matrix partners.
• Provides Medical Communications management oversight.
• Enhances bi-directional communication between global and local medical teams.
• Oversees vendor management.
• Owns pull-through and execution of Scientific Narrative.
• Develops and executes publication plans.
• Develops and executes scientific content plans.
• Applies communication strategy within Scientific Communication Platform (SCP).
• Interfaces with market partners.
• Manages Medical Communications budget.

Data Dissemination

• Serve as a subject matter expert to internal audiences related to communication landscape, HCP preferences, publication and scientific content planning, data disclosure / dissemination, and represent scientific communications to external investigators, key authors and journal editors.

• Promotes and reinforces principles among authors and internal publication stakeholder community, ensuring publications are authored, written, and reviewed according to publication best practices and standards and policies ensuring publication & scientific content standards are aligned with Good Publication Practices and industry standards, and all employees engaged in publication activities follow Good Publication Practices guidance with the highest degree of integrity, quality and transparency.

• Demonstrates understanding of therapeutic disease areas, expertise to support the establishment of strong working collaborations with both internal and external disease-area experts to ensure quality data analysis, interpretation, communication planning & data disclosure/dissemination.

• Ensures collection of insights to deliver high quality medical communication that enables the most impactful dialogue and interactions with customers.

• Identifies and drives opportunities to enhance processes, tools, operating procedures, and outsourcing strategy to ensure consistent delivery and alignment of standards

Stakeholder Engagement

• Fostering collaborative relationships with academic & clinical experts, publishers, medical associations & other relevant key stakeholder groups; participating in external initiatives to foster trust and respect amongst academic and medical publishing community

• Partners with TA Medical Communication Leads, Market Medical and other stakeholder to assess, plan, and allocate resources (budget, medical writing, biostatistical services) to ensure timely delivery of high-quality medical communications

• Partners externally with 3rd party vendors to ensure the appropriate balance of internal and external execution of work

• Establishes clear metrics aligned & regularly communicates metrics with key medical stakeholders

Other Responsibilities

• High performing, externally focused which emphasizes teamwork, cooperation, personal accountability, and a commitment to quality; models behaviors and reinforces such behaviors at all levels in the organization

• Ensure preparation for audit and inspection readiness

• Ensuring diversity and inclusion in decision making, organization and talent development

Qualifications & Experience

Advance scientific degree, PharmD, PhD or MD preferred

• 3 years of Pharmaceutical/Healthcare industry experience with a focus on medical communications; experience in both local country & global preferred

• Demonstrated ability to lead strategically, drive performance, build alignment, inform, negotiate and collaborate

• Experience working cross-functional, with cross-cultural project teams, and collaborating across matrix, markets and global geographies

• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment & demonstrated success driving optimal business results in a large complex corporate environment with multiple priorities and tight timelines

• Ability to manage timelines and quality of work using strong leadership, organizational, communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills

• Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with exceptional time management skills

• Experience leading medical communications across all phases of drug development and commercialization

• Ability to analyze and interpret trial data

• Ability to influence and negotiate appropriate solutions; ability to establish strong stakeholder relationships

• Ability to flexibly schedule and participate in teleconferences and virtual meetings across different time zones

• Ability to travel (domestically and internationally)

Working Conditions

• 50% onsite
• Domestic travel required
• International travel required
• Participation in meetings across multiple time zones

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