Job Title: Scientific Strategy Director
JOB PURPOSE
Support organic growth and new business development by providing strategic scientific leadership on aligned accounts and serve as the scientific strategy expert for new business opportunities across the growing Fishawack Group, while also developing key therapy area expertise and providing training/mentoring for senior scientific team members.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
The Scientific Strategy Director is a scientific expert who has three key areas of responsibilities:
- Provides scientific and strategic expertise to new business development activities, researching and developing content for proposal/pitch presentation (e.g. landscape and competitor analyses, SWOT, differentiated positioning, scientific narrative), and proactively identifies new business opportunities aligned with FW areas of expertise and client relationships through pipeline analysis, networking opportunities, etc.
- Supports organic growth on allocated accounts, working with CDs/CSDs/ALs to identify opportunities for expanded service offerings and ensuring key strategic deliverables are aligned to client’s business needs and objectives.
- Facilitates the integration of the creative and medical communication business by participating in the Strategic Planning Team and other relevant forums, and works with commercial leads to identify business opportunities for greater shared service offering combining creative and medical expertise.
CORE COMPETENCIES FOR THIS POSITION
(The behaviors, skills and practices required to accomplish the objectives of this position and in the daily conduct of business.)
- Innovation Management: Is good at bringing the creative ideas of others to market; has good judgment about which ideas and suggestions will work; has a sense about managing the creative process of others; can facilitate effective brainstorming; can project how potential ideas may play out in the marketplace.
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future-oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Business Acumen: Able to make good decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment; able to make a quick decision, sometimes with incomplete information and under tight deadlines and pressure; understands the business and is knowledgeable about current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information that could affect the organization.
- Informing: Provides the information people need to know to do their jobs and to feel good about being a member of the team, unit and/or organization; provides individuals information so that they can make accurate decisions; is timely with information.
- Intellectual Horsepower: Is bright and intelligent; deals with concepts and complexity comfortably; described as intellectually sharp, capable, and agile.
- Independently Responsible: Doesn't shirk personal responsibility; functions well independently; can be counted on when times are tough; is comfortable working alone on a tough assignment.
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, & ABILITIES
(To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and ability required.)
Education: Masters or doctoral degree in the life sciences (e.g. PharmD, MD, or PhD).
Experience: 10+ years of medical writing experience in a medical communications agency that includes experience working on a broad variety of project types and participation in new business opportunities.
Special Knowledge/Skills:
- Proficiency in the use of MS Office, specifically Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
- Proficiency in Internet and PubMed searches.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
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