Portfolio Director and Team Lead - Scientific

Are you an experienced and successful Scientific Leader with a Medical Communications Agency background, looking to grow your career in a dynamic and collaborative environment?

Work shouldn't just be something we do; it should have purpose. At Envision Pharma Group (EPG), we believe in creating life-changing outcomes for people through the work we do with our clients, giving back to the community, and staying deeply committed to our own families. Our people and their families are at the heart of everything we do. We know that our success depends on employees who feel valued, appreciated, and supported, both professionally and personally. That's why we prioritize a culture where family always comes first.

Being part of a collaborative team means there's no limit to what you can achieve. With us, you can be a part of a growing company you want to work for.

The opportunity

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Portfolio Director and Team Lead, Scientific, to join our highly regarded Envision Medical Communications (EMC) team.  In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in leading strategic, high-impact initiatives for our anchor clients.

As a Portfolio Director, you will be responsible for driving scientific strategy and excellence across a portfolio of accounts, ensuring alignment with client objectives and growing our business. Leading cross functional teams, you will direct and oversee high-quality scientific initiatives that deliver on strategic medical objectives, leading to improved patient outcomes. 

Leading and mentoring a team of medical writers, you will nurture and encourage growth and expertise, while identifying and expanding business opportunities within existing accounts. As a member of our senior team, you will also support agency-wide initiatives that ensure our continued success as a business.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead with impact, collaborate with a dynamic team, and shape the future of medical communications.

Role responsibilities

How will you make an impact at Envision Pharma Group?

Portfolio leadership, strategy and planning

• Provide overarching scientific, strategic, and tactical direction/leadership.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with external stakeholders, engaging in discussions of science and strategy with both clients and external experts.
• Drive and lead client relationships, developing action plans, leading partnership discussions and completing regular client health checks.
• Be responsible for the long-term success of your portfolio, driving initiatives to grow the business and add value to clients through innovation and efficient and effective delivery.

Delivery team oversight

• Provide up-to-date expert knowledge across the therapy area, client and competitor products, the market, the compliance/regulatory environment (general and client-specific), and international standards for disclosing medical/scientific content.
• Ensure that your team develops high-quality, scientifically accurate, strategically aligned, ethical, and compliant content that realizes client and thought-leader objectives and passes client medical/legal review.
• Oversee and direct the development of content for a range of project types and writing styles.
• Drive scientific strategy development, making recommendations on communication approaches for optimal support of our client's strategic objectives.
• Critically review the team's work and provide feedback to ensure scientific accuracy and strategic alignment.

People/line management

• Review business needs and identify appropriate opportunities and challenges for team members, ensuring optimal team development and retention.
• Proactively offer mentorship across the team, from less experienced line managers to other senior Scientific team members (e.g. Senior Medical Writers, Scientific Director, Content Specialist).
• Review business needs across the assigned portfolio and manage/negotiate team resource.

Business development:

• Drive and lead the development of scientific content for new business opportunities/proposals, for both organic growth within assigned accounts and wider new business opportunities, participating in pitch presentations.
• Build and develop an in-depth knowledge of EPG multichannel business offerings, keeping up to date with market developments, recognizing and proactively identifying new project/program opportunities through interactions with clients and external experts.

Do you have what we are looking for?

Skills & expertise

• An advanced degree (or equivalent relevant experience) in a life sciences or clinical discipline.
• 10 years of medical communications (or HEOR/market access, as appropriate) experience, preferably with experience gained across both publications and non-publications medcomms deliverables.
• Experience of working within a Medical Communications Agency.
• In-depth knowledge of oncology.
• Ability to interpret, evaluate, and communicate (in a variety of formats and styles) complex scientific and clinical data.
• Proven ability to lead a large medcomms (publications and/or non-publications) program, ideally within a global environment.
• Proven line management experience – medium-sized account team (5–10 people).

At EPG, the provided salary range reflects the potential base salary for this role in the United States, considering factors like your professional and academic experience, training, and role responsibilities. In addition to a competitive base salary, we offer an attractive total compensation package designed to reward and support our people.

Be Bold. Be Brilliant. Be an Envisionary!

We turn vision into reality. Our people are integral to our success and our values reflect the Envision philosophy where our teamwork helps us all grow and our enthusiasm inspires each other.

Explore your place at Envision. If you have the experience highlighted above, we would love to hear from you!