Associate Scientific Director - Medical Communications

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity,  SenseMaking allows us to  transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

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Location: Remote and/or hybrid, US or Ontario province

About the role

As an Associate Scientific Director you will be a senior member of the Scientific Services team with extensive experience in the global medical communications industry. You will combine a clear delivery role with a strong commercial focus, taking on account direction responsibilities for a key Avalere Health account and leading scientific and editorial roles on specific projects as appropriate.

You will provide high-level strategic input both internally and to clients, supporting team leads, Scientific Directors, and the Client Service Team in identifying and converting new opportunities. Your role will be defined by scientific and commercial excellence within your accounts, recognizing significant scientific and market developments and effectively interpreting and communicating these both internally and externally.

• Content development across a range of project types in medical affairs/commercial, with effective briefing and reviewing in line with client objectives.
• Onboarding and mentoring of junior writers to develop in-depth scientific knowledge.
• Lead scientific client relationships within an account or large workstream and responsible for scientific accuracy and oversight (including resourcing as required) of account or workstream.
• Understand and anticipate client objectives and develop super/strategic reviewing skills, including strategic approach to problem-solving and projects and develop experience in working on strategic projects as part of wider team.
• Support strategies with organic growth/business development.
• Direct line management of junior colleagues and training/mentoring of other account team members.

• Your background could be medical communications, or healthcare advertising/marketing. We are ideally looking for 6+ years of experience.
• You will have worked on a range of medical communications projects – which could include congress work, creative and copy design and co-creation of content.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a scientific (or equivalent) area of study essential; post-graduate research experience an advantage to ensure strong scientific grounding.
• Strong client services skills with a commitment to superior quality.
• Self-motivated, professional, detail-oriented, and possess excellent oral and written communication skills
• Comfortable working under pressure within tight deadlines.
• Advanced PC or Mac experience with MS Office Suite and functional experience with Adobe Acrobat Pro.

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits. 

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