Director, Scientific Services – Canada

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About the role

  • Director leading scientific strategy and medical communications for Prime’s global healthcare clients. Driving compliant delivery, team performance, client partnerships, forecasting, and business growth.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a strategic advisor to clients, shaping communication strategies, challenging thinking, and strengthening long-term partnerships
  • Play a key role in business growth and innovation by shaping proposals and pitches, identifying new opportunities, and integrating AI and omnichannel solutions into client strategies
  • Demonstrate in-depth understanding of client strategy and lead planning discussions that add measurable value
  • Promote compliance standards and perform audits to ensure Prime and client SOPs and industry regulations are met
  • Collaborate with client services leads to optimize resources, workflows, and processes
  • Provide scientific oversight of project progress and risks, supporting account leads with challenge identification and escalation
  • Provide senior review and guidance on scientific content, messaging, and data interpretation
  • Contribute scientific input to creative concepts and designs, approving final materials for production or submission
  • Partner with the Client Services Director to support financial planning and forecasting
  • Support sustained business growth in partnership with the Client Services Director, VP, and Business Development colleagues
  • Champion team engagement, motivation, and positive culture
  • Model effective people management through regular 1:1s, mentoring, development, goal setting, and performance reviews

Requirements

  • Minimum 10 years’ healthcare agency experience in senior roles
  • A life sciences degree, ideally combined with a higher degree (science Masters, PhD, or MD)
  • Proven track record in leading and developing scientific/editorial teams within a medical communications agency
  • Extensive medical writing and scientific leadership experience across a broad range of projects and therapeutic areas
  • Demonstrated commercial and financial awareness, including experience contributing to forecasting, resource planning, and business performance
  • Strong leadership and motivational skills
  • Experience building and maintaining senior client relationships, including leading strategic discussions and identifying growth opportunities
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting to clients
  • Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver to tight deadlines
  • Awareness of innovation in medical communications, including AI and omnichannel approaches

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteCanada

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