WW and US Medical Communications Manager

Responsibilities

• Medical Communications Strategy: Leads across the Client matrix to develop and timely delivery of strategically aligned medical publications, scientific content, medical information, medical education, training content, and congress presentations.
• Serves as the Medical Communications point of contact between WW and other matrix partners. Provides medical communications management oversight.
• Enhances bi-directional communication by understanding and sharing the WW medical communications plans to Medical and raises needs to WW Medical / Medical Communications teams, ensuring country / global level of awareness & connectivity including vendor oversight.
• Understands the communication needs and owns the pull-through and execution of the Scientific Narrative, development & execution of functionally integrated publication plan, content plan, and application to the Scientific Communication Platform (SCP).
• Data Dissemination: Serve as a subject matter expert to Client internal audiences related to communication landscape, HCP preferences, publication and scientific content planning, data disclosure / dissemination, and represents Client scientific communications to external investigators, key authors and journal editors.
• Promotes and reinforces principles among authors and internal publication stakeholder community, ensuring publications are authored, written, and reviewed according to publication best practices and Client standards and policies ensuring Client publication & scientific content standards are aligned with Good Publication Practices and industry standards, and all Client employees engaged in publication activities follow Good Publication Practices guidance with the highest degree of integrity, quality and transparency.
• Identifies and drives opportunities to enhance processes, tools, operating procedures, and outsourcing strategy to ensure consistent delivery and alignment of standards.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Fosters collaborative relationships with academic & clinical experts, publishers, medical associations & other relevant key stakeholder groups; participates in external initiatives to foster trust and respect amongst academic and medical publishing community.

Qualifications

• Advance scientific degree, PharmD, PhD or MD, preferred.
• 3+ years of Pharmaceutical / Healthcare industry experience with a focus on medical communications; experience in both local country & global, preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategically, drive performance, build alignment, inform, negotiate and collaborate.
• Experience working cross-functional, with cross-cultural project teams, and collaborating across matrix, markets and global geographies.
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment & demonstrated success driving optimal business results in a large complex corporate environment with multiple priorities and tight timelines.
• Strong leadership, organizational, communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills.
• Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with exceptional time management skills.
• Experience leading medical communications across all phases of drug development and commercialization.
• Ability to analyze and interpret trial data.
• Ability to influence and negotiate appropriate solutions; ability to establish strong stakeholder relationships.
• Ability to flexibly schedule and participate in teleconferences and virtual meetings across different time zones.