Alkermes is hiring : Associate Director, Scientific Communication in Waltham

As a product and disease state expert within Medical Affairs, the Associate Director, Scientific Communications will provide medical, scientific and technical expertise to scientific communications deliverables for marketed and pipeline products. They will help develop, manage and track scientific communication plans as well as create and review deliverables for medical and scientific accuracy. The Associate Director will ensure compliance with Alkermes policies, procedures, and best-practices and support the development of key product materials for marketed and pipeline products.

This position is eligible for the hybrid workplace model, requiring work to be completed onsite at our Waltham, MA office at least 3 days per week. This role is not eligible for fully remote work.

Major Accountabilities :

• Act as the Medical Communications lead for product-specific working groups or projects and support Publications, as needed
• Support other Scientific Communications Leads as needed in work across products
• Create, manage and track strategic scientific communication plans in partnership with a cross-functional team
• Create / review medical and scientific materials for both accuracy and strategic alignment for internal and external customers. Main deliverables include scientific communication platforms, MSL slide decks targeted for HCP and payor audiences, Medical Affairs booth materials, Medicaid Testimonies, and others as needed
• Develop in-depth therapeutic knowledge of disease, epidemiology, product and competitor product information; act as a resource to others external to Medical Affairs
• Partner with Medical Directors to develop and implement product specific strategy and alignment, and ensure accurate representation in scientific communication materials
• Work effectively with a cross-functional team of stakeholders including Compliance, Research and Development (Clinical Development, Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Nonclinical, etc), Marketing, and individuals external to Alkermes
• Ensure compliance with department and company policies and procedures
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Scientific Communications review processes and the content management and review tool (Veeva Vault), provide guidance from concept / project initiation through publication
• Manage vendor and budget
• Support additional projects or initiatives within the Scientific Communications function

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About Us

Why join Team Alkermes?

Alkermes applies its deep neuroscience expertise to develop medicines designed to help people living with complex and difficult-to-treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A fully-integrated, global biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Ireland with U.S. locations in Massachusetts and Ohio, we are committed to pursuing great science, driven by deep compassion to make a real impact in the lives of patients. Alkermes has a portfolio of proprietary commercial products for the treatment of alcohol dependence, opioid dependence, schizophrenia and bipolar I disorder, and a pipeline of clinical and preclinical candidates in development for various neurological disorders, including narcolepsy.

Beyond our important mission of developing medicines to address unmet patient needs, we actively seek to foster a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging throughout our business. We strive to ensure that all voices are respected and valued, recognizing that our diversity of thought, background and perspective makes us stronger. We are proud to have been recognized as an employer of choice by many national organizations, including being certified as a Great Place to Work in the U.S. in 2024, honored as a Healthiest Employer in both Ohio and Massachusetts in 2023, a Best Place for Working Parents in 2023, and to have received the Bell Seal at the Platinum level for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America for three consecutive years (2021-2023).

Alkermes, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any qualified applicant or employee because of race, creed, color, age, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, military status, application for military service or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal law.  Alkermes also complies with all work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act and IRCA.  Alkermes is an E-Verify employer.