Role Summary
The Executive Director, Global Publications provides enterprise-wide strategic leadership for the development, governance, and execution of the global scientific publications program within Medical Affairs at Madrigal Pharmaceuticals. This role defines the long-term publications strategy and ensures alignment with corporate medical strategy, asset lifecycle planning, and global scientific communications objectives, while maintaining full regulatory, legal, and industry compliance.
Responsibilities
- Publications Strategy and Governance
- Define and own the global publications strategy, prioritizing scientific communication needs for all internal and external stakeholders across the product’s lifecycle
- Ensure annual and long-range publication plans are fully aligned with Medical Affairs strategy, asset lifecycle planning, clinical development milestones, and corporate scientific communication objectives
- Establish and oversee the global publications operating model, including governance frameworks, decision rights, execution standards, and budget oversight
- Monitor and interpret evolving scientific, disease-state, and industry publication trends, translating insights into forward-looking publication strategy
- Drive innovation in planning, including publication extenders, voice of the patient and appropriate use of AI technology
- Publication Standards
- Provide strategic oversight for the development of abstracts, posters, oral presentations, and peer-reviewed manuscripts to ensure scientific rigors, consistency, and enterprise alignment
- Ensure all publications adhere to GPP, ICMJE, AMA, regulatory, legal, and industry compliance standards, with global consistency
- Oversee end-to-end content quality assurance, including planning analyses, data verification, scientific accuracy, and alignment to core scientific narratives
- Ensure standards for publication repositories, archival systems, and version control across regions and vendors
- Executive Collaboration & External Engagement
- Serve as the senior leader to external authors, investigators, scientific societies, and congress leadership to shape Madrigal’s scientific presence. This includes leadership of any external publication steering committees.
- Act as the strategic publications partner to Medical Affairs, Clinical Development, Regulatory, Commercial, Market Access, Legal, Compliance, and other relevant divisions to ensure alignment and impact of publications
- Ensure the Publication Steering Review Team is driving integrated prioritization and cross-functional alignment across Med Affairs and Clinical Development
- Provide executive oversight of external publication vendors and agencies, including selection, contracting, RFPs, performance management, and budget governance, with focus on publications
- Global Program Leadership
- Direct the global publications portfolio, ensuring timely, high-quality, and high-impact execution across all regions
- Integrate publications strategy with disease-state communications, congress planning, medical education, lexicons, and global scientific narratives
- Oversee global budget planning and optimization for all publications activities, vendor engagements, and associated initiatives
- Organizational Leadership & Talent Development
- Build, lead, and scale a high-performing global publications team
- Establish a culture of scientific excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement through coaching, succession planning, and performance management
- Align team capabilities and resourcing models with current and future needs, ensuring readiness to support any additional assets or program expansions
- Compliance & Quality
- Ensure all activities comply with company SOPs, industry standards, and applicable regulations
- Uphold the highest ethical standards in all internal and external engagements
- Travel Requirement
- Willingness to travel up to 30% for conferences, various corporate locations, and stakeholder meetings, including overnight trips
Qualifications
- Required: Advanced terminal degree in a scientific or healthcare discipline (MD, PharmD, PhD, DNP, MPH, MS or equivalent) with CMPP certification desired
- Required: A minimum of 18+ years of progressive experience in healthcare, clinical research, medical affairs, or scientific communications, including significant executive-level leadership responsibility
- Required: Extensive headquarters and global publications leadership experience, with direct accountability for enterprise publications strategy and governance
- Required: Demonstrated success partnering at the senior and executive leadership level with Clinical Development, HEOR/RWE, Biostatistics, Regulatory, Commercial, and Medical Affairs
- Required: Expertise in medical writing, global publications planning, and scientific communications, with a track record of high-impact peer-reviewed output
- Required: Proven experience leading large, complex portfolios, balancing multiple global priorities, timelines, and cross-functional interdependencies
- Required: Executive presence and exceptional communication skills, with the ability to influence at the C-suite, Board, and external scientific leadership levels
- Required: Deep working knowledge of ICMJE, AMA, FDA, EU, and global compliance standards with demonstrated audit-ready governance experience
- Required: Recognized ability to build and sustain senior-level relationships with key opinion leaders, editors of journals, congress leadership and others
- Required: Demonstrated ability to translate complex clinical and scientific data into enterprise scientific narratives and strategy
- Required: Proven enterprise-level insight into scientific content and communications trends, including digital, data, and innovation-driven publishing models
- Required: Experience interfacing with business and corporate leadership to shape corporate medical and scientific strategy
- Required: Strong knowledge of US/EU healthcare systems, global regulatory standards (e.g., FDA, CE), and medical affairs compliance standards
- Required: Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, virtual communication platforms (e.g., Zoom, Teams), and CRM systems (e.g., Veeva)
- Preferred: Clinical experience in a healthcare environment (e.g., medicine, pharmacy, laboratory, nursing)
- Preferred: In-depth knowledge of liver disease; experience in cardiometabolic health, or Metabolic Dysfunction–Associated Steatohepatitis (MASH)
- Preferred: Adaptable and proactive in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Education
- Advanced terminal degree in a scientific or healthcare discipline (MD, PharmD, PhD, DNP, MPH, MS or equivalent) with CMPP certification desired