Manager, Medical Communications

Who we are

Together, we’re on a mission to make good health more affordable and accessible, to help millions around the world enjoy healthier lives. It’s a mission that bonds our people across nearly 60 countries and a rich, diverse variety of nationalities and backgrounds. Working here means working with the world’s leading manufacturer of generic medicines, and the proud producer of many of the products on the World Health Organization’s Essential Medicines List. Today, at least 200 million people around the world take one of our medicines every single day. An amazing number, but we’re always looking for new ways to continue making a difference, and new people to make a difference with.

The opportunity

The Manager, Medical Communications (MMC) supports publication strategy and plan development, as well as manage the delivery of medical/scientific publication activities for Teva’s therapeutic areas (TAs), as needed. The MMC also provides expertise to a wide variety of communication-related projects in the assigned TA.  The successful candidate’s experience will add to the quality and outcome of business decisions and contribute external communications activities, for example with external authors, agencies and consultants, as appropriate. The MMC may have responsibility for multiple publication plans across products or indications. The MMC reports to the Director of Medical Communications.

Location

Croatia, Romania or Poland

How you’ll spend your day

• Support the development, maintenance, and implementation of medical communication strategy, plans, and tactics in the assigned therapeutic area(s) and manage relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Understand and interpret clinical trial data, the literature and associated therapeutic conditions
• Coordinate cross-functional publication strategy and core teams in the development of medical publications and scientific congress strategy and plans
• Ensure execution of publication plans is consistent with department objectives and TA strategy
• Ensure oversight of publication records in Teva’s publication tracking tool
• Understand industry and publication guidelines, ICMJE and GPP in particular
• Provide input into key medical/scientific communications concepts and terminology development
• Be accountable for the timely delivery of high quality, message-focused medical communications to target audiences
• Establish and leverage relationships with external experts, clinical trial investigators, journal editors, and congress secretariats to drive high quality medical communications activities
• Develop and maintain general or special issues publication advisory boards for assigned therapeutic areas, including recruitment of advisors, meeting planning and execution, content development, and documentation of action items 
• Forecast financial resources with business case preparation and oversight as required and to deliver the publication plans within budget
• Integrate medical communications agencies/contract freelancers as part of the extended team for medical communications activities
• Acquire and maintain thorough understanding of industry and publications standards with respect to quality, authorship and appropriateness of medical/scientific communications
• Ensure that medical/scientific communications activities are within compliance

Your experience and qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or Communications degree required; advanced scientific degree preferred (MD, PhD, PharmD)
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in Industry with relevant medical/scientific focus    
• Knowledge of Good Publication Practices and ICMJE Guidelines
• Knowledge of Global Medical Affairs in the Pharmaceutical/Biotech Industry
• Proven track record of establishing strong partnerships with senior stakeholders as well as delivering medical communications plans and tactics
• Project management skills and financial acumen
• Experience with management of publication projects via publication tracking database (i.e. Datavision, PubStrat)
• Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
• Strong client engagement and relationship management skills 
• Ability to influence and work with cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects
• Experience with Medical Affairs and Medical/Scientific Communication practices and processes 

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