Executive Director, Scientific Communications

Responsibilities

• Portfolio-level scientific communications strategy
• Lead the strategy and integration of scientific communications across publications, medical education, and congress planning, ensuring a unified, portfolio-level dissemination approach aligned to lifecycle and regulatory priorities
• Establish and maintain a multi-year scientific communications plan aligned to pipeline milestones, label expansions, and evidence generation plans
• Ensure consistent scientific positioning and narrative alignment across indications, setting the enterprise narrative framework within which GMA operates
• Define the function’s approach to digital dissemination, modular content, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted workflows
• Synthesize competitive intelligence across the portfolio to inform narrative evolution and dissemination priorities
• Own the Scientific Communications function budget, including annual planning, financial forecasting, and expenditure tracking across publications, content, med ed, congress planning, and agency partners
• Scientific content development and dissemination
• Direct the strategic sequencing and prioritization of publication plans across indications against portfolio-level objectives and regulatory milestones
• Integrate the medical education program (grants strategy, areas of interest, CME/IME compliance) into the broader scientific communications strategy
• Drive innovation in scientific communications dissemination, working closely with GMA’s Digital Engagement and Innovation function
• Own the enterprise content strategy and framework, defining how scientific content is created, reviewed, versioned, and repurposed across deliverables ensuring version control and reduced duplication
• Cross-functional integration
• Partner closely with Therapeutic Areas, Market Access, Regulatory, Biometrics, and Commercial partners to translate upstream evidence generation and clinical development plans into dissemination strategies
• Align publication and dissemination timing with regulatory submissions, label expansions, and pipeline transitions
• Ensure scientific communications consistency across alliance partners (e.g., Vifor, Chugai), including joint publication governance
• Team leadership and portfolio readiness
• Lead, develop, and hold accountable a Scientific Communications team ensuring clear expectations, actionable feedback, and performance management
• Maintain documented succession plans and individual development plans connecting team member growth to business needs
• Enable cross-functional capability development across publications, medical education, and congress planning through structured flexibility and development pathways
• Oversee resource allocation across assets and functional streams, managing a multi-program team where individuals span indications and deliverable types
• Build the systems, agency partner relationships, and governance frameworks needed before new assets enter the dissemination phase
• External scientific leadership
• Engage key opinion leaders and academic collaborators in publication steering, dissemination advisory, and congress session development, distinct from field medical engagement
• Represent Travere in publication and scientific communications forums, contributing to scientific discourse with credibility and authority

Qualifications

• PharmD, PhD or MD in a related life sciences discipline
• 12+ years’ experience within a scientific communications or medical affairs function, with demonstrable portfolio-level leadership spanning multiple assets, preferably in rare diseases or nephrology
• Significant breadth of experience across publications, medical education, and congress strategy

Education

An equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered.