The Senior Manager works in a highly matrixed environment, collaborating closely with Medical Affairs leadership and cross-functional partners to uphold high standards of medical professionalism, integrity, and a patient-centered mindset.
Responsibilities
- Support Medical Affairs leads in developing and executing medical strategies and tactics for established brands and women's health products, ensuring alignment with portfolio and organizational priorities.
- Assist with product maintenance and defense activities, including medical assessments related to product exits, label changes, supply issues, quality topics, reformulation efforts, and other lifecycle management needs.
- Contribute to medical evaluations of medically necessary or medically significant products by gathering scientific background information, summarizing data, and supporting internal decision-making processes.
- Assist in assessing patient, physician, payer, and reputational considerations across assigned portfolio activities to inform balanced and evidence-based recommendations.
- Partner with Medical Affairs leads and cross-functional colleagues, including global and country medical teams, to support timely responses to product inquiries and emerging issues.
- Support coordination of materials and inputs related to supply interruptions, out-of-stock situations, regulatory inquiries, labeling updates, safety signals, and other time-sensitive portfolio topics.
- Prepare background documents, scientific summaries, meeting materials, and decision-support content for internal governance discussions and cross-functional reviews.
- Participate in the development and review of medical, promotional, educational, training, congress, and internal communication materials as a scientific and therapeutic area resource.
- Support creation and maintenance of global medical-to-medical content for use by country medical colleagues, ensuring consistency and scientific rigor.
- Conduct scientific literature searches, competitive intelligence reviews, data summaries, and therapeutic area background assessments to support medical strategy and execution.
- Ensure that scientific information is communicated clearly, accurately, and in a medically appropriate context in all internal and external materials.
- Support the development, review, and maintenance of scientific communication materials for internal and external stakeholders, including slide decks, FAQs, and medical information resources.
- Assist with publication-related activities such as literature reviews, manuscript support, congress abstracts and posters, and other scientific content development.
- Provide scientific and operational support for advisory boards, expert consultations, professional society engagements, and patient advocacy initiatives.
- Support medical insight-gathering activities and synthesize findings into actionable recommendations for Medical Affairs and cross-functional partners.
- Provide operational excellence and project management support for Medical Affairs-led initiatives, including tracking deliverables, timelines, stakeholder inputs, and follow-up actions.
- Support Medical Affairs meetings, working groups, and governance processes through agenda development, content preparation, documentation, and action tracking.
- Collaborate effectively across global, regional, and country teams to support alignment and execution of portfolio priorities in a matrixed environment.
- Operate with flexibility, accountability, and sound judgment in a fast-paced environment with multiple competing priorities, ensuring high-quality and timely execution of responsibilities.
Essential Skills
- PharmD, PhD, MD/DO, or other advanced healthcare or scientific degree, with 5-10+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
- 5-10+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, Medical Information, Clinical Development, or Medical Strategy within the pharmaceutical sector.
- Proven Medical Affairs expertise, including experience supporting medical strategy, scientific communications, medical review processes, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience in promotional document and material review, ensuring scientific accuracy and compliance with regulatory and medical standards.
- Strong ability to interpret scientific and clinical data, including analyzing literature, summarizing clinical data, assessing safety information, and developing evidence-based recommendations.
- Experience supporting established pharmaceutical brands, including label changes, product maintenance, supply issues, reformulations, product defense, and lifecycle planning.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively with Regulatory Affairs, Safety/Pharmacovigilance, Legal, Commercial, Medical Information, Supply Chain, and global/local Medical teams.
- Strong scientific communication skills, including experience developing and reviewing publications, congress materials, training content, scientific slide decks, and medical communications.
- Experience supporting external scientific engagement activities such as advisory boards, key opinion leader engagements, congress activities, and medical insight gathering.
- Demonstrated project management capabilities, including managing multiple stakeholders, timelines, governance processes, deliverables, and competing priorities in a matrixed environment.
- Strong communication skills, executive presence, and sound business judgment, with the ability to support decisions involving patient, physician, payer, regulatory, and reputational considerations.
- Strong scientific writing skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise, and accurate medical and scientific content.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of New York, NY.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $175.00 - $220.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Aug 13, 2026.
About Actalent
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