Executive Director, Head of Scientific Communication & Exchange Center of Excellence
Company: BIOMARIN
Location: San Rafael
Posted on: May 12, 2022
Job Description:
BioMarin (BMRN) is the world leader in delivering therapeutics
that provide meaningful advances to patients who live with serious
and life-threatening rare genetic diseases. We target diseases that
lack effective therapies and affect relatively small numbers of
patients, many of whom are children. These conditions are often
inherited, difficult to diagnose, progressively debilitating and
have few, if any, treatment options. - -BMRN GMAF offers scientific
and clinical expertise to our products through the direction and
planning of scientific communication and exchange, support of
education and research, liaising with the medical community,
response to incoming inquiries about BMRN products and trials, and
leadership of the execution of BioMarin sponsored studies. - -The
SC&E COE has accountability for translating and disseminating
data from our products and disease areas that consistently
positions the value of our drugs through non-promotional,
evidence-based scientific and educational programs that shapes the
market and closes knowledge gaps.Summary Description:The Executive
Director (ED) is accountable for the direction of all major aspects
of SC&E COE activities in alignment with each programs vision
and strategies. The ED provides direction for program leads to
establish the strategic execution of publication and content
development activities in alignment with GMAF's purpose and
utilizing our core capabilities. The ED of SC&E ensures the
teams are focused on strategic alignment with the program SMARTs
and management of global communication and publication related
activities, including: -
- Establishes goals and objectives in alignment with those
established for GMAF and WWRD
- Align publication and congress activities and scientific
messaging with program goals and priorities -
- Supports teams with content development to support SMARTs
- Sets direction for teams; Assess and manages resource needs
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- Oversight for team budget and financial planning
- Guide teams on identification of risks, mitigation strategies
and resolution of issues
- Oversight for internal document review processes and
proceduresThis role may chair or represent GMAF on a selected
cross-functional working groups or governance committees and is a
member of the GMAF extended leadership team.Key
Responsibilities:Leadership: The ED leads a group of scientific
communications experts globally who are responsible for the
development of content for manuscripts, abstracts, posters,
presentations, scientific messaging, plain language summaries,
regulatory documents, slide decks and Medical Information
documents.The ED is accountable for the development of teams to
ensure they are continuing to expand their scientific acumen, have
a strong understanding of publication guidelines, and work in a
compliant and consistent manner according to established process
and procedures.The ED will mentor teams on influence, strategy, and
collaboration ensuring they are well equipped to lead publication
planning activities; can take a forward-looking approach in the
publication process; feel secure in the identification of risks and
recommend mitigations; work at multiple levels within BMRN with
confidence.Management of Resources:The ED has accountability for
SC&E's budget, forecasting and long-range financial planning
activities and resource planning and adherence to contracting, PO
set up and timely monthly accruals.The ED guides the facilitation
of various financial exercises (budget development, forecasting,
accruals, and variance investigation); collect and collate
financial data for SC&E and provide guidance to teams using
reports & analysis. -The ED provides insight to Finance on SC&E
monthly and quarterly performance vs budget and forecast analysis.
Lead discussions with SC&E managers on workforce planning to
ensure optimal resource utilization for LRP.Planning and
Execution:The ED has oversight of teams for the planning and
development of content that addresses identified gaps and documents
with the foci on scientific research, clinical study outcomes,
health economic and outcomes research, value and access issues and
stakeholder education. -The ED provides direction to teams as they
coordinate efforts and scientific content to be shared both in
person and virtually, and through poster/presentations at
scientific congresses. - Support for development of manuscripts,
abstracts, posters, presentations, scientific messaging, plain
language summaries, regulatory documents, slide decks and Medical
Information documents to ensure they meet the highest standards of
medical / scientific integrity, adhere to authorship, and document
development guidelines, and achieve completion per planned
timelines. The ED ensures teams facilitate the development,
internal review process, documentation, and storage of scientific
documents enterprise-wide through the maintenance of the associated
systems, committees, and resources needed for this. The ED sets the
direction on the conduct of literature analyses with ongoing review
of new literature and scientific development related to assigned
products and create or update scientific content accordingly and
provide alerts to notify colleagues of newly released documents of
importance and verify correct and consistent referencing of all
scientific content. The ED supports teams with oversight of the
company digital library and maintenance of copyright.Competencies:
- The ED is expected to exhibit mastery-level competence in GMAF
core competencies, including communication, leadership, strategy
planning and problem solving. For example: - -
- Articulates alignment between GMAF initiatives and corporate
strategy such that employees, at all levels, fully understand their
roles in achieving success -
- Actively models and encourages open, honest, and clear
communication across teams and functions -
- Holds teams accountable for goal achievement by creating a
shared sense of ownership for success - -
- Identifies internal and external best practices, trends,
developments, or alternative approaches that can be leveraged for
strategy development -
- Communicates and reinforces purpose and links between GMAF
activities and BioMarin corporate strategy and financial results
-
- Understands the scope of the problem and/or solution, as well
as the span of control for the individual / team and advises
appropriate course of action - -
- Recognizes cross-functional, company-wide, or vendor-based
impact of issues and opportunities and appropriately considers
input and implications in solution development
- Establishes a team focus on excellence in customer service and
commitment to high quality work and responsiveness - - -
- Actively manages project trade-offs among scope, timelines,
budget/resources, and quality and drives team toward accountability
in these areas -
- Skilled at identifying areas where additional process
development is needed and defining new processes using best
practices, tools, and methodologies -Career Development:BioMarin
offers comprehensive career development programming, including
guidance, targeted training opportunities, and mentorship programs.
A career development pathway for GMAF has been defined and is
available to employees of BioMarin. -People Management:The ED will
manage several senior level direct reports who have oversight for
various program specific teams within the SC&E COE. - This
position leads a large global team of full time and temporary
resources.Education and Experience:
- MS -in life or health sciences, PhD -preferred
- Strong knowledge -and experience in -good publication
practices, medical writing, -and maintenance of related
-analytics
- 10 -years of relevant experience in -pharma, -biotech, -or
publication agencies -with increasing levels of responsibility and
leadership -
- 10 -years line management experience
preferredContacts:Internal:All -Global -Medical Affairs -teams
include GMAF LT, Human Resources, Commercial / Market Access,
Clinical Operations, Market Planning, Regulatory Affairs,
Regulatory Patient Engagement, Legal / Compliance, Corporate
Communications, Pharmacovigilance, -Data SciencesExternal:Vendors,
-suppliers, KOLs
Keywords: BIOMARIN, San Rafael , Executive Director, Head of Scientific Communication & Exchange Center of Excellence, Executive , San Rafael, California
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