Associate Director, Medical Communications

What You'll Do

The Associate Director, Medical Communications, is a strategic leader within Medical Affairs responsible for shaping and executing medical communications plans that support congress strategy, field medical excellence, and cross-functional scientific alignment. The Associate Director, Medical Communications, will play a key cross-functional role supporting the development, coordination, and execution of congress and field medical activities. This individual will serve as a core liaison between scientific/medical communications, field medical teams, and internal stakeholders, driving medical insights and execution excellence to support the organization’s strategic goals. This role will report to the VP, Medical Affairs Neuromuscular.

Responsibilities

Medical Congress Planning and Content Development

• Lead medical congress planning in coordination with cross-functional stakeholders
• Manage medical presence logistics, cross-functional congress calendars, and insight capture/reporting tools
• Own the development of congress briefing materials and post-congress reports for internal dissemination
• Prepare slide presentations and summarize key decisions for congress and field team meetings and scientific working groups
• Liaise with agencies and vendors to ensure timely delivery and accuracy of materials
• Manage cross-functional teams for material planning, review, and medical training
• Maintain and regularly update dashboards to track impact, metrics, status, timelines, and deliverables

Field Medical Content 

• Lead scientific content development for the Field Medical Affairs team, in collaboration with the Field Medical Lead
• Review tactics for messaging/lexicon alignment, scientific accuracy, appropriateness for audience, quality, and provide direction to medical communication agencies during development, and reviews
• Ensure consistency of scientific messaging across field medical tools, congress outputs, FAQs, reactive materials, and training content
• Partner with MSLs to drive medical training decks for all publications and FAQs for high-priority or critical publications 

Where You'll Work

This is a U.S.-based remote role that will require periodic travel to our San Francisco Office, medical congresses, and team meetings.

Who You Are

• Advanced healthcare degree, including PharmD, Ph.D., or MD, required 
• 6+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, with preference for experience in scientific/medical communications and/or field medical 
• Strong writing, communication, and project management skills. Demonstrated success in creating and delivering effective presentations to senior-level audiences and to external or internal authors 
• Experience managing medical content and medical operations
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Relevant experience preferred in rare disease and neuromuscular medicine
• Familiarity with Veeva preferred 

Other:

Travel – 20% time used for travel 

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