Associate Director, Medical Communications – Oncology (Remote)

Role Summary

The Associate Director, Medical Communications is responsible for the development of medical publications as well as the management of publication agencies/vendors and the associated budgets, and oversight of internal medical writer led projects. This role collaborates with the medical communication lead for the therapeutic area and the Global Medical Affairs Lead (GMAL) in the development of comprehensive strategic publication plans as well as scientific communication plans. The Associate Director, Medical Communications is also responsible for leadership of the successful and timely implementation of publication and scientific plans within budget. The Associate Director, Medical Communications, reports into the Medical Communication Head for the therapeutic area.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading publication planning teams in assigned therapeutic area(s) along with the development and implementation of a comprehensive publication plan. Strategic publication planning is conducted in collaboration with the medical communication lead for the therapeutic area and the GMAL.
• Responsible for the overseeing the development of abstracts, posters, oral presentations, and manuscripts from Jazz sponsored clinical trials and other Jazz sponsored research.
• Build effective partnerships with all internal stakeholders, including regional and global medical affairs directors, other medical communication leads, HEOR, RWE, biostatistics, clinical development, Early Development, medical science liaisons, medical information, and other members of the publications team.
• Establish strong working relationships with authors and other external experts.
• Manage day to day interactions with publication agencies and participate in vendor selection activities.
• Manage all financial and contractual aspects of assigned projects, including external vendors.
• Coordinate publication reviews and integration of reviewer comments.
• Ensure that all developed materials are reviewed and appropriately signed off according to Jazz publication policies and procedures and maintain archive of approved materials within the appropriate management system.
• Assist in the review of publications for medical accuracy, fair balance, and ensuring adherence to Jazz policies and good publication practice.
• Ensure all Jazz-sponsored publications are developed according to Jazz publication policy and good publication practice, including published guidelines (e.g., GPP 2022, ICMJE, CONSORT).
• Develop and maintain content (e.g., slide decks) for Medical Science Liaison (MSL) teams for assigned product(s) as needed.
• In collaboration with key stakeholders within medical affairs functions, lead the medical communication strategy activities at key medical congresses, including the medical and/or therapeutic area booth panel development, other booth materials, meeting summaries to internal audiences, and post-meeting slide reviews to internal audiences; ensure all materials undergo appropriate medical affairs review committee assessment. Where additional staff exist in this role, help to provide strategic oversight and medical review of activities.
• Support development of scientific communications plans and oversee execution of tactics both internally and externally.
• Provide scientific/medical input into the development of commercial strategies.
• Develop and expand scientific proficiency in assigned therapeutic area(s).
• Develop product expertise for Jazz product(s) under responsibility.
• Prepare, analyze, interpret, and summarize data.
• Evaluate study data from tables and listings.
• The Associate Director, Medical Communication reports into the Medical Communication Head for the therapeutic area.

Qualifications

• Must have extensive experience in strategic publication planning and execution of publication plans.
• Strong Knowledge of current good publication practices and guidelines and medical writing guidelines (e.g., GPP 2022, IMJE, CONSORT).
• Demonstrated experience interacting with and collaborating with authors and other external experts; ability to effectively interact with internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience in managing budgets across several projects.
• Experience managing external agencies preferred.
• Excellent oral communication and interpersonal skills and written communication skills.
• Understand clinical trial research, the drug development process, and GCP requirements, and have experience with reviewing clinical trial data.
• Prior medical writing experience preferred.
• Proficiency with MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as databases such as PubMed.
• Experience with publication management systems (e.g., PubsHub, Datavision).

Education

• Advanced scientific degree (Doctorate degree preferred: PhD, PharmD, or MD).
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in pharmaceutical medical communications / publications, medical writing, or other medical affairs scientific functions, or at a medical communications agency as a medical director and/or writer; and/or journal editor experience. Publications leader experience within the pharmaceutical industry is preferred.
• Prior Oncology experience is preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Travel will vary, plan on 10-20%.