Lauren Leahy

• Managed and developed medical communications and education strategy, projects and events for a market-leading biologic, including opportunity identification, speaker engagement and briefing, and budget management.
• Supported the development and implementation of the commercial and marketing plan.
• Managed and developed scientific publication plan and specific deliverables, such as conference abstracts, posters, and presentations, including liaison with local and international authors, as well as with global colleagues.
• Developed non-promotional materials for regional medical liaison and sales force use with healthcare practitioners (specialists, GPs, and nurses), and accompanying them on visits to see these materials used in the field.
• Reviewed all promotional and non-promotional materials to align with marketing (brand) and medical strategies, as well as with the Medicines of Australia Code of Conduct.
• Assisted the medical information team in responding to healthcare practitioner, patient, and consumer inquiries.
• Recognized as one of the company’s top performers for 2013–2014.
• Successfully led cross-functional teams to deliver a huge volume of high-quality materials within a complex matrix environment.
• Established effective internal relationships, so that many medical projects were often funded by commercial budgets (with provision of appropriate business cases) and effective cross-functional partnerships were formed to create events that spanned across therapeutic areas.
• Helped align objectives across functions, brands and personalities.
• Established effective external relationships with KOLs in osteoporosis, including a range of specialists, GPs, nurses, and allied health professionals.
• Successfully organized several medical education events each year, including national standalone events and sessions at third-party events. Attendance and medical metrics according to HCP feedback were always high.
• Visited the Canadian affiliate to demonstrate effective pre- and post-event digital communication that had introduced in Australia.
• Led a push within the medical communications functional team to explore and adopt new technologies.
• Reviewed an enormous number of promotional and non-promotional materials, helping the team navigate areas of conflict, and maintaining a ‘core claims’ document for team use.
• Managed a huge array of internal and external stakeholders, including partner companies, HCPs, international colleagues, and suppliers.

Elixir is a medical education company providing education, marketing, consultancy, and related services to doctors and other healthcare professionals, on behalf of the pharmaceutical industry.

• Managed medical education projects of all sizes for pharmaceutical marketing teams.
• Fostered and maintained effective business relationships with key stakeholders at a range of pharmaceutical companies, as well as with their key customers.
• Included work as a senior medical writer (researching, writing, editing, and proofreading), plus complete project management and liaison with key stakeholders within client companies and among their customers.
• Worked with cross-functional teams to ensure that each project was completed to the satisfaction of all, on time and on budget.
• Managed medical writers, production coordinators, graphic designers, and support staff working on each project.
• Oversaw the work of various suppliers.