Job Title: WW Scientific Content & US Market Capabilities (Medical Communications Specialist)
Location: 50% onsite in Princeton Pike
Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm
Duration: 06 Months
Location: Princeton Pike?, NJ

Key Responsibilities

Medical Communications Strategy:
• Leads across the company matrix to develop and timely delivery of strategically aligned medical publications, scientific content, medical information, medical education, training content, and congress presentations.
• Ensures endorsement of medical communications plans by relevant governance bodies prior to execution, and continuously develops and maintains plans in conjunction with scientific landscape and in alignment with Local Market Medical, Worldwide (WW) Medical and medical market-level strategy
• Serves as the Medical Communications point of contact between WW/ and other matrix partners
• Provides medical communications management oversight
• Enhances bi-directional communication by understanding and sharing the WW medical communications plans to Medical and raises needs to WW Medical/Medical Communications teams, ensuring country/global level of awareness & connectivity including vendor oversight.
• Understand the communication needs and own the pull-through and execution of the Scientific Narrative, development & execution of functionally integrated publication plan, content plan, and application to the Scientific Communication Platform (SCP).
• Must have strong business acumen, ability to interface with market matrix partners & manage Medical Communications budget

Data Dissemination:
• Serve as a subject matter expert to company internal audiences related to communication landscape, HCP preferences, publication and scientific content planning, data disclosure / dissemination, and represent company scientific communications to external investigators, key authors and journal editors.
• Promotes and reinforces principles among authors and internal publication stakeholder community, ensuring publications are authored, written, and reviewed according to publication best practices and company standards and policies ensuring company publication & scientific content standards are aligned with Good Publication Practices and industry standards, and all company employees engaged in publication activities follow Good Publication Practices guidance with the highest degree of integrity, quality and transparency.
• Demonstrates understanding of therapeutic disease areas, expertise to support the establishment of strong working collaborations with both internal and external disease-area experts to ensure quality data analysis, interpretation, communication planning & data disclosure/dissemination.
• Ensures collection of insights to deliver high quality medical communication that enables the most impactful dialogue and interactions with customers.
• Identifies and drives opportunities to enhance processes, tools, operating procedures, and outsourcing strategy to ensure consistent delivery and alignment of standards
• Stakeholder Engagement:
• Fostering collaborative relationships with academic & clinical experts, publishers, medical associations & other relevant key stakeholder groups; participating in external initiatives to foster trust and respect amongst academic and medical publishing community
• Partners with TA Medical Communication Leads, Market Medical and other stakeholder to assess, plan, and allocate resources (budget, medical writing, biostatistical services) to ensure timely delivery of high-quality medical communications
• Partners externally with 3rd party vendors to ensure the appropriate balance of internal and external execution of work
• Establishes clear metrics aligned & regularly communicates metrics with key medical stakeholders

Other responsibilities:
• High performing, externally focused which emphasizes teamwork, cooperation, personal accountability, and a commitment to quality; models company behaviors and reinforces such behaviors at all levels in the organization
• Ensure preparation for audit and inspection readiness
• Ensuring diversity and inclusion in decision making, organization and talent development

Education:
• Advance scientific degree, PharmD, PhD or MD preferred

Qualifications & Experience
• 3+ years of Pharmaceutical/Healthcare industry experience with a focus on medical communications; experience in both local country & global preferred
• Demonstrated ability to lead strategically, drive performance, build alignment, inform, negotiate and collaborate
• Experience working cross-functional, with cross-cultural project teams, and collaborating across matrix, markets and global geographies
• MS Office and iEnvision
• Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment & demonstrated success driving optimal business results in a large complex corporate environment with multiple priorities and tight timelines
• Ability to manage timelines and quality of work using strong leadership, organizational, communication, facilitation and interpersonal skills
• Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills with exceptional time management skills
• Experience leading medical communications across all phases of drug development and commercialization
• Ability to analyze and interpret trial data
• Ability to influence and negotiate appropriate solutions; ability to establish strong stakeholder relationships
• Ability to flexibly schedule and participate in teleconferences and virtual meetings across different time zones
• Ability to travel (domestically and internationally 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 36.14/hr.