Scientific Director

Sciterion – Medical communications that enable positive change in clinical practice to benefit the lives of people living with health issues.
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Sciterion are focused on delivering science that speaks to people. Our mission is to drive excellence in medical affairs including medical education and medical communications. We facilitate meaningful exchange between industry, healthcare professionals and patients.
Our diverse and passionate teams explore, innovate, and develop solutions together delivering credible and compelling medical content via engaging and immersive experiences. We strive to be the positive change we want to see in the world. Join Sciterion and make a difference in healthcare.
We are now recruiting for a Scientific Director to join Sciterion.
The role
You will be a source of scientific, editorial and therapy area expertise within Sciterion, providing strategic direction and management across the business units client accounts. You will lead and coach the wider scientific team to ensure excellence in the delivery of client projects across a wide range of therapy areas.
Key responsibilities
Provide strategic leadership to ensure excellent client relationships
Provide effective line management to ensure training and development opportunities across the team
Ensure optimal allocation of scientific services resource and plan mid to long term account alignment and succession planning
Work in partnership with client services team and business SLT to ensure all account and business objectives are met
Build relationships, and liaise effectively, with the Havas Health & You network, clients and external experts
Proactively provide creative ideas and strategic insights to assist and challenge the client's thinking and planning
Intimately understand client and competitor products, therapy areas, portfolio and commercial strategy in the context of the current and future market
Keep up-to-date with industry codes of practice/legislation and external issues or events that may affect existing or potential accounts, or the business as a whole
Identify and develop opportunities for organic growth, new business and new ideas for Medical Education products
Lead proposal development and present at pitches to secure new business opportunities
Monitor project costs against agreed budgets and discuss any changes to specification with the wider project team and the client at the earliest opportunity
Communicate clearly to team members at all times and budget guidelines and proactively monitor progress against milestones
Establish, and be responsible for maintaining a high quality of medical writing across account teams
Develop, monitor and promote processes for excellent briefing and reviewing
Act as scientific and strategic counsel to ensure internal and external comments are addressed intelligently and question any that are inappropriate, inaccurate or unclear
The person
Degree educated in science or medicine with a strong scientific background, a PhD or Masters would be an advantage
Proven experience of working in a range of therapy areas within a medical communications environment
In depth understanding of UK and European medical regulatory environment
Understanding of the drug development and commercialisation process
You will have a strategic mindset – able to partner with our client services teams to grow and strengthen our client relationships