Scientific Associate

Summary

Join Precision Value and Health as a Scientific Associate and contribute to the development of high-quality medical content. You will collaborate with internal teams to ensure client satisfaction and medical accuracy. Responsibilities include creating various resources such as clinical monographs and presentations. You will conduct literature reviews, communicate with stakeholders, and participate in review meetings. The role requires an advanced life sciences degree and 1-2 years of relevant experience. Success requires strong communication, analytical, and prioritization skills.

Requirements

• Advanced degree in life sciences, preferably PharmD or PhD
• 1 – 2 years of experience in the medical communication, pharmaceutical and/or healthcare industry
• Knowledge of American Medical Association (AMA) style
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Adobe Acrobat
• Familiarity with scientific search engines including PubMed and Google Scholar
• Strong written and verbal communication
• High analytical ability
• Ability to prioritize deadline-sensitive projects and juggle competing client priorities
• Team- and detail-oriented

Responsibilities

• Develop high quality, medically accurate content in print or digital format for a wide range of medical communication resources
• Deliver requested projects per established timelines
• Conduct literature reviews and develop annotations to support promotional claims in a variety of promotional medical education and marketing resources
• Ensure professional, proactive, and collaborative communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure a constant high quality of work in line with science, good publication practice, and company rules and policies
• Work closely with account teams to refine content in keeping with strategic imperatives
• Communicate medical content with internal team and pharmaceutical clients, as necessary
• Attend medical, legal, regulatory review meetings and participate, as necessary
• Participate in all internal team meetings, including project kick-off meetings, weekly status meetings, client meetings, and internal brainstorm/review meetings
• Contribute ideas for tactical planning within assigned accounts
• Travel for occasional client meetings
• Promote and adhere to Precision Value and Health’s workplace values known as PRECISION Principles (Client Service, Purpose, Accountability, Mutual Respect and Collaboration)

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in gathering, evaluating, and summarizing healthcare business and scientific literature and insights data for a variety of managed care audiences
• Working knowledge of managed markets, healthcare, and the healthcare delivery system; health reform legislation; and/or managed care experience (HMO, MCO, PBM, etc.)
• Managed care experience

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement savings benefits
• Life insurance and disability benefits
• Parental leave
• Paid time off for sick leave and vacation
• Discretionary annual bonus