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About the Role

The Senior Medical Director oversees the accuracy and relevance of content for healthcare clients and plays a central role in developing marketing strategies and tactics for healthcare professionals.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-profile and scientifically complex therapeutic areas to shape products and provide insights for brand strategy and programming.
• Serve as the therapeutic expert for assigned brands, ensuring the quality, scientific, and medical accuracy of content.
• Quickly learn and understand complex disease mechanisms, pathways, trial design, and statistical analyses, translating and disseminating this information.
• Perform medical writing and summarize medical data and scientific concepts to support message development for HCP and DTC audiences.
• Educate creative, marketing, planning, innovations, and business strategy & analysis teams about client products and diseases.
• Support new business pitch content and strategies, including presenting agency's professional marketing insights.
• Maintain thorough knowledge of key competitors, including their strengths, weaknesses, positioning, and performance.
• Proactively and independently research products and therapeutic categories, staying updated on relevant medical literature.
• Utilize proficiency in medical strategy initiatives, including competitive set analysis, defining clinical value proposition, and informing brand positioning.
• Generate actionable insights and perspectives on disease-related topics, treatment categories, and healthcare professional attitudes and behaviors.
• Supervise medical writers on assigned accounts.

Requirements

• Doctoral level (PharmD, PhD) degree in healthcare; clinical experience beyond graduate training preferred.
• At least 5-7 years of healthcare agency experience or pharmaceutical, biotech, or device company experience.
• Familiarity with US pharmaceutical marketing regulations.
• Familiarity with pharmaceutical industry medical-legal review processes.
• Teaching and mentoring experience.
• Ability to read and interpret the medical literature.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Familiarity with AI tools preferred.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.
• Proactive and demonstrating initiative to learn and lead projects.
• Ability to scale from detail-oriented tasks to higher-level strategic tasks.
• HIV or infectious disease healthcare advertising experience is preferred.
• Collaborative, professional, and strong communication skills preferred.

Skills

• Medical writing
• Summarization of medical data
• Message development
• Medical strategy
• Competitive set analysis
• Clinical value proposition
• Brand positioning
• Insight generation
• Supervision
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft PowerPoint

Experience Level

• 5-7 years

Education Level

• Doctoral level (PharmD, PhD)

Salary/Compensations

• USD $106,780.00 - USD $153,405.00/Annually

Benefits

• Medical coverage
• Dental
• Vision
• Disability
• 401K
• Parental and family care leave
• Family forming assistance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Flexible time off

About the Company

• Digitas Health is a modern creative agency focused on the healthcare industry, connecting people, partners, and ideas to create impactful work.
• The agency partners with major healthcare brands, leveraging creativity, data, technology, and empathy to drive relevance and change behavior.
• As part of Publicis Health and Publicis Groupe, Digitas Health combines entrepreneurial energy with the scale and stability of a leading communications network.
• The company fosters a culture that attracts curious, driven individuals who want to make a difference and be part of something bigger.
• Teams are intentionally crafted across disciplines to foster collaboration and innovation.
• Publicis Groupe's motto 'Viva La Différence' emphasizes the value of diversity and inclusion, fostering belonging and equitable experiences for all talent.

Equal Opportunity

• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.