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Daily responsibilities in Scientific Communications typically include creating and editing scientific content such as research summaries, press releases, presentations, and reports tailored to both specialist and general audiences. Professionals in this role often collaborate closely with researchers, subject matter experts, and marketing teams to ensure clarity and accuracy of information. You may also manage social media or website content, oversee publication processes, and attend scientific events to gather and disseminate new findings. Depending on your organization, the pace can be fast-moving and deadline-driven, requiring strong organization and communication skills.

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A Scientific Communications job involves translating complex scientific information into clear, engaging content for various audiences, including researchers, healthcare professionals, and the general public. Professionals in this field create materials such as research summaries, press releases, regulatory documents, and marketing content for scientific or medical products. They often work in industries like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, academia, or publishing. Strong writing, editing, and data interpretation skills are essential for success in this role.

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To thrive in Scientific Communications, you need a solid background in science or a related field, exceptional writing and editing skills, and experience conveying complex information to diverse audiences. Familiarity with tools such as reference managers, data visualization software, and publishing platforms, along with relevant certifications like the Medical Writer Certified (MWC), are often beneficial. Outstanding soft skills include attention to detail, creativity, collaboration, and the ability to translate technical concepts clearly. These skills are vital for effectively bridging the gap between scientific experts and non-specialist audiences, ensuring information is accessible, accurate, and impactful.

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Jobs in scientific communications include roles such as scientific writer, medical writer, science communicator, public information officer, and science editor. These positions typically require strong writing skills, knowledge of scientific concepts, and often familiarity with tools like Adobe Creative Suite or content management systems. They are found in academia, industry, government agencies, and non-profit organizations.
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Infographic showing various Scientific Communications job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% Internship, 87% Full Time, 9% Part Time, 1% Temporary, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 90% Physical, 3% Hybrid, and 7% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $65,473 per year, or $31.5 per hour.

Sr. Director, Global Scientific Communications Excellence - BioPharmaceuticals Medical (BPM)

AstraZeneca

Gaithersburg, MD • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement, PTO

Posted 23 days ago

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8.4

Company rating: 8.4 out of 10

Based on 45 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

22nd of 86 rated pharmaceutical

Job description

Sr. Director, Global Scientific Communications Excellence -
BioPharmaceuticals Medical (BPM)
The Sr. Director, Global Scientific Communications Excellence - BioPharmaceuticals Medical (BPM) will drive the strategy, operating model, governance, and capability build required to modernize how medical content is planned, developed, reused, approved, and delivered across global and local medical teams. The role sets the standard for medical content reuse within BBU Medical - building repeatable, modular approaches that global and local teams can adopt and scale. It builds the foundation for scale by integrating medical content excellence, modular authoring, strong governance, omnichannel enablement, and AI-supported workflows - in close partnership with global and local medical teams, Global Business Services (GBS), Enterprise AI, IT, and Compliance.
Key Accountabilities
Strategic Leadership and Scientific Communications Excellence
  • Define and lead the BPM scientific communications excellence strategy across therapeutic areas, portfolios, and priority markets, aligned with broader BPM medical strategy.
  • Establish a clear vision for how strategic medical content is developed, governed, and activated to improve scientific engagement, field effectiveness, and content reuse across global and local medical teams.
  • Lead frameworks for scientific narrative creation, integrated scientific communications planning, and core medical content design that ensure consistency, quality, and strategic pull-through.

Content Operating Model, Governance, and Process Excellence
  • Design and implement the end-to-end medical content operating model - planning, authoring, review, approval, publication/distribution, localization, maintenance, and retirement.
  • Establish governance frameworks, decision rights, RACIs, service expectations, and quality standards across all stakeholders involved in medical content development and deployment.
  • Standardize content development through templates, playbooks, modular content standards, taxonomy, and reuse principles to improve quality, consistency, and speed to market.

Global Business Services (GBS) Partnership and Delivery Model
  • Co-develop the GBS delivery model for scientific communications as a shared responsibility with TA-aligned Scientific Communications Sr. Directors, defining a consistent, enterprise-aligned approach to sourcing, service design, and ways of working.
  • Build scalable onshore-offshore authoring and operations models that make effective use of GBS scientific and non-scientific writing talent based in offshore locations.
  • Define service levels, quality expectations, intake and demand management, and escalation paths for GBS-delivered content, ensuring standards are applied consistently across therapeutic areas.
  • Partner with GBS to build capability, training, and career pathways for offshore writing teams, embedding modular authoring and AI-enabled ways of working.

Digital, Data, and AI Enablement
  • Lead the requirements for scientific communications platforms and capabilities - modular/component authoring, digital asset management, workflow orchestration, analytics, content reuse, and connected ecosystem integrations.
  • Translate medical business needs into clear requirements for digital, AI, and technology teams.
  • Champion responsible adoption of AI-enabled capabilities across content planning, drafting, tagging, review support, localization, reuse, and performance insight generation - with human oversight, scientific accuracy, and fair balance safeguarded in line with governance and compliance requirements.

Performance, Value Realization, and Continuous Improvement
  • Define KPIs that measure medical content quality, effectiveness, speed, reuse, operational efficiency, adoption, and business value.
  • Use insights and analytics to continuously improve content strategy, workflow design, channel relevance, and user experience for internal and external medical stakeholders.
  • Demonstrate the value of transformation through measurable outcomes - cycle time reduction, increased reuse, improved quality and user satisfaction, better field enablement, and stronger return on content investment.
  • Drive a culture of continuous improvement, simplification, and disciplined execution across the scientific communications ecosystem.

Leadership, Influence, and Change Management
  • Build organizational capability in scientific narrative development, content strategy, modular content design, digital fluency, and AI-enabled ways of working.
  • Influence cross-functional stakeholders on new ways of working to drive adoption.
  • Serve as an enterprise thought partner, bringing external best practices and innovation into the organization to continuously elevate scientific communications and medical content transformation.

Requirements
  • Experience in scientific communications: 10+ years in medical/scientific communications, with demonstrated expertise in Medical Affairs content, scientific narrative development, and medical content development across therapeutic areas.
  • Education: Advanced scientific degree (PharmD, PhD, MD, or MS) required or strongly preferred.
  • Strategic transformation and operating model leadership: Experience leading strategic transformation, content operating model development, content operations, governance design, and modular authoring standards across complex global organizations and markets.
  • Matrix leadership and stakeholder influence: Proven ability to lead through influence rather than authority in a matrix environment, driving cross-functional alignment, stakeholder engagement, organizational change, and effective decision-making across diverse teams.
  • Global delivery and GBS/shared-services model: Experience designing and operating onshore-offshore delivery models - including shared services, hub, or GBS partnerships and external agency/vendor networks - to scale content development across global and local teams.
  • Digital, data, and AI capability leadership: Experience translating business needs into requirements for digital, data, AI/GenAI/NLP, and content technology teams, with demonstrated success steering specialized data scientists and engineers and delivering enterprise digital solutions at scale in life sciences or medical contexts.
  • Content technology expertise: Experience with modular content, component authoring, headless content models, and/or digital asset management platforms, with familiarity applying these capabilities in regulated content environments.
  • Regulatory and governance knowledge: Strong understanding of regulatory, compliance, and medical governance requirements relevant to scientific and medical content.
  • Business and change leadership: Track record of leading cross-functional teams, managing budgets and resources, and translating digital or technical concepts into clear business language for non-technical stakeholders.
  • Medical engagement and delivery experience: Experience supporting omnichannel medical engagement and content reuse across global and local teams.
  • Preferred: Prior communications agency experience.

The annual base pay for this position ranges from $ 197,390.40 - 296,085.60 USD. Base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition, our positions offer a short-term incentive bonus opportunity; eligibility to participate in our equity-based long-term incentive program. Benefits offered include a qualified retirement program [401(k) plan]; paid vacation and holidays; paid leaves; and, health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans. Additional details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base pay (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Why AstraZeneca?
When we put diverse cross-functional teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.
AstraZeneca offers an environment where you can be at the forefront of healthcare innovation. With opportunities to shape medical practices and contribute to groundbreaking changes in asthma treatment strategies, you'll find yourself immersed in a fast-paced, collaborative atmosphere. Our commitment to improving patients' lives drives us to leverage science and technology efficiently. Here, you'll be part of a thriving team that encourages development without borders.
Ready to make a meaningful impact? Apply now and join us on this exciting journey!
Date Posted
17-Jul-2026
Closing Date
30-Jul-2026
Our mission is to build an inclusive environment where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees. In furtherance of that mission, we welcome and consider applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of their protected characteristics. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please complete the corresponding section in the application form.

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