Medical Director (Publications)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Publication Strategy & Planning:

  • Develop and execute publication strategies aligned with client objectives, evidence priorities, and broader medical affairs goals
  • Lead strategy for manuscripts, abstracts, posters, congress activity, plain language summaries, and other dissemination formats
  • Guide evidence gaps, sequencing, target journals/congresses, author engagement, and publication impact measurement

• Broader Medical Affairs Strategy & Deliverables:

  • Provide scientific direction for selected medical affairs deliverables, including platforms, core decks, advisory board materials, medical education content, field medical tools, and congress resources
  • Translate clinical, HEOR, real-world evidence, and published data into clear narratives for publication and medical affairs channels
  • Connect publication outputs with broader evidence dissemination, omnichannel engagement, and medical education needs

• Scientific Communication:

  • Provide senior scientific oversight to ensure accuracy, clarity, balance, and strategic alignment across deliverables
  • Lead or direct writing, review, and refinement of manuscripts, congress materials, scientific platforms, core narratives, and related content
  • Maintain consistent scientific messaging across publication plans, medical affairs materials, congress activity, and account deliverables

• Client Leadership:

  • Serve as a senior scientific and strategic contact for clients across publication and medical affairs workstreams
  • Build trusted relationships and guide content priorities, data interpretation, audience needs, and dissemination formats
  • Lead author, KOL, advisory board, steering committee, medical affairs, and cross-functional discussions where appropriate

• Operational Excellence:

  • Ensure deliverables meet applicable quality, publication ethics, journal/congress, ICMJE, GPP, client, and internal standards
  • Oversee progress, risks, review cycles, workflows, timelines, scope, resources, budgets, and client expectations
  • Identify issues related to scientific accuracy, evidence interpretation, review complexity, timelines, and stakeholder alignment, and recommend solutions early

• Cross-functional Collaboration:

  • Collaborate with medical affairs, publications operations, account, clinical, regulatory, analytics, editorial, design, strategy, and project management teams
  • Share publication and medical affairs best practices to strengthen consistency, quality, and strategic alignment

• People Leadership:

  • Provide leadership, mentorship, and feedback to writers, content leads, and cross-functional contributors
  • Build team capability in publication strategy, medical affairs content, data interpretation, scientific storytelling, and quality standards

• Business Development:

  • Support proposals, pitches, publication strategy recommendations, medical affairs content strategy, and organic growth opportunities
  • Help shape scopes that reflect scientific complexity, stakeholder review needs, and delivery requirements

What This Position is a Perfect Fit For You If:

• Our Company values – Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an “I” – really speak to you
• You are adaptable, resilient, proactive, resourceful, highly organized, and comfortable adjusting priorities as client and business needs evolve
• You bring scientific curiosity, collaborative instincts, strong prioritization skills, and a commitment to high-quality client service

What You Should Have:

• Degree in life sciences, medicine, pharmacy, public health, or related discipline required; advanced degree such as PhD, PharmD, MD, MPH, MSc, or equivalent experience preferred
• 6+ years of publications, medical affairs, or medical communications experience within an agency, pharmaceutical, biotech, academic, or related environment
• Advanced publication strategy, scientific leadership, and client advisory capability, complemented by strong working knowledge of broader medical affairs deliverables
• Strong command of publication ethics, ICMJE, GPP, journal/congress requirements, authorship considerations, and evidence dissemination best practices
• Ability to lead scientific content across publications, scientific platforms, core decks, advisory board materials, medical education content, congress assets, and field medical resources
• Excellent data interpretation, scientific writing, reviewing, and editorial judgment across clinical, HEOR, real-world evidence, and published data sources
• Ability to connect publication strategy with medical affairs objectives, audience needs, stakeholder engagement, and integrated communication planning
• Strong client, author, KOL, and cross-functional stakeholder management skills, with ability to lead teams under complex timelines while maintaining quality and scientific integrity
• Ability to model responsible AI use and identify AI-enabled workflow improvements for research, content development, quality checks, and evidence synthesis
• Demonstrated strength in publications required, with experience or strong working knowledge across broader medical affairs deliverables preferred