Job Order: 5024
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Medical Director
Location: Illinois
Company Summary:
Our client produces medical education programs. The mission of our client is to advance healthcare education by providing full-service content, strategy, and logistics.
Description:
Role:
We are seeking a talented individual who will serve as a therapeutic expert providing his/her scientific expertise to our programs. This role will be a scientifically oriented person with a strong background in pharmacology and have a thorough understanding of the pharmaceutical industry and its regulatory concerns as it pertains to medical content development.
This role is responsible for the review and development of all scientific content across multiple therapeutic areas, coordinating the efforts of external faculty, industry thought leaders, and editorial staff. This individual will be expected to work on multiple programs simultaneously and assist team members in the design, development and implementation of content for our clients programs and meetings. This role will also be responsible for developing key strategic partner relationships outside the organization, be an available expert to our clients and design, development & implementation of new healthcare education programs.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage scientific direction of client programs: write, edit & review content to ensure accuracy, and clinical relevance
- Provide scientific background and key strategy insight to account teams, writers, and editors.
- Identify and interact with key opinion leaders and faculty to produce content that will be able to meet our clients strict regulatory review process.
- Establish relationships with our clients as a strategic partner to achieve account objectives, and provide ongoing team leadership
- Be a clinical mentor for team members to help them expand product knowledge and therapeutic expertise in the therapy areas of our clients.
- Manage medical writers internally and externally under a strict quality control process
- Participate in strategic planning and business development efforts
- Attend client presentations, and assists in proposal development as needed, travel is required
- Remain current with medical advancements and research literature to ensure content quality
- Write medical documents including but not limited to manuscripts, white papers, monographs, slide kits, and training modules.
- Develop a strong working relationship with account teams to provide the highest level of service both internally and externally
- Responsible to drive and own all assigned projects and deliverables
- Engages in frequent client interaction, and is a highly visible individual
- Must be able to work with clients to understand the goals and objectives of their key marketing initiatives
- Must have demonstrated patient program design, development, implementation & management experience.
- Advanced degree in the life sciences, pharmacology, or medicine
- Minimum of 2-3 years medical content management experience in a strategic medical communications role within the pharmaceutical or the medical communications industry.
- Demonstrated expertise in identifying, interacting with, and negotiating with pharmaceutical clients and clinical faculty during the development of program content. Must have first-hand scientific content development experience.
- Significant project management experience with direct client contact regarding project delivery and content development needs.
- Must have the ability to quickly assess and discuss scientific materials across several therapeutic areas & disease states
- Demonstrated a strong understanding of FDA regulations as applied to the pharmaceutical industry for promotional medical education
- Knowledge of Internet resources for medical information.
- Current knowledge of medical writing and referencing guidelines.
- Demonstrated communication, coaching and mentoring, and client presentation/negotiation skills
- Advanced interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience working with pharmaceutical and medical device regulatory personnel and procedures.
- Travel required
