Executive Director, Scientific Communications

Position Summary

The Executive Director, Scientific Communications, provides portfolio-level strategic leadership and governance for Travere's scientific communications function, ensuring publications, medical education, and congress planning are aligned to advancing Global Medical Affairs' (GMA) medical objectives.

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.

• 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.

Education, Experience, and Travel Requirements

• PharmD, PhD, or MD in a related life sciences discipline. An equivalent combination of education and applicable job experience may be considered.

• 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.

• Embodying Travere’s Core Values: Courage, Community Spirit, Patient Focus, and Teamwork.

• Ability to travel 30% of your time domestically and internationally and perform face-to-face work with colleagues and onsite presence in San Diego.