Associate Director, Medical Communications

The Associate Director, Medical Communications, is a strategic leader within Medical Affairs responsible for shaping and executing medical communications plans that support congress strategy, field medical excellence, and cross-functional scientific alignment. The Associate Director, Medical Communications, will play a key cross-functional role supporting the development, coordination, and execution of congress and field medical activities. This individual will serve as a core liaison between scientific/medical communications, field medical teams, and internal stakeholders, driving medical insights and execution excellence to support the organization’s strategic goals. This role will report to the VP, Medical Affairs Neuromuscular.

• Lead medical congress planning in coordination with cross-functional stakeholders
• Manage medical presence logistics, cross-functional congress calendars, and insight capture/reporting tools
• Own the development of congress briefing materials and post-congress reports for internal dissemination
• Prepare slide presentations and summarize key decisions for congress and field team meetings and scientific working groups
• Liaise with agencies and vendors to ensure timely delivery and accuracy of materials
• Manage cross-functional teams for material planning, review, and medical training
• Maintain and regularly update dashboards to track impact, metrics, status, timelines, and deliverables

• Lead scientific content development for the Field Medical Affairs team, in collaboration with the Field Medical Lead
• Review tactics for messaging/lexicon alignment, scientific accuracy, appropriateness for audience, quality, and provide direction to medical communication agencies during development, and reviews
• Ensure consistency of scientific messaging across field medical tools, congress outputs, FAQs, reactive materials, and training content
• Partner with MSLs to drive medical training decks for all publications and FAQs for high-priority or critical publications 

This is a U.S.-based remote role that will require periodic travel to our San Francisco Office, medical congresses, and team meetings.

• Advanced healthcare degree, including PharmD, Ph.D., or MD, required 
• 6+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, with preference for experience in scientific/medical communications and/or field medical 
• Strong writing, communication, and project management skills. Demonstrated success in creating and delivering effective presentations to senior-level audiences and to external or internal authors 
• Experience managing medical content and medical operations
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Relevant experience preferred in rare disease and neuromuscular medicine
• Familiarity with Veeva preferred 

Other:

Travel – 20% time used for travel 

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