Associate Scientific Director

Applied Intuition Inc.; Macclesfield; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global leader in medical communications is seeking an Associate Scientific Director to co-lead a publications team focused on neuromuscular disease. This role involves partnering with clients, overseeing junior medical writers, and contributing to strategy-driven publications. The ideal candidate will have extensive medical writing experience, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to quality and innovation. Join a team that values diversity and encourages applications from candidates who may not meet every qualification.

Qualifications

• A number of years’ experience in a medical writing role within a communications agency.
• Experience across various deliverables for medical audiences.
• Experience reviewing and overseeing writers, including line management.
• Desire to lead a global team.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Ensure accurate and high-quality scientific content.
• Partner with scientific leads to streamline processes and manage resources.
• Mentor and review work of junior writers.
• Develop strong client and author relationships.
• Lead client calls and scientific meetings.

Skills

Medical writing experience

Leadership skills

Excellent communication

Attention to detail

Job description

London/Manchester/Macclesfield – Hybrid or remote working available

About Nucleus Global

Nucleus Global is a global leader in the medical communications space, with more than 900 people across Europe, the US and APAC. We pride ourselves in setting the standard for industry best practices, with our unparalleled dedication to impactful and innovative communication. Our continued authenticity, credibility, and reliability have cemented our reputation as true partners to our clients.

We form part of the iNIZIO Medical group. Our unique position as part of this international network, which includes three of the world’s top medical communications companies, gives us an important advantage over commercial competitors. Within the wider iNIZIO network we have access to a full suite of advisory, medical, marketing, communications, patient and partner engagement services.

About the role

We’re looking for a Associate Scientific Director to co‑lead a global, exciting and fast‑paced publications team in neuromuscular disease. You will partner with senior global clients on high‑impact publications and publications strategy, plus some medical affairs. Overseeing junior writers is an important part of the role – we have a passion for developing people and we hope you do too! Neuromuscular experience is an advantage, but motivation for the role is more important. This is a great opportunity to take the next step into senior account leadership, build deep relationships with clients, and lead a large, supportive, fun team.

Here's what you'll do

As a Associate Scientific Director, you will be responsible for accurate and high‑quality scientific content across your workstream. You will be a senior scientific leader of a well‑established team and will partner with the scientific and CS leads to streamline processes, manage resourcing, mentor and review work, enable high quality delivery and grow the business. You will develop your own content across diverse publications deliverables, and oversee, support and motivate a global team of medical writers to do the same. You will develop strong client and author relationships that enable you to make great, strategy‑driven suggestions. You will lead client and author calls and scientific meetings. You will have a growth mindset and work with the agency leadership on account growth and innovating our client offerings. The role offers opportunities to be a partner and trusted advisor to the client, with some travel for client meetings and events.

The Associate Scientific Director will report to the Senior Scientific Director or VP, Scientific Services and will line manage junior members of the medical writing team.

About you

To succeed you will have:

• A number of years’ experience working in a medical writing role, including publications, within a medical communications agency environment.
• Experience writing across a broad range of deliverables and formats for a variety of medical audiences.
• Experience reviewing and overseeing other writers, ideally including line management.
• Growing leadership skills and a desire to lead a global team.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with colleagues, clients and external experts.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced environment, work to deadlines and juggle multiple projects.
• Excellent attention to detail and pride in quality control.

Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.