Lead, Scientific Publications Enablement Lead

Do you want to be part of an inclusive team that works to develop innovative therapies for patients? Every day, we are driven to develop and deliver innovative and effective new medicines to patients and physicians.  If you want to be part of this exciting work, you belong at Astellas!

 

Astellas Pharma Inc. is a pharmaceutical company conducting business in more than 70 countries around the world. We are committed to turning innovative science into medical solutions that bring value and hope to patients and their families. Keeping our focus on addressing unmet medical needs and conducting our business with ethics and integrity enables us to improve the health of people throughout the world. For more information on Astellas, please visit our website at www.astellas.com.

 

Purpose:

As the Lead, Scientific Publications Enablement, you will be integral in defining, maintaining, and improving scientific publication business processes, platforms, and metrics.  You must be an expert both within the scientific publications function as well as across various technology platforms to ensure that the tools available to the scientific publications team and external vendors are fit for purpose.  Your primary focus will be to drive continuous improvement that enables the scientific publications team to facilitate data disclosure with urgency while also delivering a best-in-class user experience to support external authors and collaborators, and the internal team’s unique needs.  You must understand industry best practices as well as emerging technology while applying local regulatory requirements to create a scalable and sustainable global framework that delivers quality and value to both internal and external stakeholders.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

 

Platform & Governance Development

Possess and maintain subject matter expertise across scientific publications functional area, technology platforms, and underlying data structure leveraged by MA personnel in order to effectively distill various business needs into sustainable and scalable global solutions as the business process owner (BPO) for scientific publication activities Identify, define and prioritize user requirements for and continuously improve upon suite of global scientific publications processes and corresponding technology platforms and integrations required to drive data-driven, targeted scientific exchange based on customer preferences (e.g. SOPs, Global Publications Management System, Visualization/Dashboards, etc.)

 

Leadership

Manage external publication vendor(s) to ensure consistent, compliant worldwide execution of scientific publications, including establishment and maintenance of high-quality standards and quality monitoring plans Co-lead cross-functional value team to develop enterprise solutions beyond Medical Affairs as applicable and support an innovative approach to demonstrating impact of publication activity as well as facilitating integration with other relevant systems/tools

 

Change Management

Contribute to and/or lead development of enduring materials and programs (e.g. live sessions, learning management system (LMS) modules, work aids, etc.) in collaboration with Training teams to optimize end user onboarding and adoption of new and existing scientific publications processes and platforms

 

Cross-functional Collaboration

Partner with relevant Medical Affairs and other cross-functional stakeholders (e.g. DigitalX, Commercial Capabilities, Legal, Ethics & Compliance, Data Privacy, Regulatory Affairs, Quality Assurance, etc.) to align on deliverables impacting their respective areas Reports directly to Head of Med Comms & Engagement Enablement but works closely with the Head of Scientific Publications & the Scientific Publication team