Associate Director, Congress Lead
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Job Description
Role Objectives:
• Lead the Bengaluru GCM Congress capability, delivering scalable operational support across prioritized Global congresses and defined regional and local congress activities
• Own GCM execution across KOL mapping, coverage planning, approved booth-content assembly and programming, daily-report production, overnight updates and coordination with the GCM Med Comms & Congress Content Factory Integration Lead
• Ensure the approved scientific narrative and messaging are accurately applied to congress content and approach
Key Responsibilities:
Activitiy & Team Leadership
• Manage GCM intake, prioritization, capacity and delivery across the congress portfolio
• Translate Global Congress CoE briefs into workplans, staffing requirements, timelines and activity checkpoints
• Lead and develop the GCM Sci Comms & Pubs Leads responsible for Congress Communications, Education and Operations Support and coordinate handoffs with Meetings & Events, Business Operations, the GCM Med Comms & Congress Content Factory Integration Lead and approved vendors within agreed accountability boundaries
Congress Operations
• Oversee AI-enabled KOL mapping, session coverage, attendance analysis and participant-assignment planning
• Oversee application of approved scientific narrative and messaging across coverage plans, booth-content packages, and on-site or remote readiness support
• Oversee overnight turnaround of daily-reports and implementation of approved panel and programming changes during congresses
Post-congress Material Support & Coordination
• Oversee preparation of congress-content requirements and source packages for the GCM Med Comms & Congress Content Factory Integration Lead and monitor production status, library maintenance and reuse-led regional or local support through the agreed workflow
• Ensure final outputs are appropriately reviewed, source-linked, version-controlled and aligned to approved scientific direction and local-use restrictions
• Monitor activity performance levels, quality, turnaround, reuse, capacity and stakeholder satisfaction and drive continuous improvement
Qualifications:
Experience: More than 10 years in the biopharmaceutical industry with at least 5 years of related experience; More than 5 years in scientific communications, Medical communications, congress operations or data dissemination; experience managing teams preferred or senior individual contributors
Technical skills:
• Understanding of Medical-congress operations, booth-assembly and dissemination
• Experience managing time-sensitive global delivery across teams
• Strong digital and AI fluency for stakeholder mapping and rapid synthesis
• Knowledge of modular content, content repositories, Medical-review workflows and version control
• Strong people leadership, capacity management, vendor coordination and stakeholder-management skills
Education: A Medical, scientific, pharmacy, life sciences, public health, Medical communications or related degree is required; an advanced degree is a plus
Languages: Fluent English required; additional languages advantageous
BENEFITS:
- It is our priority to provide competitive compensation and a benefit package that bridges your personal life with your professional career. Amongst our benefits are:
- Competitive Salary + Performance Annual Bonus
- Flexible work environment, including hybrid working
- Comprehensive Healthcare Insurance Plans for self, spouse, and children
- Group Term Life Insurance and Group Accident Insurance programs
- Health & Wellness programs including annual health screening, weekly health sessions for employees.
- Employee Assistance Program
- 5 days of leave every year for Voluntary Service in additional to Humanitarian Leaves
- Broad Variety of learning platforms
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Programs
- Reimbursements – Home Internet & Mobile Phone
- Employee Referral Program
- Leaves – Paternity Leave (4 Weeks), Maternity Leave (up to 26 weeks), Bereavement Leave (5 days)