Scientific Services Director (EXPIRED)
Chester
Executive Positions
Annual
Permanent
- Lead the strategic direction of the inScience Communications business unit from a Scientific Services perspective
- Develop all Scientific Services staff within the Medical Communications business unit to their full potential and to meet customer and business needs:
- Identify and fill skill gaps, especially in strategic communications, new communications media and specific writing skills
- Provide coaching, mentoring and training where required
- Encourage and provide constructive feedback
- Develop writing skills by identifying projects that match learning and development requirements of new and existing writers
- Develop business planning and commercial skills of new and existing writers, including proposal writing, pitching and recommendations for growth within organic accounts
- Implement performance management systems for Scientific Services
- Develop writers' objectives and personal development plans
- Conduct learning & development analysis and performance reviews
- Monitor progress of objectives and personal development plans
- Accurately forecast sales, revenue and costs and identify risks and opportunities
- Drive to revenue targets by optimizing editorial resource to minimize delay in revenue uptake
- Drive profit, by managing costs
- Reconcile freelance costs with budget
- Monitor and approve editorial-related budgeted costs within the team
- Provide recommendations to the -VP Global Medical Communications for unbudgeted expenditure
- Provide recommendations to the budget and latest estimate process
- Provide recommendations to the VP Global Medical Communications for salary reviews and promotions
- Record and monitor actual time spent on a project against budgeted time, and ensure timesheets are completed in a timely manner
- Monitor writers' adherence to budget and utilization rates and take remedial action if required
- Organise adequate editorial resource to meet current and projected workload within the business unit:
- Manage recruitment and selection of Scientific Services staff (contract and permanent in line with agreed budget/forecast, terms and conditions and skill requirements
- Utilise the most appropriate editorial resource (in-house or out-sourced) to achieve project goals Liaise with New Zealand Editorial management to ensure appropriate use of resource . - Liaise with appropriate Commercial Services/business development representatives to agree on commercial priority of projects to guide effective resource allocation, if necessary
- Work with the other Scientific Services Directors to improve editorial efficiency and standards to meet the business needs of the team. - Work with other Scientific Services Directors to ensure key editorial processes have SOPs, and monitor writers' compliance with SOPs and standards
- Work with other Scientific Services Directors to ensure job descriptions, job standards and training modules/courses for editorial staff are available and up to date
- Review scientific content for a range of outputs according to client needs, internal quality standards and agreed specifications, budgets and timeframes:
- Monitor quality, style and accuracy and provide timely, consistent and constructive feedback
- Take remedial action, when required
- Ensure that projects reflect a thorough understanding of clients' marketing objectives and that key messages are supported appropriately
- Liaise with clients (with Commercial Services) to ensure that client expectations are being met
- Manage all aspects of delivery of scientific content that meets client needs, internal quality standards and timelines:
- Ensure that new products and services are offered to clients as appropriate
- Delegate work as appropriate
- Apply in depth knowledge of the medical communications industry, and the therapeutic use and strategic marketing of pharmaceuticals to account plans, strategic publication plans, strategic communication programs, proposals and pitches:
- Contribute significantly to briefing and brainstorming meetings
- Ensure that proposals, pitches and business development activities are based on highest quality scientific and editorial services and provide appropriate senior Scientific Services support to client interactions (including pitches)
- Maintain broad awareness of developments in relevant therapeutic areas and discipline, editorial issues within publishing and the PharmaSolutions product portfolio
- Provide commercial, medical communications and strategic marketing expertise to complement Account Management in developing new opportunities
- Work with other members of the inScience Communications business unit management team to manage the business unit
- Support team working principles within Scientific Services, account teams, business development, medical communications, and other departments
- Attend and contribute to team and account meetings
- Collaborate with other teams regarding operational process optimization
- Leadership skills
- Financial and business management skills
- Ability to coach and mentor
- Ability to interact effectively with clients
- Presentation skills
- Resource management and planning skills
- Ability to comply with SOPs and standards
- Recruitment, selection and interviewing skills
- Medical writing skills
- Critical reviewing skills
- Ability to delegate effectively
- Problem solving skills
- IT skills
- Sound scientific knowledge in a broad range of therapeutic areas
- Good understanding inScience Communications products and services and business goals
- Working knowledge of and experience in the medical communications business
- Working knowledge of and experience in the strategic marketing of pharmaceuticals
- Working knowledge of and experience in budgets and costing procedures
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