Director, Medical & Scientific Communications

Director, Medical & Scientific Communications

(Agency Equivalent = Sr VP, Client Services)

The Director of Medical and Scientific Communications is responsible for managing client relationships, delivering projects in alignment with operational excellence standards, and leading dedicated team. This role is accountable and responsible for the assigned clients both in terms of growing and nurturing relationship and ensuring all deliverables meet or exceed client expectations. The Director is also responsible for day-to-day success of their team and continued growth and development of individual team members.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Client Relations and Brand Management

• Establish meaningful, professional relationships with client stakeholders, including gaining understanding of their individual roles, communication preferences, personal motivators, and the desired outcomes for the brand, their projects, and our team.
• Ensure Simpson’s brand is properly represented and promoted throughout client interactions,
• communications, and deliverables.
• Partner with client stakeholders to develop strategies to ensure they can attain desired outcomes.
• Be trusted partner that client sees as providing added value to ensure long, continuous relationship.
• Identify opportunities to provide additional services that will assist client in attaining desired outcomes. Discuss opportunity with Marketing to assist in process.
• Attend and ensure success and a positive experience for all key client meetings, inclusive of weekly client status calls, brand planning meetings, workshops, advisory boards, speaker trainings, and congresses.
• Hold monthly one-on-one account check in meetings with each client to ensure account is in good standing and identify any needed areas of improvement.

Project Management

• Responsible for management of all projects for assigned clients ensuring that deliverable meets operational excellence standards (on budget, on time, error-free, on strategy, and within all relevant policies and guidelines).
• Ensure that both Simpson and third-party vendors time and expenses are not more than project budget.
• Ensure project team members are communicating effectively with other Simpson internal teams and third[1]party vendors regarding expectations, timelines, quality, and budgets.
• Monitor project progress and identify client requests for changes in deliverables, timing, and/or project goals. Communicate all scope changes to all other project team members, Marketing, and Finance through internal CCR process and/or internal scope change process, where needed.
• Work with project team leads in preparing, updating, and/or reviewing monthly phasing reports for all assigned clients to ensure accuracy of amounts invoiced to clients. Ensure timely communication with Finance of phasing reports.
• Adhere to all standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and drive internal project team adherence to PIT Crew, Basecamp, CCR, Good to Go, and Weekly client update meetings, sign off SOPs.
• Maintain working knowledge of managed products, disease areas, and brand and company strategy and goals.
• Collaborate with Marketing in preparing and delivering client pitches, presentations, and metrics ensuring quality, accuracy, and timeliness.
• Ensure full delivery and management of all scoped work and/or identify any projects at risk/canceled and work with Marketing to propose new solutions to realize the full PO amount.

Internal Team Management

• Lead by example. Adhere to all SOP’s and enforce staff’s adherence to same.
• Ensure all staff members are preparing timesheets weekly. Ensure staff understanding of appropriate SHEP numbers to code time and importance of reporting all time worked.
• Ensure all staff members are preparing travel and entertainment expense reports in accordance company procedures.
• Ensure staff understands responsibilities and duties both for specific projects assigned and as relates to SOPs.
• Supervise and train staff members.
• Develop and encourage staff to grow and learn by creating opportunities to assume new responsibilities, expanding skill sets, and providing constructive feedback.
• Create a positive work environment, fostering a team approach, encouraging open communication.
• Weekly one-on-one meetings with all direct reports.
• Prepare annual performance reviews and discuss with direct reports. For new hires, prepare performance review after 90 days and discuss with direct reports. If needed, prepare performance improvement plans and discuss with direct reports.
• Assign projects to staff in accordance with staff experience, growth, and bandwidth.
• Participate in Leadership team meetings and activities.
• Identify needed modifications and/or new systems, tools, and processes to enable team and company effectiveness and efficiencies.
• Identify needed resources for teams in order to deliver client business.
• Liaise with other departments and cross-functional team members to deliver projects as needed inclusive of changes in scope, priority, timing, and/or content.

OTHER DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Approve staff timesheets, PTO requests, and expense reports.
• Prepare weekly timesheet.
• Approve invoices for third-party vendors engaged to provide services for assigned clients.
• Manage and attend relevant internal meetings, as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES NEEDED TO PERFORM THIS ROLE:

• Minimum 12-15 years’ experience in medical communications, healthcare marketing, or scientific agency.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Strong communicator both in written and verbal forms with a proven ability to effectively establish and nurture client, internal, and staff relationships.
• Exceptional people management and mentoring experience is required.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities. Strong organization and time management skills.
• Ability to leverage internal and external relationships to the benefit of the project, client, and Simpson.
• Must be efficient and skilled at using Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, etc.). Experience with
• Basecamp or similar project management systems is preferred.
• Extensive skills with web-conferencing tools such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and WebEx.
• An efficient and persuasive speaker and writer who can communicate effectively to a wide range of audiences.
• Great team player with a strong drive and willingness to take initiative.
• Curiosity and aptitude for continuous thinking, learning and collaboration
• Ability to travel to meet with stakeholders as necessary (up to 25% of time).

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at https://jobs.iqvia.com

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all, including veterans and candidates with disabilities. https://jobs.iqvia.com/eoe

IQVIA’s ability to operate and provide certain services to customers and partners necessitates IQVIA and its employees meet specific requirements regarding COVID-19 vaccination status. https://jobs.iqvia.com/covid-19-vaccine-status

The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $152,900.00 - $283,900.00. The actual base pay offered may vary based on a number of factors including job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience; location; and/or schedule (full or part-time). Dependent on the position offered, incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered, in addition to a range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.