Medical Communications Senior Specialist

The Medical Communications Senior Specialist role supports medical affairs, scientific communications, medical information, or medical writing activities through content preparation, review coordination, documentation, and stakeholder support. The role helps maintain accurate, compliant, and useful scientific and medical materials.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Utilize therapeutic area (TA) expertise to develop and communicate scientific platforms through insightful contributions to the publication plan and other Medical Communication deliverables
• Research and respond to Level 2 Medical Information (MI) request escalations using various search and retrieval techniques to develop a medical/scientific response that is accurate, fair balanced, and delivered in a timely manner
• Serve as an expert Medical resource to the MI Call Center vendor and internal stakeholders
• Support the partnership with the publications agency in managing the tactical execution of the publication plan
• Help manage author/key opinion leader (KOL) relationships and work with author teams to develop publications
• Plan and help build the infrastructure to support the literature requirements of a mid-size biopharmaceutical company including Regulatory filings, Research and Development summary documents, and Business Development due diligence
• Identify, procure and interpret the findings of emerging scientific literature relevant to the Company development programs
• Work with the Medical Communications team to help manage and plan projects with broad organizational participation including: publications, Advisory Boards and Steering Committee meetings
• Work cross-functionally within Medical Affairs to ensure seamless interface between systems including the Scientific Library, MSL customer relationship management tool and MI databases
• Work with the Medical Communications team to help manage the staffing and operations of the Medical Affairs booth at scientific conferences/congresses attended by the Company
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• PharmD, PhD degree and 2+ years of related experience, or post-graduate pharmaceutical industry fellowship is preferred or MD degree and some related experience or post-graduate pharmaceutical industry fellowship is preferred
• Understands key business drivers and uses this understanding to accomplish work
• Has strong understanding of processes, procedures and systems used to accomplish the work and recognizes downstream impact on other functional areas
• Proficient with tools and processes that support work conducted by functional area
• Ability to work as part of a team; may train lower levels
• Excellent computer skills
• Strong project management, problem-solving, analytical thinking skills
• Detail oriented yet can see broader picture for department
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines, with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong leadership, accountability, interpersonal and organizational skills
• Proficiency in the use of PowerPoint, Word, Excel
• Proficiency in the use of literature searching databases
• Proven ability to assemble evaluated information into an accurate, comprehensive and concise standard medical response document or dossier
• Proven ability to perform in-depth literature research, analysis and interpretation of medical data; and
• Knowledge of all legal and regulatory guidelines affecting the dissemination of medical information and product promotion