Associate Director, Scientific Programs

DIA is a global healthcare association that mobilizes life science professionals from across all areas of expertise to engage with patients, peers, and thought leaders in a neutral environment on the issues of today and the possibilities of tomorrow. We envision a world where powerful health interventions and health-management tools are rapidly discovered, developed, approved, and made accessible to all.

The **Associate Director, Scientific Programs - EMEAI **will serve as a member of the DIA Global Science Team, and a functional unit leader for Science Staff in Europe, providing insights and guidance to program elements essential to build DIA’s scientific meeting and training portfolio, publications, and novel services and products by engaging with external thought leaders, internal experts, and volunteers. The role will have significant externally facing and thought leadership components, will aim to identify and deliver content that will help DIA harness collective know-how and create attractive products that support the EMEA business plan and the Global Science Team (GST) current priorities.

In this role you will:

- Lead the EMEAI Content Strategy process, in collaboration with the SVP/MD, EMEAI and the SVP/Global Head of Science Team to find new and emerging content areas and regulatory policy changes that affect DIA stakeholders and serve as a content matter leader for the DIA EMEAI team and GST.
- As a member of the EMEAI Leadership Team, develop and deliver valuable meeting and training products in line with DIA’s project management cycle, adhering to timelines and ensuring that the EMEA process functions efficiently and effectively.
- Identify content areas and topics to present new opportunities for DIA; use external and volunteer networking communities and events to keep abreast of issues and new content opportunities.
- Convene meetings of stakeholder groups to gather insight into emerging topics.
- Provide input to needs assessment processes to optimize the availability of appropriate data for content-related decision-making and proactive planning of the EMEA portfolio.
- Lead the EMEAI scientific program staff as they work with program committees in conceptualizing the content framework for DIA events; develop conference agendas, program descriptions, and objectives content; revise conference agendas based on input from and discussion with program committee members.
- Collaborate with global DIA team members to ensure training offerings align to global learning plan for both content and delivery channel. AS the EMEA expert, ensure attractive training products are developed in cooperation with the Learning team.
- Collaborate with the GST members, Regional Managers across DIA regions to develop ideas for new content areas and topics that could stimulate new events, courses, publications, or webinars or leverage the multiple content formats offered by DIA and participate in important partnership and business development discussions.
- Participate in strategic content identification activities of the EMEA region, such as meetings of the Content Advisory Committee (CAC) and the regional advisory council ACNA.
- Serve as a co-PI on DIA research projects, in collaboration with research partners from universities and research institutions.
- Contribute to the development of new content outputs using DIA channels, including educational programs, articles, blog entries, website content, social media channels, and other communication vehicles.
- Participate in selected post-event review sessions with program committees and debrief EMEA team to help drive continuous improvement.

To join us, you should have:

- Graduate degree required with an emphasis in the life sciences and/or health care; PhD or PharmD preferred.
- Minimum of 10 years of work experience, 7 years in healthcare/product development ecosystem required.
- Industry experience in pharmaceutical, association, medical education or healthcare required. Knowledge of or experience in research or life-cycle management of drugs, medical devices, or related products a plus.
- Experience and demonstrated success working with multiple stakeholders from different sectors in the biomedical sciences and therapeutic development and regulatory space
- Highly motivated and able to set and work against deadlines for multiple projects and coordinate the efforts of others to deliver high quality results.
- Experience working on global teams considered a plus.
- Proven project management and diplomacy skills
- Outstanding teamwork and team leadership skills.
- Ability to participate effectively in globally coordinated efforts, bringing EMEA forward, and driving optimal outcomes with a sense of winning as a global team.
- Highly effective written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills including the ability to convey scientific and technical thoughts in simple terms for internal and external audiences.
- Able to interact effectively and appropria