Director, Scientific Communications - Remote
About Edgewise Therapeutics:
At Edgewise, we are on a mission to discover new medicines that improve the lives of patients facing serious muscle disease. Our intimate knowledge of muscle biology and biophysics along with our ability to identify and design muscle specific precision small molecules have enabled us to rapidly advance our skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle product candidates into the clinic while also building a robust pre-clinical pipeline. With this focus on therapeutics designed to protect and improve muscle health, our goal is to dramatically enhance the lives of people living with progressive muscle disorders.
We have assembled an experienced and highly motivated leadership team with a strong track record in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry to build the leading, global muscle disease biopharmaceutical company. Come join us make a significant difference in the lives of patients!
About the Position:
The Director, Scientific Communications plays an integral role in supporting Edgewise Therapeutics’ ongoing development programs. This position resides within the Medical Affairs Organization and will ensure the development and management of the strategic planning and execution of scientific communication tactics, including publication plans, medical communication initiatives, and scientific training materials.
The Director, Scientific Communications is responsible for leading the scientific communications team. The ideal candidate requires a strong background in medical writing, strategic communication, and team leadership. The Director of Medical Communications reports to the VP of Medical Affairs.
Essential Job Duties and Functions:
- Develop and implement strategic communication plans including three-year publication plan to support clinical trials, regulatory submissions and product launches.
- Lead all aspects of scientific responses to medical inquiries, develop medical information materials and support medical education initiatives.
- Provide oversight and hands-on management of writing projects including but not limited to manuscripts, abstracts, posters, presentations, and publication extenders. This involves guiding projects from planning to submission, ensuring adherence to timelines, industry guidelines and company processes.
- Prepare, analyze, interpret and summarize data.
- Oversee development of scientific content and support for scientific communications activities such as internal scientific trainings, advisory boards, medical booth content, field-based medicine resources, and scientific platforms; ensure all materials undergo the appropriate medical content approval process.
- Build and lead effective partnerships with internal stakeholders, including Medical Affairs directors, Clinical Development, Biostatistics, Legal, Discovery, Field Medical, HEOR and cross-functional members of publication teams.
- Build and maintain project timelines, communicate project status to stakeholders and anticipate and mitigate risks to timely delivery.
- Coordinate and review, approval, and other applicable activities related to the development of scientific communication projects.
- Implement, adhere to, and share knowledge of good publication practices and authorship criteria and requirements.
- Establish strong working relationships with authors and other external experts.
- Manages relationships with external medical communications agency service providers.
- Apply effective project management skills to ensure timely completion of high-quality deliverables within budget.
- Develop and manage the scientific communications budget.
- Contribute to the strategic, operational, and tactical planning for medical affairs.
- The Director, Scientific Communications reports to the VP of Medical Affairs.
- Travel will vary, plan on 10-20%.
Required Education, Experience and Skills:
Minimum:
- Advance degree in life sciences or related field (MS, PhD, PharmD)
- Minimum of 5-10 years of experience in pharmaceutical medical communications, publications, or medical content development. Prior pharmaceutical company publications experience within the pharmaceutical or biotech industry required
- 2 years of leadership/management of Medical Information Teams/projects.
- Expertise in drug information communication, management, and promotional material review
- Strong working knowledge of current good publications practices and guidelines and medical writing guidelines
- Experience delivering Medical Information services at a global and local level
- Experience with publication management systems (e.g. PubsHub, Datavision)
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, leadership and organizational skills
Preferred:
- Therapeutic experience in cardiovascular
- Previous experience managing HEOR scientific communications is strongly preferred
Salary range: $180,000 - $240,000, title and salary commensurate with experience
Our Benefits: We are proud to offer health benefits, a discretionary bonus plan, stock option grants. a stock purchase plan, a 401(k) with match and paid time off to our team members as part of their compensation plan.
There is no deadline because the employer accepts applications on an ongoing basis.
Edgewise does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies for this position. Please do not send resumes to Edgewise employees or the company location. Edgewise is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.
