Associate Director, Scientific Communications

Description

The Associate Director, Scientific Communications, India , operates as a core member of the global Syneos Health medical communications business. This leader will have line management and content delivery responsibilities for a team of 3-5 local medical writers of varying levels of seniority and experience. They will require the ability to effectively partner with local leadership and other key stakeholders in the organisation's global medical communications ecosystem.

For the group's medical communication agency, Cadent, the Associate Director, Scientific Communications, India is a discipline subject-matter expert, who will join the existing medical writing footprint in India to manage a highly effective medical writing team, delivering high-quality work for one of our portfolios of business. As such, this role is directly accountable to the Director of Scientific Services & Communications Group, India to ensure flawless and strategic execution in support of our global medical communications agencies, and to the satisfaction of our clients.

We are currently looking for a Associate Director, Scientific Communications, India to lead the writing team within one of our medical communications portfolios / business units. The successful candidate will be a dynamic individual who has the necessary people management and technical skills to lead a team of writers from both an editorial and a strategic perspective. The Associate Director, Scientific Communications, India must demonstrate sound scientific knowledge and understanding, keen commercial acumen, an ability to think creatively and a talent for getting the best out of people, as well as a very high standard of writing ability.

Technical skills :

• Managing the delivery of a range of high-quality medical communication materials across global programmes, including peer-to-peer programs, advisory boards, scientific platforms, MSL materials (proactive and reactive), digital medical communications and publications
• Experience across both non-promotional and promotional medical communication activities
• Ensuring maintenance of high scientific and editorial standards through first-pass review of other writers' work, as part of defined quality control process
• Proven strategic and scientific thinking and the ability to read and distill data
• Providing strategic direction to team members, to support their delivery against content briefs, based on commercial needs of the business and thorough understanding of clients' needs and objectives
• Developing specialist knowledge in specific therapy areas as required
• Ability to multi-task and collaborate internally and externally, to ensure delivery according to agreed project timelines
• Proven leadership and management of multiple accounts

Talent Management :

Team Orientation / Collaboration :

Cadent is part of Syneos Health Communications, a purpose-built collective of agencies focused on supporting health and biopharmaceutical innovators. We work in scalable, collaborative teams that partner across disciplines and geographies to deliver integrated communications strategies that accelerate brand performance. In today's fast-changing and complex environment, success lies in making connections : between science, emotion and technology; between data, design and human insight. We are able to make those connections because our advertising, public relations, medical communications, digital, data science, research and market access specialists work closely with each other and with healthcare experts, including physicians, pharmacists and advocates. Together, we are the connected healthcare partner tapping rich insights to drive innovation, change behavior and pioneer a new era of accountable marketing.

Syneos Health Communications is powered by Syneos Health, a global professional services organization designed to help the biopharmaceutical industry shorten the distance from lab to life.

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Skills Required

Capacity Management, Medical Writing