Portfolio Director and Team Lead – Scientific

Portfolio Director and Team Lead - Scientific

Posted on: March 20, 2025

Closing: April 19, 2025

Position Type: Full Time

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to lead with impact, collaborate with a dynamic team, and shape the future of medical communications.

Role responsibilities

How will you make an impact at Envision Pharma Group?

Portfolio leadership, strategy and planning

  • Provide overarching scientific, strategic, and tactical direction/leadership.
  • Develop and maintain strong working relationships with external stakeholders, engaging in discussions of science and strategy with both clients and external experts.
  • Drive and lead client relationships, developing action plans, leading partnership discussions and completing regular client health checks.
  • Be responsible for the long-term success of your portfolio, driving initiatives to grow the business and add value to clients through innovation and efficient and effective delivery.

Delivery team oversight

  • Provide up-to-date expert knowledge across the therapy area, client and competitor products, the market, the compliance/regulatory environment (general and client-specific), and international standards for disclosing medical/scientific content.
  • Ensure that your team develops high-quality, scientifically accurate, strategically aligned, ethical, and compliant content that realizes client and thought-leader objectives and passes client medical/legal review.
  • Oversee and direct the development of content for a range of project types and writing styles.
  • Drive scientific strategy development, making recommendations on communication approaches for optimal support of our client's strategic objectives.
  • Critically review the team's work and provide feedback to ensure scientific accuracy and strategic alignment.

People/line management

  • Review business needs and identify appropriate opportunities and challenges for team members, ensuring optimal team development and retention.
  • Proactively offer mentorship across the team, from less experienced line managers to other senior Scientific team members (e.g. Senior Medical Writers, Scientific Director, Content Specialist).
  • Review business needs across the assigned portfolio and manage/negotiate team resource.

Business development:

  • Drive and lead the development of scientific content for new business opportunities/proposals, for both organic growth within assigned accounts and wider new business opportunities, participating in pitch presentations.
  • Build and develop an in-depth knowledge of EPG multichannel business offerings, keeping up to date with market developments, recognizing and proactively identifying new project/program opportunities through interactions with clients and external experts.

Do you have what we are looking for?

Skills & expertise

  • An advanced degree (or equivalent relevant experience) in a life sciences or clinical discipline.
  • 10 years of medical communications (or HEOR/market access, as appropriate) experience, preferably with experience gained across both publications and non-publications medcomms deliverables.
  • Experience of working within a Medical Communications Agency.
  • In-depth knowledge of oncology.
  • Ability to interpret, evaluate, and communicate (in a variety of formats and styles) complex scientific and clinical data.
  • Proven ability to lead a large medcomms (publications and/or non-publications) program, ideally within a global environment.
  • Proven line management experience – medium-sized account team (5–10 people).

Portfolio Director and Team Lead - Scientific

Posted on: March 20, 2025

Closing: April 19, 2025

Position Type: Full Time

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