Senior Manager, Scientific Content

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Requirements:

• BA/BS degree in life sciences
• Minimum of 10+ years of experience working in life sciences or relevant experience developing scientific content or as a copywriter, or PhD in life sciences plus 4+ years of experience working in life sciences
• Ability to translate scientific information into effective verbal and visual practical communication
• Audience-focused; able to tailor tone of content to intended audience
• Results oriented, accurate, and analytical
• Knowledge of the drug development process and clinical development, especially for biomarker-driven development programs.
• Ability to plan out content timelines and manage multiple projects at once to hit those timelines
• Proven capability to research and then write relevant content in areas with minimal existing expertise.
• Capability to self-manage and work independently and remotely, while also able to work within and across department collaboratively
• Willingness to work with a team across multiple time zones (US and Europe)
• Must be able to read, write, speak fluently and comprehend the English language

Responsibilities:

• Plan out the content development timeline in support of the overall marketing strategy and business needs
• Oversee the development of white papers, case studies, blog articles and external articles, and contribute to webinar planning and webinar content development
• Write copy or manage external writing resources as needed in order to generate white papers, case studies, blog articles, etc.
• Work with the internal design team to review and approve content layout and designs – ensuring that content such as white papers and webinar slides look polished and that selected design and imagery are relevant to the content
• Collaborate with internal (and potentially external) SMEs to plan out content topics, outlines, and to provide content reviews, ensuring scientific accuracy of content
• Regularly meet with BD team leaders to gather their input on most needed sales support content (such as new case studies) and incorporate those needs into the overall content development
• Track key conference submission deadlines and provide reminders with suggestions for submissions to those conferences
• Maintain both an internal and external-facing scientific content repository
• Train BD teams on new content as needed
• Ensure consistently high quality standards are maintained with regards to content