Global Director Medical Communications and Publications

Summary of Position

The Global Director Medical Communications and Publications serves as the subject matter expert in Medical publication and communication startegies and lead a cross-functional Chief Medical Office medical communication and publications strategy for North America, Europe, and Asia. This role ensures alignment with corporate strategy, global communications, and marketing, as well as alignment with subject matter experts and KOLs, and alliance partners to position Curium appropriately among scientific and medical stakeholders.

This role is responsible for prioritizing, executing, reviewing, and editing key tactics consisting of meeting abstracts and presentations and peer-reviewed manuscripts along with organizing symposia and educational webinars as well.  This role is also responsible for coordinating medical writing with internal and external medical writers to ensure timely delivery and submission of publications.  The Global Director Medical Communications and Publications establishes and maintains effective intellectual partnerships with scientific and medical Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) and healthcare professionals (HCPs) with travel to scientific conferences and key meetings as needed.

This role is accountable for guiding and overseeing publication vendors, and managing publications budgets, further analyzing, interpreting, and communicating scientific and medical insights to internal and external stakeholders, including the Medical Affairs functional group.  This position will provide clinical evidence in a compelling and compliant way, while ensuring this evidence is endorsed by expert third parties.
 

Essential Functions

• Use research to create data-driven medical content or publications.
• Work at a minimum with North America, Europe, and Asia Medical Affairs, Clinical Development and Operations, and Medical Science Liaisons to develop medical education.
• Ensure content aligns with customer or health care practitioner needs and wider global communications.
• Maintain scientific and clinical accuracy across all content deliverables.
• Able to work effectively on multiple projects across departments.
• Participate and lead content review, ensuring all stakeholders needs are met.
• Serve as a liaison between the Medical Affairs and Clinical Development and Operation teams, and direct the planning and execution of medical and scientific publications.
• Ensure publications adhere to policies and procedures/SOPs and meet the industry standards.
• Create strategic medical communication and publications planning in alignment with global communications strategy and plans.
• Develop publication planning and editorial services.
• Key Opinion Leader author and participation identification.
• Oversee Event Management in respect to medical/scientific content for scientific meetings including advisory boards, company sponsored meetings, education webinars, and congress symposia.
• Create Disease-awareness programs.
• Produce Training and development programs (internal and external).
• Development and production of interactive media.
• Create Translation programs – from clinical data to clinical practice.
• Must maintain operational compliance with US and international regulatory agencies and guidelines (i.e. FDA, EU, HC, TGA, PIC/S, ISO, USP, NRC, cGMP, etc.).

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in a scientific discipline required, advanced degree/license strongly preferred: Master, MD, PharmD, RPh, Ph.D.  
• 15 or more years of experience in publications and medical writing within the industry (e.g., biotech/pharmaceutical), preferably 2+ years in oncology or nuclear medicine
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation, communication, and collaborative skills with individuals, groups, and C-Suite
• Ability to write/edit scientific manuscripts, posters and abstracts with a medically strategic mindset
• Ability to create and edit basic medical illustrations
• Working knowledge of Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, and Regulatory functions; pre-launch, launch and post-launch in a global setting
• Ability to work across multi-disciplinary groups and to lead decision-making discussions
• Knowledge of and compliance with all relevant guidelines (GPP3, ICMJE), laws, industry standard best practices, and corporate policies.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (i.e. Excel, Word, Powerpoint, MSTeams, SharePoint)
• Incredible attention to detail, structured thinking and organizational skills
• Collaborative across multiple functional areas
• Enjoy creative problem solving, literature review, and data-driven insights
• Effective communication with complex medical and scientific information
• Consumer focused mindset, and eagerness to improve healthcare
• Fluency (written and spoken) in English is mandatory

Working Conditions:

• Ability to travel up to 25%.
• Valid driver’s license.
• May be required to work weekends and holidays to support.