Senior Medical Communications Scientist & Strategy Lead

IQVIA Argentina; Montclair (NJ); Remote; USD 99,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

IQVIA is seeking a Sr Scientific Advisor in Medical Communications to develop high-quality scientific content and partner with stakeholders to meet client objectives. The role involves collaboration with Client Services, Marketing, and internal teams to ensure regulatory compliance and timely delivery of materials across products and disease states.

The candidate should have a PhD (preferred) or PharmD, at least 3 years in medical communications, and strong writing/presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of medical communications agency experience.
• PhD (preferred) or PharmD with a relevant concentration.
• Experience developing scientific platforms.
• Relevant therapeutic background.
• Strong knowledge of medical information resources and how to access and extract key information.
• Must be a strong team player and be willing to work in an environment where individual initiative and accountability to the team are required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to multitask and prioritize projects effectively.
• Solutions-oriented, with excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to travel for representation of company at client meetings, advisory boards, medical or industry conferences, pitch presentations, and other meetings as needed.

Responsibilities

• Authors/supports publication and presentation of product and disease state information in support of client strategy.
• Creates and presents content in a variety of media in support of client strategy and objectives.
• Critically reviews technical and scientific reports from external sources for inclusion as a resource for content development.
• Reviews clinical regulatory documents and common technical documents to ensure regulatory compliance in all content created.
• Identifies, develops, recommends and/or negotiates scientifically sound, creative solutions to meet clients’ critical business needs.
• Directly interacts with client to ensure client objectives are met.
• Collaboratively interacts with scientists internally and from all partners.
• Establishes, maintains, and directs interactions with key opinion leaders relevant to assigned compounds and therapeutic area.
• Participates in meetings and negotiations with key opinion leaders on the establishment of strategically aligned content for assigned products or disease states.
• Partners with client and KOLs to create advisory board materials including agenda and meeting content.
• Act as a facilitator during advisory board meeting when required.
• Proactively partners with internal and external partners to develop and implement a compliant strategy and framework for the delivery and communication of key scientific, pipeline, or clinical insights in line with client objectives.
• Ensures awareness of current trends within the industry and establishes global best practices regarding system(s) enhancement, usage, and training.
• Provides scientific expertise to functional area representatives on product strategy, disease narratives, study design, and scientific rationale in clinical studies, within and/or across therapeutic area(s).
• Provides regular updates to Head of Medical on project and client status, as we as on resource needs.
• Works with Client Services to serve as client liaison for content development.
• Provides status on all assigned projects to Client Services to ensure adherence to timelines and to ensure that clients are informed of any potential changes or delays.
• Supports Marketing in the development of content-related pitch materials.
• Contributes ideas and scientific knowledge to Marketing for use in proposal development.
• Accompanies Marketing and Client Services to pitch meetings.
• Supports Marketing by maintaining awareness of medical environment, including potential new products and clients. Creates market assessments and shares findings to marketing Strategy meetings internally.
• Apprises Marketing of scope changes to contracted work, as determined with the client.

Skills

Medical communications

Content development

Stakeholder collaboration

Regulatory awareness

Written and verbal communication

multitasking

Team player

Travel readiness

Education

PhD (preferred)

PharmD with relevant concentration

Job description

IQVIA is seeking a Sr Scientific Advisor in Medical Communications to develop high-quality scientific content and partner with stakeholders to meet client objectives. The role involves collaboration with Client Services, Marketing, and internal teams to ensure regulatory compliance and timely delivery of materials across products and disease states.

The candidate should have a PhD (preferred) or PharmD, at least 3 years in medical communications, and strong writing/presentation skills.