About the position
Cactus Life Sciences (cactuslifesciences.com) is a leading medical communication company headquartered in Princeton, NJ, with nine global offices. Its expertise lies in delivering scientific content across the product lifecycle with a focus on science, innovation, and efficiency. The company specializes in providing impactful medical strategy, custom operational models, content development and dissemination, and promotion of patient inclusion for biopharmaceutical organizations. Cactus Life Sciences’ scalable solutions cater to the challenges encountered in product development, guiding brands, and organizations towards their future objectives. With a client-centric approach, the company prioritizes understanding their evolving needs and technology trends to drive its growth. Cactus Life Sciences is a subsidiary of Cactus Communications (cactusglobal.com/), a leading science communication and technology company. Please note: While we are a remote-first organization, this role is specifically for candidates located on the East Coast of the US. Cactus Life Sciences is currently looking to add self-motivated, strategy-oriented members to its life sciences team. This is an opportunity to grow your career and make a greater impact on the lives around you.
Responsibilities
- Bring broad knowledge across therapeutic areas and a desire to expand expertise into new fields.
- Lead scientific strategy for client accounts, overseeing content development and providing editorial support.
- Work with clients’ Medical Affairs and Medical Communications teams to develop and execute strategic medical communications initiatives.
- Develop and execute manuscripts, abstracts, posters, review articles, symposia decks, literature searches, gap analyses, strategic publication plans.
- Develop, manage, and track strategy and tactics in partnership with a cross-functional team of internal and client stakeholders.
- Oversee and be accountable for quality of medical communications tactics/deliverables developed by in-house scientific writers.
- Communicate updates on products, medical/regulatory milestones, and industry trends.
- Continuously offer fresh ideas and forward-thinking strategies.
- Work with in-house technology and creative teams on building innovative digital solutions for Medical Affairs and Medical Communications clients.
- Manage team performance and foster the growth of junior writers.
- Work with Account Director to ensure excellence in execution, planning, compliance and consistency with client SOPs, messaging, and publication objectives.
- Build and maintain strong client and medical expert relationships.
- Support new business development, both with existing clients and new prospects as the scientific lead.
- Ensure organic growth through delivery quality and client engagement.
Requirements
- Advanced doctoral-level degree in a scientific discipline.
- At least 5+ years of agency experience as a Senior/Medical Director in a strategic, client-facing role.
- Excellent presentation skills and composure under pressure.
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and guide both internal teams and clients in development of best practices.
- Experience across several therapy areas preferred.
- Integrated scicoms experience required with demonstrated experience on both medical communications and publications accounts.
- Experience with product launch accounts.
- Demonstrated expertise in developing and executing deliverables for both investigational and mature products.
- Experience with developing digital content, and infographics to supplement traditional deliverables and communications.
- Experience of providing congress support and conducting/facilitating advisory board meetings.
- Strong attention to details and editorial skills needed.
- Experience in writing/reviewing deliverables.
- Ability to train and develop junior writers by doing detailed reviews of documents and training sessions.
Nice-to-haves
- Preference for candidates based on the East Coast, as it will involve travel to client locations and attending meetings/congresses both within the US and internationally.
