Scientific Director (Publications)

Red Nucleus is hiring a Scientific Director to join our global team! This role can be full-time remote in the US or Canada.

Our purpose is advancing knowledge to improve lives. We succeed by being the premier provider of strategic learning and development, scientific advisory services, and medical communications solutions for the life sciences industry. Our global team is composed of nearly 1000 full-time employees whose commitment to creativity, quality, and on-time delivery is unrivaled in our space.

At Red Nucleus, we believe in providing a rich working environment that pushes us to innovate in ways that engages our employees to be their best selves. Our culture is about meaningful work, a true sense of community, and fun. We love to celebrate our people and we are proud to have been Internationally recognized as a 'Great Place to Work'.

How You Will Contribute

In this position, you will be working with our Medical Communications team. For more information about our team, please visit MedComms | Red Nucleus.

The Scientific Director will be responsible for leading multiple accounts. For each account, responsibilities include overseeing the quality and timely execution of all deliverables, developing and maintaining client relationships to ensure the account durability and growth, and providing strategic and scientific support for medical communications planning. The Scientific Director is expected to exemplify the desired standards of Red Nucleus for the development of original, accurate, high-quality content (e.g., manuscripts, abstracts, slides) within project specifications, timelines, and budgets. The Scientific Director will manage a team of senior and junior medical writers, identify training needs, and develop and implement plans to address training needs. The Scientific Director is expected to provide strategic and scientific support for business development and to participate in presentations for existing clients and for business development.

Essential Functions

• Provides medical direction and develops strategy for clients' medical communications programs
• Leads the development of strategic medical affairs deliverables such as scientific communication platforms, publication plans, lexicons, and dossiers
• Provides strategic counsel from a scientific / medical perspective when requested for business development
• Sets the standards for each team
• Remains current on good publication practices and ensures that compliance both internally and externally
• Identifies training needs of the scientific team, develops the plan to address, and oversees the implementation of the plan
• Works with medical writers to develop clear, accurate content
• Provides critical editorial and scientific review of content developed by writers and ensures that content meets objectives
• Interacts with external thought leaders and faculty and internal medical affairs colleagues and clinical leads
• Cultivates expertise in assigned therapeutic areas
• Works closely with account and project managers to ensure projects are properly resourced, completed in a timely manner, meet timelines, and stay within budget
• Demonstrates ability to balance multiple projects for multiple clients
• Assists new / junior employees with content development activities and serves as a resource for questions
• Continuously complies with Red Nucleus and client standard editorial procedures, including ethical standards
• Represents the company at client meetings (e.g., advisory boards, speaker-training meetings, business development initiatives) in a professional manner

About You

Ability to travel (

What You Will Enjoy at Red Nucleus

Diversity, equity and inclusion are valued at Red Nucleus and we believe we have a shared responsibility to provide equal opportunity and foster an inclusive spirit. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, caste, sexual orientation, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

To learn more about working at Red Nucleus, please visit Careers | Red Nucleus.

Skills Required

medical communications