# Scientific Lead (Medical Communications)

**Company**: ICON
**Location**: Philadelphia, PA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

ICON Global Medical Communications (GMC) is looking for a Scientific Lead - Inflammation/Immunology to join their team.

As a Scientific Lead, you will build on the responsibilities of a Sr. Medical Writer and take on additional project-level content development and management responsibilities.

Your primary responsibility will be independent approval of scientific/clinical content for assigned projects/tasks.

Responsibilities:

- Content oversight and quality control responsibilities, including review of assigned materials for accuracy and quality

- Mentoring and developing junior writing staff

- Contributing scientific and therapeutic insights

- Collaboration with the Scientific Manager and account managers to help ensure adherence to agreed-upon timelines

- Helping to oversee all aspects of project development from initiation to completion, including escalating issues with financial impacts

Scientific/medical writing and content-development support:

- Writing manuscripts, posters, abstracts, slide decks, and/or other deliverables requiring scientific/medical writing support

- Identify and obtain required/helpful background materials, including from client

- Collaborating with editorial support staff to provide necessary background and technical information

- Participate in onboarding and mentoring of new and junior medical writers

- Conduct background research and writing support for new business proposals and organic growth opportunities

Requirements:

- Advanced degree, preferably PhD but PharmD and MD may also be considered

- Prior experience in a medical publications/medical communications agency

- Minimum of 4+ years experience of high-level content development and management activities in the medical communication agency setting

- 3 years as a Senior Medical Writer, strongly preferred

- CMPP™/MAPPS Certification, great to have

- Demonstrable history of relevant high-level writing support and review

- People management and client relationship skills preferred

- Ability to work efficiently with network directories/databases

- Familiarity and ability to work with industry standard resources

- Ability to work with cross-functional teams

Benefits:

- Competitive base salary and performance related incentives

- Health and wellbeing programmes including medical, dental, and vision coverage where applicable

- Retirement and pension plans

- Life assurance and disability coverage

- Employee assistance programmes and wellbeing resources

- Learning and development opportunities through structured training and career pathways

## Skills

### Required
- medical writing
- content development
- scientific research
- project management

### Nice to have
- CMPP™/MAPPS Certification
- people management
- client relationship skills

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