Associate Project Manager – Medical Communications

Overview

Provide project management support to a scientific writer, ensuring end-to-end effective delivery of publication and medical education deliverables across all phases within Sanofi Business Operations.

What you'll do

• Support the writer in developing the scope of work and building the plan and schedule for agreement with internal stakeholders.
• Initiate and amend submissions based on comments, as required.
• Arrange key internal and external stakeholder meetings.
• Track delivery of activities, including managing issues and risks, and support follow-up.
• Support required submission, compliance and approval activities, and ensure compliance with publication processes and end-to-end publication management tools for more than two therapeutic areas with high-priority brands (e.g., iEnvision, previously Datavision/Matrix), updating approval and compliance tools as required (e.g., PromoMats, NAYA).
• Support management of the assigned publication or medical education within the agreed budget.
• Support and manage external spend tracking (e.g., approvals, purchase orders, goods received) as required.
• Support adherence to associated compliance activities and approvals, with internal stakeholders taking accountability for compliance.
• Take the lead in liaising with global stakeholders for publication planning and coordinating medical events.
• Maintain an integrated scientific communication plan with quarterly updates in consultation with Publication Leads.
• Help coordinate medical events, advisory boards and other medical events, as appropriate.
• Track and reconcile publication open access charges.
• Collaborate effectively with scientific communication global and/or local teams and medical content enhancement teams.
• Maintain effective relationships with the medical scientific community within the allocated Global Business Unit and product, to develop education and communication content as required.
• Actively lead and develop SBO operations associates.
• Ensure new technologies are leveraged.
• Ensure publication and medical education materials (slide decks, abstracts, posters, manuscripts etc.) are delivered and stored to agreed timelines and quality.
• Develop tools, technology and processes to constantly improve quality and productivity.
• Support delivery of projects in terms of resourcing, quality, timeliness, efficiency and high technical standards for deliveries made by the medical writing group, including scientific documents and clinical/medical reports.
• Contribute to overall quality enhancement by ensuring high scientific standards for the medical writing group's output.
• Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with applicable regulatory standards.
• Work closely with scientific communication and medical content enhancement teams to ensure end-to-end effective delivery of publication and medical education deliverables.

What you'll need

• 5-8 years post-qualification experience.
• University degree level (graduate degree, preferably in science).
• Stakeholder management skills.
• Communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment.
• Project management skills.
• Scientific/medical writing or communications skills.
• Pharma experience, including but not limited to therapeutic area/domain knowledge exposure and/or publication submission.
• Excellent knowledge of the English language, spoken and written.

Nice to have

• Relevant advanced/postgraduate degree in life sciences, pharmacy or a similar discipline.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad.