The Executive Director, Scientific Communications, provides portfolio-level strategic leadership and governance for Travere's scientific communications function, ensuring publications, medical education, congress planning, and scientific content are aligned to advancing Global Medical Affair's (GMA) medical objectives. This individual will be a member of the GMA Leadership Team and will serve as the senior point of contact for the function with cross-functional leadership, sets the multi-year scientific communications plan and builds scalable infrastructure to support current and future pipeline assets.
Requirements
- Portfolio-level scientific communications strategy
- Lead the strategy and integration of scientific communications across publications, medical education, and congress planning, ensuring a unified, portfolio-level dissemination approach aligned to lifecycle and regulatory priorities
- Establish and maintain a multi-year scientific communications plan aligned to pipeline milestones, label expansions, and evidence generation plans
- Ensure consistent scientific positioning and narrative alignment across indications, setting the enterprise narrative framework within which GMA operates
- Define the function's approach to digital dissemination, modular content, and responsible adoption of AI-assisted workflows
- Synthesize competitive intelligence across the portfolio to inform narrative evolution and dissemination priorities
- Own the Scientific Communications function budget, including annual planning, financial forecasting, and expenditure tracking across publications, content, med ed, congress planning, and agency partners
- Scientific content development and dissemination
- Direct the strategic sequencing and prioritization of publication plans across indications against portfolio-level objectives and regulatory milestones
- Set the strategic framework within which congress strategy and medical education operate, ensuring alignment with the scientific narrative and portfolio priorities
- Integrate the medical education program (grants strategy, areas of interest, CME/IME compliance) into the broader scientific communications strategy
- Drive innovation in scientific communications dissemination, working closely with GMA's Digital Engagement and Innovation function
- Own the enterprise content strategy and framework, defining how scientific content is created, reviewed, versioned, and repurposed across deliverables ensuring version control and reduced duplication
- Cross-functional integration
- Partner closely with Therapeutic Areas, Market Access, Regulatory, Biometrics, and Commercial partners to translate upstream evidence generation and clinical development plans into dissemination strategies
- Align publication and dissemination timing with regulatory submissions, label expansions, and pipeline transitions
- Ensure scientific communications consistency across alliance partners (e.g., Vifor, Chugai), including joint publication governance
- Team leadership and portfolio readiness
- Lead, develop, and hold accountable a Scientific Communications team ensuring clear expectations, actionable feedback, and performance management
- Maintain documented succession plans and individual development plans connecting team member growth to business needs
- Enable cross-functional capability development across publications, medical education, and congress planning through structured flexibility and development pathways
- Oversee resource allocation across assets and functional streams, managing a multi-program team where individuals span indications and deliverable types
- Build the systems, agency partner relationships, and governance frameworks needed before new assets enter the dissemination phase
- External scientific leadership
- Engage key opinion leaders and academic collaborators in publication steering, dissemination advisory, and congress session development, distinct from field medical engagement
- Represent Travere in publication and scientific communications forums, contributing to scientific discourse with credibility and authority
Benefits
- premium health
- financial
- work-life and well-being offerings
- wellness and employee support programs
- life insurance
- disability
- retirement plans with employer match
- generous paid time off
