Senior Scientific Strategist

Description

Note: The individual in this role must be located within a commutable distance to our Cedar Knolls, New Jersey office. This person will be expected to attend special meetings and events at the office, in addition to client visits in the Cedar Knolls area, a few times per month.

Objectives

Of this role, you will be expected to:

• Partner across the disciplines of strategy to drive brand building, unbranded initiatives, and communication planning
• Develop custom application of data to all projects based on in-depth customer understanding gathered from market research, advisory boards, congress attendance, and desk research
• Interrogate scientific literature deeply and broadly with the ability to “follow the trail,” prioritizing key areas of exploration and identifying barriers and opportunities
• Analyze, interpret, and distill scientific and market research/ad boards to develop brand-relevant medical insights, market landscape traits, brand barriers, and opportunities
• Foster authentic and effective relationships with client brand and medical teams, as well as other relevant medical personnel (eg, key opinion leaders, MSLs, etc)
• Create clinical and scientific content across commercial and medical deliverables

Duties And Responsibilities

The senior scientific strategist will need to utilize all of their capabilities as a scientist and a person, tapping into both their scientific thinking and creative core.

Our ideal partner is a deep and dynamic thinker who can read beyond the data to create focused scientific concepts, push past observations to insights, and help guide our teams forward in strategic development.

The senior scientific strategist is growing into the role of the day-to-day scientific partner on a brand.

Job Requirements

• Relevant degree (PhD preferred)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing
• Experience developing medical communications programs preferred
• Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings—one-on-one, small/large groups, with peers, subordinates, and bosses—both inside and outside the organization
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Adobe
• Constant curiosity with the passion to explore and create