Director, Scientific Communications at Biocryst Pharmaceuticals in North Carolina Remote

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COMPANY: At BioCryst, we share a deep commitment to improving the lives of people living with hereditary angioedema (HAE) and other rare diseases. We leverage our expertise in structure-guided drug design to develop first-in-class or best-in-class oral small-molecule and injectable protein therapeutics. Our global headquarters is in Durham, North Carolina, we have a regional office in Boston, Massachusetts, and our employees span the globe across sites in multiple countries. We are proud of our culture of engagement and accountability that rewards people for innovative thinking and achievement of key objectives. For more information, please visit our website at www.biocryst.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram . JOB SUMMARY: The Director, Scientific Communications serves as a senior leader responsible for developing and executing scientific engagement priorities across assigned therapeutic areas, assets, and lifecycle stages, including launch execution in highly competitive environments. This role requires deep Medical Affairs experience and the ability to translate clinical evidence, disease-state expertise, external insights, and business priorities into strategic scientific direction. Working across Medical Affairs and in close partnership with Medical Education & Communication and other cross-functional partners, this leader will drive external expert engagement, advisory board planning, stakeholder strategies, insight-generation activities, and scientific input to launch and lifecycle planning. The role ensures alignment between external scientific engagement, Medical Affairs objectives, communication planning, and organizational priorities while supporting compliant scientific exchange. ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: • Lead scientific engagement priorities for assigned assets, indications, or therapeutic areas across disease-state strategy, launch planning, lifecycle management, and evidence dissemination. • Interpret clinical, translational, real-world, and competitive evidence into strategic scientific direction that informs Medical Affairs planning and priorities along with external engagement. • Lead external expert engagement, advisory board planning, KOL and stakeholder strategies, and insight-generation activities to inform scientific and medical priorities. • Lead Medical Education and Communications direct reports and related activities to ensure scientific engagement insights, external expert perspectives, and Medical Affairs priorities are reflected in communication planning and related deliverables. • Provide strategic scientific input to congress planning, medical education, field medical resources, and external communication planning in collaboration with Medical Education and Communications and cross-functional partners. • Partner cross-functionally with Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Publications, Regulatory, Commercial, Market Access, Field Medical, and Patient Advocacy to ensure scientific alignment and coordinated execution. • Advance launch readiness and lifecycle excellence in highly competitive environments by aligning external insights, stakeholder engagement priorities, scientific direction, field medical enablement, congress strategy, and Medical Affairs planning. • Monitor the scientific, clinical, regulatory, and competitive landscape to identify implications for scientific engagement, education, stakeholder planning, and lifecycle priorities. • Ensure scientific engagement activities and related inputs are accurate, balanced, evidence-based, strategically aligned, and compliant with applicable policies and review processes. • Oversee agency and vendor partners supporting scientific engagement activities, including scope development, budget stewardship, timeline management, quality oversight, and performance feedback. • Ensure finance & governance discipline to scientific engagement and medical education and communication activities, including budget forecasting, resource pr