Director, Scientific Communications

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Oversee scientific engagement priorities for designated assets, indications, or therapeutic areas throughout disease-state strategy, launch planning, lifecycle management, and evidence dissemination.

• Analyze clinical, translational, real-world, and competitive evidence to guide strategic scientific direction for Medical Affairs planning and external engagement.

• Direct external expert engagement, advisory board planning, KOL and stakeholder strategies, and insight-generation initiatives.

• Manage direct reports in Medical Education and Communications along with related activities.

• Offer strategic scientific input for congress planning, medical education, field medical resources, and external communication strategies.

• Collaborate with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Publications, Regulatory, Commercial, Market Access, Field Medical, and Patient Advocacy teams.

• Enhance launch readiness and lifecycle excellence by aligning external insights, stakeholder engagement, scientific direction, field medical enablement, congress strategy, and Medical Affairs planning.

• Keep abreast of scientific, clinical, regulatory, and competitive landscapes.

• Ensure that scientific engagement activities and inputs are accurate, balanced, evidence-based, strategically aligned, and compliant.

• Supervise agency and vendor partners, including scope, budgets, timelines, quality, and performance metrics.

• Maintain financial and governance discipline, including forecasting, resource prioritization, compliant reviews, and project expenditure management.

• Act as a scientific advisor and subject matter expert to support leadership decisions and executive-level communications.

⛳️ Requirements

• An advanced scientific or clinical degree is required, such as PharmD, PhD, MD, DO, or an equivalent qualification.

• At least 10 years of progressive experience in Medical Affairs, scientific engagement, field medical, medical education, publications, Clinical Development, or related pharmaceutical/biotechnology roles.

• Proven success in leading scientific engagement initiatives that support disease-state education, external expert engagement, launch readiness, evidence dissemination, and lifecycle priorities.

• Strong scientific acumen with the ability to interpret complex clinical, translational, real-world, and competitive evidence.

• Experience in developing and executing KOL, external expert, advisory board, stakeholder engagement, and insight-generation plans within a compliant Medical Affairs environment.

• Significant experience supporting launch readiness, launch execution, or lifecycle optimization.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with Medical Education and Communications and work effectively across cross-functional teams and agency partners.

• Thorough understanding of pharmaceutical industry compliance requirements, medical/legal/regulatory review processes, and ethical standards governing scientific exchange.

• Outstanding communication, collaboration, project leadership, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to operate with executive presence, strategic agility, scientific accuracy, operational excellence, compliance, and alignment with business priorities.

• Preferred: experience in rare disease, immunology, or other relevant therapeutic areas.

• Preferred: prior leadership experience in Medical Affairs roles.

• Preferred: experience with evidence generation planning, real-world evidence interpretation, advisory board planning, or investigator-sponsored research processes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity protections.

• Compliance with federal, state, and local laws.

• Protections for Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities in employment.