Location: remote from the East Coast of the United States

Why Scientific Group?

Are you looking to build your career with a company that champions your professional growth and values your contributions? Do you desire the freedom of flexible working? Do you want to work for an agency that is environmentally and socially conscious? If so, Scientific Group could be for you.

With teams in the UK and the US, Scientific Group offers medical communications with a global vision. We work with some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device companies to develop creative solutions that inspire change in clinical practice, improve patient outcomes, and encourage climate-responsible behavior.

Our mission is simple: to drive medical communications toward a sustainable future and provide an environment that nurtures the best talent, encourages creativity, and inspires big thinking.

Ultimately, we all choose to work at Scientific Group because we want to help improve the lives of our fellow humans, and we live this through our company values.

Job Summary

We are looking for talented Scientific Team Lead to join Remedica, part of Scientific Group. This is a key role within the team, taking on responsibility for the quality of medical communications project deliverables across several therapy areas. You will get to employ your own editorial, data integrity, and quality control skills and experience across projects, and direct the talents of your team to add real value to clients. In addition, you will work as a strategic client partner for key accounts, applying insights into client strategy to both projects and proposals in order to execute effective, innovative communications attuned with clients’ strategic outcomes.

As well as a leading benefits package we offer a wide variety of therapy areas and project types to get involved with, along with the space to develop and flourish, the freedom to experiment and try out new things, and the chance to be involved in shaping the company.

The role will involve

• Managing a team of medical writers to ensure efficient delivery of high-quality materials, incorporating regular performance and development review.
• Performing internal review of materials and ensuring the delivery of accurate, concise and insightful material across a wide range of project types, audiences and formats.
• Providing targeted hands-on input into projects as needed.
• Collaborating with account management, creative and digital teams to scope, schedule and resource work, and deliver it to budget and deadline.
• Forming strong client partnerships, and engaging in effective interactions with thought leaders and external teams.
• Providing on-site or virtual medical writing support for meetings and events.
• Applying understanding of specific therapeutic areas, and offering scientific/strategic leadership and support to members of the content team.
• Providing input to business development activities and generating ideas for new and enhanced products and services, on an ad hoc basis.
• Working with others on the senior team to identify training needs, contributing to training efforts, and ensuring team members work in line with agreed processes.

In order to succeed in this role, you will need the following skills and experience

• Proven experience in medical communications, medical education, medical publishing or healthcare advertising.
• Proven experience of line-managing medical writers/editors.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Good organisational skills and ability to plan.
• Enthusiasm for communicating science to the ultimate benefit of patients.
• A life science degree, or equivalent, is essential; higher degrees are desirable.
• Prior experience in the field of immunology would be advantageous.

Benefits

• Wide-ranging flexible working policy
• Generous annual vacation allowance
• Private medical/dental cover
• 401k
• Discretionary annual performance-related bonus
• Volunteering day
• Vibrant social calendar

Please note

• Medical Communications agency experience is essential. Applications who do not meet his requirement will not receive a response.
• Applicants must already be living in the United States. No sponsorship is available.

Applications

We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, believing that a diverse workforce will enhance our team environment. We are also a proud Disability Confident employer and are happy to offer reasonable adjustments where possible.

Please note that applications received that do not meet the minimum requirements listed in the advert will not receive a response.

We are not working with any recruitment agencies for this position. 

All applications must be direct and through the link provided.

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