Scientific Editorial Lead
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Scientific editorial lead guiding oncology publications for Amiculum, a pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and health technology communications agency. Leading scientific teams, client strategy, and high-quality abstracts, posters, and manuscripts.
Responsibilities:
- Provide scientific leadership for a fast-paced, growing global oncology publications account
- Take responsibility for the development, delivery, and scientific quality of materials through delegation, briefing, and review
- Challenge briefs and provide scientific and strategic input on complex publications deliverables, including abstracts, posters, and manuscripts
- Champion high scientific standards and review other writers’ work for scientific accuracy, clear story flow, and alignment with client and brand objectives
- Lead, inspire, mentor, and develop the scientific team through direction, guidance, delegation, briefing, review, and constructive feedback
- Act as the primary scientific point of contact for clients, building senior-level relationships and providing strategic recommendations
- Partner with the commercial account lead on account performance, financial goals, resourcing, and forward planning
- Oversee resource use, anticipate capacity needs, and help ensure high-quality delivery on time and within budget
- Build collaborative partnerships across Amiculum and share best practices and learnings across teams
Requirements:
- A strong academic background in life sciences
- Extensive medical communications experience, including significant experience leading publications accounts within a healthcare communications agency
- Proven scientific leadership, with the ability to challenge briefs, shape strategic scientific stories, review complex content, and maintain consistently high standards
- The confidence and credibility to act as a senior scientific partner for clients and medical experts, providing clear, evidence-based recommendations
- Experience leading, mentoring, and developing scientific teams through effective delegation, briefing, review, and constructive feedback
- Strong strategic and commercial awareness, including an understanding of scope, budgets, recoverability, and resource planning
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to build strong partnerships across scientific, commercial, and specialist teams
- The ability to anticipate challenges, prioritize effectively, and keep complex programs moving forward while maintaining high standards
- Must be based in the USA
- Must have the right to work in the USA
- Must be based in one of: Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, or Texas
- Résumé and cover letter required
Benefits:
- Remote and hybrid working options as standard
- Continual learning and professional development opportunities
- Two annual bonus schemes
- 25 days’ vacation allowance (plus 9 public holidays)
- Health and life insurance
- Supportive working environment
- Reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment and selection process
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