Sr. Manager, Medical Content Lead

Job Title: Sr. Manager, Medical Content Lead

Contract Length: 12 months (w/potential to extend)

Location: Remote (ideally located in Eastern or Central US)

Hours: 9-5pm (ET or CT)

Client Overview:

Our client is a global life sciences leader spanning pharmaceuticals and biologics, with a diversified pipeline across oncology, cardiovascular/renal, women's health, radiology, and cell & gene therapy. The organization is currently undergoing a significant operating model transformation aimed at increasing agility and reducing organizational layers, while simultaneously advancing a full pipeline of novel therapies through clinical development, manufacturing scale-up, and commercialization. With a strong global footprint and U.S. presence across both pharma and specialty divisions, this client offers contract and contract-to-hire professionals the opportunity to work on high-impact, cutting-edge programs within a matrixed, fast-paced environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the scientific content lead and primary scientific authority for assigned therapeutic areas, providing expert guidance on evidence interpretation, scientific positioning, and content development approaches while ensuring accuracy, clinical relevance, and strategic alignment across medical content
• Collaborate with Therapeutic Area (TA) Medical Leads to translate therapeutic area strategies into scientifically rigorous content plans and deliverables that support Medical Affairs objectives
• Lead the development of complex Medical Affairs content and provide scientific direction, mentorship, and decision support to content managers and medical content contributors, without direct line-management responsibility
• Develop and oversee assigned deliverables, including slide decks, scientific exchange materials, training resources, congress content, digital assets, and field medical tools in alignment with approved standards and therapeutic area objectives
• Monitor content quality, compliance, consistency, and audit readiness across assigned deliverables, and proactively address scientific or content-related risks
• Apply referencing standards, PRT requirements, and content development guidelines to ensure scientific rigor and compliance
• Serve as the senior content interface to TA Medical leadership and cross-functional partners, resolving escalated content issues and aligning on content priorities, approaches, and deployment plans
• Drive continuous improvement through standardized workflows, content reuse strategies, and AI-enabled approaches while ensuring scientific accuracy, appropriate human oversight, regulatory compliance, and preservation of scientific integrity
• Collaborate with project managers and operations leads to support effective prioritization, planning, and execution of content initiatives across therapeutic areas
• Foster content excellence through scientific coaching, knowledge sharing, and best-practice development

Qualifications:

• Advanced degree (PhD, PharmD, MD, or equivalent) with 5+ years of medical writing, scientific communications, or clinical content creation experience. Master's degree with 7+ years or bachelor's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience may be considered
• Deep therapeutic area expertise with demonstrated ability to interpret, synthesize, and communicate complex scientific and clinical data
• Advanced expertise in scientific storytelling, evidence synthesis, publication interpretation, and development of high-complexity Medical Affairs materials
• Proven experience leading content development in a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or Medical Affairs environment
• Demonstrated ability to challenge, refine, and elevate scientific content through scientific rigor, critical thinking, and therapeutic area expertise
• Experience supporting Medical Affairs initiatives, including scientific exchange, advisory boards, speaker programs, congress activities, field medical resources, and KOL engagement
• Demonstrated success influencing stakeholders, mentoring peers, and leading through expertise in a matrixed environment
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with a high level of scientific and operational judgment
• Detail-oriented execution with strong governance, compliance, and quality oversight capabilities
• Experience with Veeva Vault, Content Factory, CRM platforms, and/or other content management and digital asset ecosystems
• Experience working effectively across geographically dispersed teams

Skill Set Requirements:

• Medical Communications experience
• Agency experience at some point in their career
• Oncology experience-- preferably background with prostate cancer
• Content creation experience- both hands on and strategy. Approx 60% strategy/mentorship and 40% hands on and quality control
• 5+ years experience with PharmD, phD, etc. 7+ years with Masters. 10+ years w/bachelors.
• Customer service mindset, experience servicing internal stakeholders, and ability to work in fast paced environment

Nice to Haves:

• Experience w/prostate cancer
• Education/Certification(s)/License(s): Ideally a PharmD or PhD. Will accept Masters w/7+ years' experience in relevant area or bachelor's w/10 years in relevant work

Eight Eleven Group is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances.