Scientific Director
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We’re looking for a Scientific Director to lead global, exciting and fast-paced publications teams in thrombolytics and respiratory. 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! Lytics/respiratory 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 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 Scientific Director will report to the 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 leadership 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.
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Nucleus Global
View Company ProfileNucleus Global (operating under nucleusglobal.com, legally Nucleus Global Limited) is the premier, enterprise-grade global medical communications network, scientific affairs platform, and multi-channel healthcare stakeholder engagement engine engineered to act as the definitive communication layer, evidence-generation interface, and scientific publication infrastructure for world-leading pharmaceutical companies, fast-growing biotechnology firms, and global medical device manufacturers. Founded in 1986 in a modest London basement by visionary Stephen Cameron, the corporation completely eliminates the systemic operational friction of scientific data dissemination—characterized by complex international compliance guidelines, fragmented peer-to-peer educational outreach, and highly dense clinical research text—by translating intricate life sciences discoveries into clear, accessible, and high-impact medical stories. Moving far beyond traditional advertising agency setups or general public relations operations, Nucleus Global natively integrates rigorous medical writing, high-science event management, strategic publications planning, key opinion leader (KOL) engagement mapping, and digital omnichannel health strategy into a single high-availability global services framework. Under its overarching structural network, the company operates a specialized family of dedicated internal agencies—including Medical Action Communications, Articulate Science, ClinicalConnections, SciMentum, and Health Interactions—each tailoring distinct promotional or non-promotional medical affairs strategies to specialized therapeutic categories such as oncology, rare diseases, and virology. Originally acquired by private equity-backed network Huntsworth in 2020, Nucleus Global now operates as a core cornerstone of Inizio Medical, the global powerhouse division formed through the high-profile merger of Ashfield and Huntsworth under Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R). With an elite operational workforce exceeding 750 deep scientific, medical, and digital communication professionals across international regions, the corporation runs highly localized and high-scale operational hubs spanning the United Kingdom, the United States, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. What sets Nucleus Global apart is its absolute commitment to combining a science-first ethos with sophisticated digital execution frameworks; by seamlessly bridging the gap between rigorous regulatory requirements and creative, multi-modal clinical storytelling, the corporation remains a definitive global benchmark for enterprise medical communications and healthcare lifecycle transformation.
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