rednucleus
Associate Scientific Director (Medical Affairs)
United States · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
Clinical TrialsClinical ResearchScientific WritingResearchLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoringMicrosoft Office
About the role
- The AD Scientific Services is a scientific leader accountable for full strategic ownership of one or more accounts.
- Integrates strategic medical leadership, rigorous scientific review, and senior‑level client relationship management.
- Establish quality standards and best practices across assigned teams.
Responsibilities
- ADs and Directors lead scientific strategy, oversee content excellence at scale, and manage teams with autonomy.
- Provide scientific leadership in pitches and proposals; partner with Client Services on resourcing, scoping, and forecasting.
- Manage 3-5 direct reports (writers/ASDs); conduct performance evaluations, set goals, and guide career development.
- Support recruitment efforts for on-team hires.
- Maintain strong version control, documentation discipline, and adherence to internal procedures.
- Anticipate risks and complex issues; implement mitigation plans; share therapeutic/industry insights to elevate team knowledge.
Requirements
- Education
- Advanced degree in a scientific or healthcare‑related field preferred (eg, MSc, PhD, PharmD, MD)
- Experience
- ~5+ years' medical communications/medical writing experience, including multi‑asset or multi‑account leadership and scientific team oversight.
- ~1+ years' people management and coaching experience.
Nice to have
- Candidates with a relevant bachelor's or master's degree plus extensive experience may be considered
Skills
- Excellence in scientific writing, editing, data interpretation
- mastery of publications standards when applicable.
- Strategic thinking and client leadership
- expert facilitation and presentation skills.
- Strong understanding of clinical research and regulatory landscape
- comfortable guiding MLR submissions.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, graphic and image generations software, and collaboration platforms.
- Strong organization/time‑management
- Work Environment & Travel
- Remote/hybrid based on location
- occasional overnight travel (up to ~20%).
- To learn more about working at Red Nucleus, please visit Careers | Red Nucleus.
Benefits
- Lead one or more accounts; help define and drive integrated medical/scientific communication strategies (publication planning, communications tactics).
Company info
- Red Nucleus is hiring an Associate Scientific Director to join our global Medical Communications team!
- This role is remote based anywhere within the US or Canada.
- Our purpose is advancing knowledge to improve lives.
- We succeed by being the premier provider of strategic learning and development, scientific advisory services, and medical communications solutions for the life sciences industry.
- Our global team is composed of nearly 900 full-time employees whose commitment to creativity, quality, and on-time delivery is unrivaled in our space.
- At Red Nucleus, we believe in providing a rich working environment that pushes us to innovate in ways that engages our employees to be their best selves.
- Our culture is about meaningful work, a true sense of community, and fun.
- We love to celebrate our people and we are proud to have been Internationally recognized as a "Great Place to Work".
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