VP, Scientific Strategy

Klick; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading medical communications agency in Toronto is seeking a VP of Scientific Strategy to innovate and lead medical communications projects. The ideal candidate should have over 8 years of experience, a PhD or MD, and exceptional client engagement skills. The role involves collaborating with multidisciplinary experts to deliver high-impact solutions and mentoring a high-performing team.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in medical communications or education agency.
• Innovative strategic and tactical thinking is essential.
• Comfort with integrating AI into medical communications work.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic planning for medical communications projects.
• Innovate and implement solutions for medical engagement challenges.
• Build high-value relationships with clients.
• Contribute to project planning and execution in a collaborative manner.
• Support mentoring and development of team members.
• Participate in new business pitches with key contributors.

Skills

Medical communications expertise

Strategic thinking

Excellent communication skills

Workshop moderation skills

Client engagement

Innovation in medical communications

Education

PhD or MD

Job description

About Klick Health

Meet a different kind of workplace. Klick Health is an ecosystem of brilliant minds working to realize the full potential of their people and clients in life sciences since 1997. And we’re still growing fast, even after two decades. What does that mean for you? As Klick experiences exponential growth year-over-year, so do the people who help make it happen. Because we’re constantly evolving and changing, we invest in talent early and often, to develop future leaders at all levels. We’re one of the country’s Top 10 Great Workplaces, 10 Most Inspiring Cultures, Best Workplace for Innovators, Best Managed, and Fastest Growing. We know that career paths are seldom simple and straightforward. And that\u2019s an asset. If you feel like you\u2019d be a good fit for this role, we encourage you to apply and take the first steps to starting your career journey at Klick!

About Our Medical Craft

As the single largest medical team integrated across a single agency, the Medical team uncovers scientific truth through our board expertise in science and regulatory, medical strategy, medical communications, and value, access and reimbursement. The Medical team assumes responsibility for understanding the clinical aspects in depth to discover unique offerings and believes in the importance of shaping the brand-building process as early as possible: forming the scientific narrative, the language included in the label, and identifying where the brand plays in the buying process.

Job Description

Are you passionate about shaping the future of medical communications? Do you have a deep understanding of the healthcare industry and a knack for developing innovative strategies? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a VP of Scientific Strategy.

In this role you will utilize your detailed experience in medical communications to design, execute, and optimize world-class engagement strategies. You will support a diverse variety of clients and challenges, with a specific focus on designing medical engagement solutions of the future for our medical affairs and commercial medical communications clients. You will be a go-to expert for designing and leading strategic projects including workshops and medical communications planning, as well as being a key strategic contributor to new business pitches and proposals. You will collaborate and interface with a variety of internal multi-disciplinary experts and teams across different Klick crafts, including client services, medical strategy, medical writing, activation strategy, technology, and data/analytics, to deliver groundbreaking, innovative and high-impact solutions for our clients.

Responsibilities

• Strategic and tactical planning: Bring leadership to medical communications strategic and tactical planning for multiple medical affairs and commercial client workstreams
• Innovation: Design and implement innovative approaches, frameworks and solutions to address clients’ medical engagement challenges and evolve Klick’s offerings, in partnership with other crafts
• Client engagement: Play a key role in fulfilling Klick’s vision to be a transformative medical agency partner by building high-value strategic relationships with our clients
• Project leadership and execution: Contribute to project briefs/plans and provide leadership in coordinating and executing a diverse array of projects and tactics in a highly collaborative and cross-discipline manner
• Project execution: Contributing in a versatile and hands-on manner to the execution of a wide variety of projects and strategic/content deliverables, including review of medical writing deliverables
• Thought leadership: Continuously support innovation and growth strategies through thought leadership, trend monitoring and authorship of proactive POVs and recommendations for clients
• People development: Contribute to mentoring and line management (as required) as we build out our team of high-performing, top medical communications talent
• Growth: Participate in new business pitches and activities working closely with the SVP for Scientific Innovation and other key contributors

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a medical communications or medical education agency
• Experienced across a breadth of medical communications strategic and tactical deliverables
• Innovative strategic and tactical thinking
• Excellent communication, presentation, client facing and workshop moderation skills
• Ability to be versatile, hands-on, highly collaborative and flexible in solving a wider variety of client problems and ensuring the success of our medical affairs and communications client engagements
• Scientific degree, PhD or MD preferred
• Knowledge, curiosity, and passion about innovation in medical communications are a must
• Comfort with and enthusiasm for integrating AI into your work

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Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities.

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