Senior Manager, Scientific Writing

Role Summary

The Senior Manager, Scientific Writing will assist in the development and execution of Invivyd’s medical communication strategy and tactics. They will create high-quality resources that communicate scientific data on Invivyd’s products and therapeutic areas of interest. This role will collaborate with internal cross-functional teams to develop materials for scientific manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and presentations, ensuring timely, compliant, scientifically rigorous delivery of manuscripts, abstracts, and congress materials in alignment with strategic objectives and regulatory standards. Location: New Haven, CT (Northeast Preferred).

Responsibilities

• Supports the planning and execution of scientific writing deliverables, including manuscripts, abstracts, posters, slide decks, and congress materials.
• Manage end-to-end publications development, from concept through submission and revision
• Partner with Medical Affairs team members, and cross-functional colleagues to plan the content for internal documents or publications
• Oversee external writers and agency partners, including timelines, quality, and budget
• Oversight for document quality checks, managing timelines, data analysis and interpretation and preparation of publication-quality figures
• Contribute to process development and continuous improvement of medical communication workflows
• Meets strict deadlines for all scientific writing projects
• Review and amend work in response to internal and external feedback
• Conduct reference research
• Proof, format, and edit internal documents as appropriate

Qualifications

• A minimum of 2+ years of document writing and publication experience in the bio/pharmaceutical industry or related experience (e.g., scientific/medical communications agency) is required
• Bachelor’s degree required; Advanced scientific degree (Ph.D., PharmD, MD) strongly preferred or relevant advanced science degree (MS, MPH or other scientific or clinical degrees also considered)
• Strong scientific writing skills including editing experience, data quality review and a proven track record of taking publications from conception to publication
• Working knowledge of statistics, data analysis and data interpretation
• Experience creating publication quality figures
• Strong understanding of the drug development process
• Strong understanding of current good publication practices and ICMJE criteria (CMPP certification is a plus)
• Ability to demonstrate a solid understanding of process for submission of abstracts and manuscripts to scientific congresses and journals, respectively
• Ability to collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders and external authors
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work under deadlines in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of flexibility
• Ability to effectively facilitate meetings and manage cross-functional teams
• Project management experience (timelines, planning, workflows, creation of reports, archiving)
• Strong commitment to compliance and ethical standards
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; comfortable working with scientific, commercial, and operational colleagues, as well as external vendors and HCPs
• Proficiency with standard business software (e.g., Excel, PowerPoint, project management tools); experience with publications management software is an asset

Additional Requirements

• Ability to travel to the New Haven office on a regular basis and support congresses and strategic meetings (up to ~20–30% depending on calendar).