Senior Medical Director

Publicis Groupe; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitas Health, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks a Senior Medical Director to oversee accuracy and relevance of medical content for pharma/biotech clients and to drive healthcare professional marketing strategies.

The role includes leading scientifically complex therapeutic areas, ensuring scientific integrity, and guiding cross-functional teams on strategy, messaging, and new business pitches.

Qualifications

• Leads high-profile and scientifically complex therapeutic areas that shapes a product and provides insights which help to drive brand strategy and corresponding programming.
• Therapeutic expert for assigned brand(s) and responsible for the quality, scientific and medical accuracy and integrity of scientific content.
• Quicks learns and understands complex mechanism of disease, pathways, trial design methodologies, statistical analyses; translates and disseminates accordingly.
• Proficient at medical writing and summarization of medical data and scientific concepts supporting message development for HCP and DTC audiences.
• Educates creative, marketing, planning, innovations, and business strategy & analysis teams about clients products and the diseases they treat.
• Supports new business pitch content and strategies, including presenting agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations.
• Maintains thorough knowledge of key competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance).
• Proactively and independently conducts research on the product and/or therapeutic category, stays abreast of the medical literature related to client’s brands.

Responsibilities

• Leads high-profile and scientifically complex therapeutic areas that shapes a product and provides insights which help to drive brand strategy and corresponding programming.
• Therapeutic expert for assigned brand(s) and responsible for the quality, scientific and medical accuracy and integrity of scientific content.
• Quicks learns and understands complex mechanism of disease, pathways, trial design methodologies, statistical analyses; translates and disseminates accordingly.
• Proficient at medical writing and summarization of medical data and scientific concepts supporting message development for HCP and DTC audiences.
• Educates creative, marketing, planning, innovations, and business strategy & analysis teams about clients products and the diseases they treat.
• Supports new business pitch content and strategies, including presenting agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations.
• Maintains thorough knowledge of key competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance).
• Proactively and independently conducts research on the product and/or therapeutic category, stays abreast of the medical literature related to client’s brands.

Skills

Medical writing

Therapeutic expertise

Scientific reasoning

Team leadership

Medical strategy

Research

Job description

Company description

Digitas Health is the modern creative agency that takes on the biggest moments in healthcare, raises the standard of creative, and connects people, partners, and ideas to create work that earns its place in culture. Purpose-built for today’s complex and evolving landscape, we partner with some of the world’s largest healthcare brands to do big things by moving faster, connecting deeper, and unlocking new possibilities at the intersection of creativity, data, technology, and empathy. Guided by our purpose, Connected for Good, and fueled by a vibrant, magnetic culture—we deliver meaningful work that drives relevance, changes behavior, and creates lasting impact, always grounded in humanity, not just technology. As part of Publicis Health and Publicis Groupe, we bring together entrepreneurial energy with the scale, stability, and depth of one of the world’s leading communications networks.

At Digitas Health, what sets us apart isn’t just who we work with, it’s how we work and how it feels to be here. Our culture attracts curious, driven people who want to make a difference and be part of something bigger. Our teams are intentionally crafted across disciplines, perspectives, and experience levels, bringing strategy, creativity, data, and technology together from the start. We believe the best ideas come from curiosity, collaboration, and healthy debate and we expect people here to be thoughtful, engaged, and eager to shape what’s next. If you’re energized by complexity, motivated by impact, and excited to help redefine how healthcare connects with people, we’d love to meet you!

Overview

The Senior Medical Director oversees the accuracy and relevance of content created for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and device industry clients, as well as playing a central role in developing healthcare professional marketing strategies and tactics.

Responsibilities

• Leads high-profile and scientifically complex therapeutic areas that shapes a product and provides insights which help to drive brand strategy and corresponding programming.
• Therapeutic expert for assigned brand(s) and responsible for the quality, scientific and medical accuracy and integrity of scientific content.
• Quicks learns and understands complex mechanism of disease, pathways, trial design methodologies, statistical analyses; translates and disseminates accordingly.
• Proficient at medical writing and summarization of medical data and scientific concepts supporting message development for HCP and DTC audiences.
• Educates creative, marketing, planning, innovations, and business strategy & analysis teams about clients products and the diseases they treat.
• Supports new business pitch content and strategies, including presenting agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations.
• Maintains thorough knowledge of key competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance).
• Proactively and independently conducts research on the product and/or therapeutic category, stays abreast of the medical literature related to client’s brands.
• Proficient with medical strategy initiatives (competitive set analysis, defining clinical value proposition, informing brand positioning, etc.).
• Generates actionable insights and perspectives on disease-related topics, treatment categories, and healthcare professional attitudes and behaviors.
• Supervises medical writers on his/her accounts.

Qualifications

• Leads high-profile and scientifically complex therapeutic areas that shapes a product and provides insights which help to drive brand strategy and corresponding programming.
• Therapeutic expert for assigned brand(s) and responsible for the quality, scientific and medical accuracy and integrity of scientific content.
• Quicks learns and understands complex mechanism of disease, pathways, trial design methodologies, statistical analyses; translates and disseminates accordingly.
• Proficient at medical writing and summarization of medical data and scientific concepts supporting message development for HCP and DTC audiences.
• Educates creative, marketing, planning, innovations, and business strategy & analysis teams about clients products and the diseases they treat.
• Supports new business pitch content and strategies, including presenting agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations.
• Maintains thorough knowledge of key competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance).
• Proactively and independently conducts research on the product and/or therapeutic category, stays abreast of the medical literature related to client’s brands.