[Hiring] Senior Director, Medical & Scientific Solutions @Petauri Health

Role Description

The Senior Director, Medical & Scientific Solutions provides senior-level scientific, strategic, client, and operational leadership across multiple accounts, therapeutic areas, and cross-functional teams. This role ensures high-quality scientific strategy and content delivery, strengthens client partnerships, develops scientific talent, supports business growth, and contributes to department priorities that advance the performance and long-term success of Petauri Advance.

Strategic Leadership & Client Partnership

• Serve as senior scientific lead across multiple accounts, providing strategic guidance and scientific expertise to clients and internal teams.
• Build trusted client relationships through proactive consultation, scientific counsel, and thought leadership.
• Partner with Account Management and cross-functional leaders to advance account strategy, client retention, and growth objectives.
• Anticipate client needs, risks, and opportunities, and develop solutions that support client and business goals.
• Provide therapeutic-area and medical communications expertise during strategic planning, client engagements, and presentations.

Scientific Excellence & Content Leadership

• Set standards for scientific rigor, accuracy, quality, and integrity across client deliverables.
• Oversee scientific quality and strategic alignment, ensuring adherence to medical, legal, and regulatory requirements.
• Provide senior-level review and guidance across a broad range of medical communications materials.
• Guide teams in translating complex scientific information into clear, compelling, and strategically relevant communications.
• Develop scientific content and research when needed to support client strategy, delivery quality, or business priorities.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach, and develop scientific team members through feedback, performance management, and growth opportunities.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performing team culture.
• Allocate resources and staffing to optimize utilization, workload balance, and client delivery.
• Support recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, and training efforts to strengthen team capabilities.

Business Development & Growth

• Contribute scientific leadership to proposals, pitches, and strategic business development discussions.
• Identify opportunities to expand client engagements, deepen partnerships, and introduce relevant service offerings.
• Strengthen relationships with prospective clients, external experts, and industry partners.

Operational Excellence & Organizational Contribution

• Oversee account resourcing, project planning, and budget management to support delivery excellence.
• Drive process improvements that increase efficiency, quality, scalability, and team performance.
• Recommend staffing, training, operational, and departmental priorities to senior leadership.
• Represent Petauri Advance professionally with clients, stakeholders, vendors, and industry partners.
• Travel up to 20% of the time to support client engagements, business development opportunities, industry events, and team or organizational meetings.

Qualifications

• Advanced scientific or clinical degree required (e.g., PhD, MD, PharmD, MBBS, RN, RPh) or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in medical communications, pharmaceuticals, healthcare communications, or a related scientific field.
• Minimum 4 years of experience leading medical communications accounts or programs across multiple therapeutic areas.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing, mentoring, or developing scientific team members.
• Demonstrated success leading client-facing scientific programs, managing strategic accounts, and delivering high-quality medical communications.
• Experience supporting business development, proposal development, pitches, or client growth initiatives.
• Deep expertise in medical communications strategy, scientific content development, and therapeutic-area leadership.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical development, treatment landscapes, and healthcare industry trends.
• Strong knowledge of medical, legal, and regulatory review requirements, scientific publication standards, and AMA Manual of Style.
• Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and client-facing communication skills.
• Strong leadership, delegation, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to analyze complex scientific and business information, solve problems, and provide actionable recommendations.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and perform effectively in a dynamic, deadline-driven environment.
• Familiarity with Veeva Vault or related review platforms preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.