Senior Scientific Associate

Role Description

This role supports clients in the Central Time Zone. Candidates must be able to work standard CST business hours.

As a Senior Scientific Associate, you will write medical content for our clients, working with internal teams to ensure that the client vision is achieved, impacting our clients who are developing groundbreaking medicines/treatments to make medicines accessible and affordable. We provide external training, mentorship, and operate in a cross-functional project team environment.

About You:

• You have a strong interest in managed markets and consider yourself a life-long learner.
• You enjoy writing and researching.
• You stay on top of trends in the medical/scientific community.
• You love rolling up your sleeves and taking projects from start to finish.
• You have an eye for detail and can accurately convey complex information in a simple way.
• You are passionate about providing medical insights, supplying creative ideas, and developing high-quality content that allows you to use scientific/medical knowledge and demonstrate your writing skills.

What you can expect day-to-day:

• Serving as medical point person on assigned accounts.
• Developing, writing, and translating complex scientific data to a broad audience across multiple and wide-ranging therapeutic areas.
• Ensuring project quality and outcomes by demonstrating in-depth technical expertise of assigned therapeutic category and/or managed care areas.
• Developing strategic content for a full range of medical content (slide presentations, advisory boards, strategy guides, monographs, discussion guides, training resources, etc.).
• Working closely with account teams to refine content in keeping with strategic imperatives.
• Communicating medical content with internal team and pharmaceutical clients, as necessary.
• Attending medical, legal, regulatory review meetings.
• Participating in internal team meetings, including project kick-off meetings, weekly status meetings, client meetings, and internal brainstorm/review meetings.
• Chipping in ideas for new business proposals and tactical planning within assigned accounts.
• Mentoring junior level writers.

Qualifications

• Doctorate level degree such as PharmDs or PhDs.
• 2-4 years in medical communications, healthcare agency, medical education, or similar field.
• Ability to translate complex scientific concepts for a variety of managed care audiences.
• Ability to prioritize projects, juggle competing client priorities & meet deadlines without sacrificing quality.
• Flexibility to meet the demands of a dynamic environment.
• Strong written and verbal social skills.
• Ability to travel occasionally.

Requirements

• Reasonable estimate of the current range: $87,500 — $122,500 USD.

Benefits

• Discretionary annual bonus.
• Health insurance.
• Retirement savings benefits.
• Life insurance and disability benefits.
• Parental leave.
• Paid time off for sick leave and vacation.