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Senior Medical Director – Medical Education
| Company | Wunderman Thompson |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $100000 – $230000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | PhD, MD |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Leadership skills
- Passionate about the medical education/communication business
- Strong scientific and medical communications acumen
- Effective written and oral communications skills
- Excellent supervisory skills
- Excellent interpersonal and listening skills
- Strong organizational skills
- Advanced degree in biomedical sciences (MD, PhD)
- 5+ years previous experience at medical communications agency
- Experience in multiple therapeutic areas
- Experience managing multiple teams and client accounts
- Multiple, successful new business pitches
- Advanced skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, Internet search, Pubmed
Responsibilities
- Be a brand champion by ensuring all agency efforts and projects are in the best interest of the brand and maximize scientific data to meet the overall strategic imperatives, positioning, and long-term vision
- Effectively manage multiple accounts from a scientific perspective, including all scientific and strategic aspects of medical communication tactics, meetings, and programs
- Develop and oversee projects that demand a high degree of scientific and/or technical understanding
- Be accountable for client satisfaction, scientific rigor and accuracy, and strategic excellence of all projects
- Read, interpret, and distill content from medical journal articles and pharmaceutical clinical study reports for scientific and marketing messages
- Hands-on medical writing, editing, re-writing
- Review scientific content for accuracy
- Proactively suggest new and innovative ways to present data
- Work in partnership with account services counterpart and editorial department
- Coach, manage, mentor, and provide direction to Scientific Associates, Associate Medical Directors, and Medical Directors where applicable
- Identify and secure business opportunities on account (eg, organic growth)
- Full command of, and adherence to internal processes on all projects and ensure staff understands and follows process and provide recommendations
- Establish good working relationships with key opinion leaders
- Involvement in new business opportunities, as needed
- Liaise with client and fulfill client requests
- Engage in client interaction, including running teleconferences and client meetings, answering questions regarding content issues on manuscripts and presentations, attend meetings, and demonstrate knowledge of content
- Develop and maintain harmonious relationships with all levels of client teams
- Take responsibility for client satisfaction and identify new ways/solutions to strengthen relationships
- Identify and resolve client conflicts quickly and efficiently
- Provide proactive written recommendations to client on a regular basis
- Demonstrate a knowledge of the therapeutic market and share timely information about changes in the market
- Participate in the development of breakthrough creative and innovative programs founded in strong science
- Ensure high-quality agency output, reflective of consistently superior creative and innovative products and constructively reject materials that do not meet this standard
- Manage freelance writers, if needed – assign projects, provide direction, ensure project is on strategy
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
