Associate Medical Director

Can you reach people with just a few words?

You have a natural ability to convey complex scientific concepts with clarity and impact. Whether you’re expressing your own ideas or refining someone else’s, your communications are concise, compelling, and grounded in deep medical expertise. You’re equally skilled at developing content strategy and execution, making you a trusted partner to both internal teams and external clients. Does this sound like you?

In this role, you will be responsible for creating high-quality scientific communications and educational materials that inform, inspire, and engage. Specifically, you will:

• Develop scientific educational content including slide decks, advisory boards, scientific platforms, and publications (posters, manuscripts)
• Conduct and communicate background research/information as needed
• Work with clients and other team members to develop content flow in alignment with client’s strategic needs and objectives
• Develop high quality, accurate content with impactful visualization as needed
• Annotate content to source references
• Prepare materials for legal and regulatory review with clients
• Triage stakeholders or authors feedback and updating content accordingly
• Collaborate with account counterparts to track deadlines
• Quickly develop expertise in multiple disease areas
  • Experience in oncology, ophthalmology and/or immunology is a plus but not required
• Remaining current on the latest clinical trial data and treatment trends
• Prioritize/organize workload and manage multiple workstreams
• Conduct background and literature research to support new business efforts
• Mentor and assist in training junior level team members
• Build client relationships, through strategic partnership and understanding client goals
• Participate independently in client-facing meetings
• Travel (e.g. advisory board, conferences, new business pitches) or on-site client visits maybe be required around 10-15% of time

Essential Requirements:

• Education: PhD, MD, PharmD
• 2-3 years of pharma or medical communication agency experience
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with account teams, other writers, editors, creative teams, physicians and clients
• Analyze and synthesize complex information from multiple sources
• Communicate medical/technical information to a wide variety of audiences
• Work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, team-oriented environment
• Efficiently prioritize multiple tasks and provide effective direction to others; can quickly evaluate the resources necessary to accomplish a goal and put those into action
• Microsoft Office Suite experience

Desired Requirements:

• EndNote reference management database experience
• Prism GraphPad

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $100,000 to $115,000. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions may include eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and / or individual performance.

At Cadent, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our Talent Network to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Cadent is a US Medical Communications company with employees located across the US. The home office is in New York City. Cadent specializes in high science, high touch peer to peer medical communications. The company excels in translating complex science into compelling messages that deliver value and action. Cadent builds relationships and collaboration between the biopharmaceutical industry and healthcare professionals.

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Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Syneos Health has a voluntary COVID-19 vaccination policy. We strongly encourage all employees to be fully vaccinated. Additionally, certain local governments or Syneos Health customers may have vaccine requirements that apply to some of our employees. These employees are required to submit proof of vaccination to Syneos Health and maintain compliance with these requirements.
At Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position will include a competitive compensation package, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos Health complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.