Position: Manager Scientific Communications, Req#: 30999199
Location: San Rafael, CA (100% Remote)
Duration: 6 Months Contract
Open to fully remote candidates, who must work PST hours.
Job Description:
Minimum requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in life or health sciences; advanced degree required.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in managing publications and external scientific communications.
- CMPP certification preferred.
Skills:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to interpret, analyze, and communicate complex scientific data
- Understanding of statistical and clinical research concepts
- Understanding of biotech/pharmaceutical clinical and regulatory processes
- Strong project management skills and ability to prioritize tasks and work on multiple projects
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
- Extensive experience with graphic design software (Adobe Creative Suite), medical content management systems (Datavision, Veeva), and biomedical reference databases (e.g., PubMed) preferred
- Strong data visualization and graphic presentation skills preferred
Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:
Publication Strategy and Planning:
- Collaborate with cross-functional team during publication strategy meetings to develop and ensure timely execution of the scientific communication plan for the client’s Skeletal Dysplasia program
- Develop expert knowledge of product- and disease-specific literature and oversee literature and gap analyses to support scientific message development and publication strategy
- Organize and implement expert meetings necessary for publication strategy development; collaborate with MDs to develop agenda and content, manage vendors, and attend and present as needed
- Support scientific congress activities including the development of content for symposia and medical booth materials
- Facilitate the external/independent development of treatment and management guidelines
Publication Content Creation:
- Research, draft, and edit scientific and medical manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and presentations
- Critically analyze complex information and collaborate with clinical/medical and statistical teams on data analysis, interpretation, and presentation
- Manage agency and/or contract medical writers and/or graphic designers, as needed
- Ensure all scientific communications outputs meet the highest standards of medical/scientific integrity
- Ensure that key data, statements, and conclusions included in publications and other deliverables are consistent with scientific messaging and that statements and conclusions are integrated, accurate, balanced, and supported by appropriate data.
- Identify and propose resolutions for data quality issues in collaboration with MDs and the statistical team during data interrogation.
- Ensure activities adhere to authorship and publication guidelines as stipulated by ICMJE and GPP 2022
- Assist with maintenance and reconciliation activities within the publication development database.
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