Global Head of Scientific Communication

Work Your Magic with us! Start your next chapter and join EMD Serono. Ready to explore, break barriers, and discover more? We know you've got big plans - so do we! Our colleagues across the globe love innovating with science and technology to enrich people's lives with our solutions in Healthcare, Life Science, and Electronics. Together, we dream big and are passionate about caring for our rich mix of people, customers, patients, and planet.

That's why we are always looking for curious minds that see themselves imagining the unimaginable with us. United As One for Patients, our purpose in Healthcare is to help create, improve and prolong lives. We develop medicines, intelligent devices and innovative technologies in therapeutic areas such as Oncology, Neurology and Fertility. Our teams work together across 6 continents with passion and relentless curiosity in order to help patients at every stage of life.

Joining our Healthcare team is becoming part of a diverse, inclusive and flexible working culture, presenting great opportunities for personal development and career advancement across the globe.

This role does not offer sponsorship for work authorization. External applicants must be eligible to work in the US.

At the intersection of science, strategy, and patient impact, this role offers a rare opportunity to shape how medical evidence reaches the people who need it most. As Global Head of Scientific Communications, you will lead a global organization of approximately 90 professionals across Scientific Communication Asset Leads, Scientific Content Creation, and Medical Information, setting the strategic direction for how scientific evidence is communicated accurately, objectively, and compliantly to healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, field medical teams, and other Medical Affairs stakeholders.

In this pivotal role, you will define and implement the global Medical Affairs scientific communication strategy across therapeutic areas and the full product lifecycle. You will oversee the planning, development, review, approval, localization, and lifecycle management of scientific communication assets, including modular and omnichannel-ready content, while driving a streamlined medical-legal-regulatory review process. You will provide strategic oversight of global publication plans, ensuring adherence to GPP 2022 and ICMJE recommendations, and lead the global Medical Information strategy to deliver timely, accurate, balanced, and non-promotional responses to inquiries.

As a member of the Global Medical Affairs leadership team, you will partner with Clinical Development, Regulatory, Commercial, Compliance, and Communications functions while retaining Medical Affairs ownership of scientific communication and medical information standards. You will champion the responsible adoption of generative AI and advanced analytics across content development and medical information, ensuring human scientific oversight, quality control, and compliance guardrails are maintained throughout.

You will protect scientific and medical integrity, manage budgets, resources, vendors, and technology investments, and deliver measurable outcomes including content utilization, medical information response service levels, and team engagement.

• Advanced scientific degree (PharmD, MD, or PhD); a Master's degree in a life science with equivalent experience will be considered.
• 12+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, scientific communications, publications, medical information, or medical writing within the biopharmaceutical industry or a similarly regulated environment.
• 8+ years of experience leading global, matrixed, multi-site organizations, including budget…