Senior Scientific Communications Specialist

Boston Scientific•Marlborough, MA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Scientific Communications Specialist prepares documents supporting clinical evidence planning, presentation, and publication needs for Boston Scientific’s Cardiac Rhythm Management and Diagnostics products. The role supports clinical communications for trials and registries, including AF Solutions, in U.S. and international markets. It also contributes to evidence-generation strategy and ensures clinical data is represented accurately in scientific and other materials. The position is hybrid and requires employees to work in the local office at least three days per week. Relocation assistance and employment-visa sponsorship are not available for this position.

Requirements

Ph.D., Pharm.D., or M.D. plus at least 5 years of related pharmaceutical, medical-device industry, or academic experience (for example, medical writing or clinical research); or MPH, B.Pharm, or M.S. plus at least 8 years of relevant experience.
Solid understanding of scientific or clinical research and the scientific method.
Demonstrated scientific writing ability, such as preparing manuscripts or research grants.
Ability to prepare and deliver scientific presentations, understand their structure and content, and tailor format and content to the topic and audience.
Knowledge of clinical research, device or drug development processes, regulatory requirements, and good clinical practices.
Good understanding of statistical methods and willingness to learn new statistical concepts as needed.
High proficiency with Microsoft Office, especially Word and PowerPoint.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cardiac medical devices.
Skill with Microsoft Excel, Photoshop, Illustrator, EndNote Reference Software, and other scientific graphics software.
Ability to work independently and take initiative.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Solid understanding of human pathophysiology and disease, and ability to learn new and diverse subject areas quickly.
Ability to work within a team and build productive working relationships within and outside the Clinical Communications department.
Strong sense of responsibility and urgency, with ability to take ownership of projects.
Flexibility and ability to manage simultaneous priorities, changing deadlines, and limited resources.

Responsibilities

Prepare manuscripts, abstracts, slide presentations, and poster presentations for scientific meetings in the U.S. and internationally.
Identify and develop scientific partnerships with strategically targeted key opinion leaders (KOLs) focused on CRMDx technologies to generate strategic evidence initiatives.
Solicit and incorporate feedback from KOLs, physicians, and trial investigators on manuscripts, abstracts, slide presentations, and posters.
Support CRMDx clinical communications for clinical trials and registries in AF Solutions in U.S. and international markets.
Review statistical output from medical-device clinical trials and registries and determine appropriate evaluation, interpretation, and presentation of data.
Collaborate with internal medical directors, clinical trial managers, statisticians, and other medical writers on project core teams; interact externally with study investigators, journals, and conference organizers.
Stay current with medical developments and publications on similar and competitor products, and apply this knowledge to communications projects.
Contribute to and develop evidence-generation strategy in partnership with marketing, clinical, regulatory, HEMA, and the Franchise.
Work with marketing and other groups to ensure clinical data is accurately represented in published literature, slide sets, and other materials.
Ensure documents are accurate, high-quality, and prepared on schedule; review documents for appropriate evaluation and presentation of data, methodology, and interpretation.
Help organize and chair publication and presentation plan teams, and coordinate with authors, investigators, internal personnel, journals, editors, and others to implement plans successfully.
Assist other medical writers as project timelines and workload require.