Associate Director, Global Scientific Communications – Metabolics (META+) Hypoparathyroidism

This is what you will do:

• The Associate Director (AD), Scientific Communications, metabolic leads the successful development and implementation of global communications strategies, and publications plans external medical education in the assigned therapeutic areas in alignment with Alexion brand and corporate strategies. The AD will chair the respective TA Global Publications Team as well as engage with cross-functional partners including but not limited to research, clinical development, marketing, market access, medical affairs, regulatory affairs and biostats. In this role, the AD will develop collaborative and productive relationships with external investigators, thought leaders and authors. These efforts will ultimately drive timely execution of publication plans and result in high-quality and impactful scientific and clinical abstracts, posters, oral presentations, manuscripts, and congress symposia. Analysis and interpretation of scientific and clinical data as well as review of deliverables from cross-functional publications team members and agencies for content and key messages are central responsibilities of this role. The AD will also be responsible for the identification and supervision of medical communications agencies and may also work/oversee medical writing consultants. This position reports to the Senior Director, Global Scientific Communications for the metabolic TAs.

You will be responsible for:

• Participating in the development and implementation of strategic publication plans for the assigned products and disease indications.
• Ensuring timely execution of the publications to produce high quality, accurate and impactful deliverables including abstracts, posters, oral presentations, manuscripts, and slide decks.
• Participating in the planning, development and implementation of the medical educational plan including congress symposia, and other scientific programs that communicate vital information to the medical and scientific community.
• Managing and track the publication tactics to ensure its timely execution.
• Establishing strong collaborative relationships and work in close partnership with other members of Global Medical Communications (Medical Information/Medical Review, Training, and Med Comms Excellence), Global Medical Affairs (HEOR, MSLs) and key stakeholders internally (product teams, clinical teams, biostats) and externally (e.g., external authors, investigators and thought leaders, patient advocacy groups, professional societies).
• Participating in the analysis and, interpretation of scientific and clinical data, as well as the identification of appropriate publication and presentation forums for the data
• Conducting routine literature searches and interpret scientific literature for internal stakeholders, including competitor assessments.
• Ensuring compliance with Alexion’s Publication policies, standards, and guidelines

You will need to have:

• Advanced degree:  PhD, PharmD, or MD
• 5-7 years of relevant experience in a pharmaceutical company or Medical Communications agency, or at least 15 years of independent Scientific Communications / Publications consultancies for the Pharmaceutical Industry 
• Experience in strategic publication planning (including scientific platforms), tactical publication planning and implementation, and the planning and development of medical educational materials.
• Experience in developing and managing budgets.
• Demonstrated experience in successfully managing contractual and pharmaceutical industry compliance requirements for external medical education activities including congress symposia.
• Ability to interpret and organize highly complex scientific data, including experience reviewing pre-clinical and clinical trial data and output from statistical analysis programs.
• Must be skilled, detail-oriented scientific writer in English with demonstrated ability to critically interpret and contextualize clinical data for translation to physicians, patients and payers.
• Strong success in achieving acceptance of abstracts/manuscripts into the peer-reviewed literature.
• Strong working knowledge of current good publication practices, guidelines, and ethics.
• Demonstrated experience in use and oversight of industry-standard publication management system(s)
• Ability to collaborate with medical publications agencies to plan, write and develop abstracts, posters, oral presentations, manuscripts, slide decks and content for scientific and educational programs.
• Experience in collaborating closely with Key External Experts and authors.
• Demonstrated experience managing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Ability to travel (US and International) as necessary.
• The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to: use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

We would prefer for you to have:

• PhD in Life Science, CMPP certified.
• Experience in the planning and implementation of symposia and in the development of medical education materials (e.g., workshops for the development of the scientific communication platform)
• Background in rare disease

AstraZeneca embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements.