US Scientific Communications Senior Director

Location:

Wilmington, Delaware

Hybrid: 3 days a week onsite

The Senior Director, US Scientific Communications sets the strategic agenda for the US Scientific Communications function and is accountable for building and evolving a high-performing US Scientific Communications function that defines the overall US medical content development strategy and enhances the quality, reach, and impact of scientific communications deliverables, as well as delivers on license to operate work (Medical Information activities and US Promotional review)

The US Sci Comms Senior Director reports to the Head of US Medical Excellence, and partners closely with the core functions under the US Medical Excellence team, US Medical Affairs and US Commercial Brand and Therapy Areas teams, Global Scientific Communications, Promotional Regulatory Affairs, Legal, Compliance, Global Business Services (GBS), enterprise digital teams, and external agencies or platform partners

• Functional strategy and transformation:
  Set the long-term vision, priorities, and transformation agenda for US Scientific Communications, ensuring the function drives scientific narrative pull-through, strategic impact, and measurable value across US BBU
• US content strategy and global-to-local evolution:
  Define and lead the US medical content strategy, including reimagining the global-to-local process to improve prioritization, relevance, reuse, governance, and delivery of high-impact scientific content.
• Evolve and lead the current operating model supporting Medical Information and promotional review activities, identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance efficiency, quality, and stakeholder experience while maintaining regulatory compliance.
• Content excellence and performance:
  Establish standards, KPIs, and feedback loops that elevate quality, speed, accessibility, discoverability, compliance, and measurable content impact.
• Innovation and AI-enabled transformation:
  Champion future-ready approaches, including agentic AI and automation, to modernize content creation, review, delivery, and workflow design.
• Future-ready operating model:
  Build and evolve a modern Sci Comms operating model that integrates license-to-operate responsibilities with scalable content strategy, agile ways of working, and continuous improvement.

• US Medical and TA partnership:
  Partner with US Medical, TA, and Commercial leaders to align Sci Comms priorities with Medical Plans, brand needs, key milestones, and business objectives.
• Global Scientific Communications partnership:
  Partner with Global Sci Comms to improve content pull-through while ensuring US insights, market needs, customer trends, and performance metrics shape global planning.
• Enterprise thought leadership:
  Serve as a strategic enterprise partner, bringing Sci Comms expertise, innovation, and best practices into broader US business priorities.
• GBS and internal partner leadership:
  Coordinate both GBS and in-house delivery collaborations to ensure clear service build, sourcing, demand management, quality oversight, and handling of blocking issues.

• Resource and milestone readiness:
  Plan and manage resources to support TA priorities and ensure readiness for launches, data readouts, congresses, and other critical business moments.
• Financial and vendor stewardship:
  Lead budget planning and oversee agency, third-party, and vendor investments to ensure spend is strategically allocated and tied to measurable value.
• Talent and capability development:
  Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing Sci Comms team, advancing capabilities in content strategy, innovation, operational excellence, and enterprise…