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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)

Locations

IND - Bengaluru

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time

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