Associate Scientific Director - London, United Kingdom - Langland

Langland

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Company Description

Who we are

Langland, a Publicis Health company, is the only health communications agency that thinks further across Clinical Trial Experience, Medical Strategy & Education, Public Relations & Policy, and Advertising, to create unique value with visionary clients.

What we believe
Health brings us together.

In the diseases we suffer, the medicines we create, and the causes we champion, health shows us our collective humanity.

When we break the barriers that divide us, when we think further, we can create healthier futures, together.

A passion for craft
Having expert thinking is only part of our story.

To ensure excellence in everything we make, we have centred our disciplines around three essential crafts:
science, strategy and creativity.

Job Description:

As an Associate Scientific Director at Langland, you will lead a high performing medical writing team and have accountability for scientific knowledge and content
development on one large account and/or several smaller accounts.

You will Think Further to inspire and motivate the team; optimize medical writing practices; and proactively develop and advocate for individual members and the wider team, both internally and externally.

You will be seen as a leader of scientific knowledge, content creation, and medical communications activities.

Key responsibilities:

Lead scientific pitch research and presentation for Medical Strategy & Education (MSE) opportunities
Provide active counsel and recommendations to clients, partnering with client teams to develop editorial and content plans and optimise the impact of the writing team
Provide effective leadership for a medical writing team for a midsized portion of business, based on revenue and team members
Support Client Services with resource alignment to optimise team performance and people development; supporting with recruitment as needed to optimise team performance
Provide critical review of materials ad hoc, without expert level knowledge
Establish a network across Langland to access skills/capabilities as needed to elevate work
Establish strong external relationships that can be leveraged for business benefit
Support the development of therapy area and/or brand scientific strategy (in collaboration with the Scientific Strategy Team where appropriate)

Qualifications:

Considerable proven experience within a medical communications agency or an in-house pharma med comms team, preferably within a medical writing team, demonstrating:

Inclusive, inspirational leadership
Overarching scientific and content leadership for accounts
Responsibility for maintaining high editorial and scientific standards across a team
Development of writing talent through direct line management and training
An aptitude for identifying opportunities/threats and developing appropriate solutions
An ability to motivate and inspire people, and elevate standards of content curation
Strong internal, client and expert relationships

Additional Information

An inclusive workplace
The more diverse our team, the more imaginative, intelligent and inspirational our culture and our work will become. Here are some of the ways we help promote diversity at Publicis Health.

Recruitment

Diversity & Inclusion management
Anonymised CV submissions
Mandatory unconscious bias training
Career and school programmes to build industry access for people from mixed socioeconomic backgrounds

Culture