Senior Medical Director

Digitas Health; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 107,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Digitas Health, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks a Senior Medical Director to lead across accounts, ensure content accuracy for pharmaceutical, biotech and device clients, and shape marketing strategies.

The role includes mentoring medical writers, presenting insights to clients, and maintaining up-to-date knowledge of literature and industry regulations. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level degree in healthcare required with graduate training preferred.
• Experience in healthcare agency or pharmaceutical/biotech/device company preferred.
• Familiarity with US pharmaceutical marketing regulations and medical-legal review processes.
• Teaching and mentoring experience; ability to translate medical literature for teams and clients.
• Ability to develop and present client materials and data clearly.

Responsibilities

• Leads medical/scientific strategy recommendations and partners on new program concepts.
• Serves as trusted scientific advisor in client conversations and defenses of recommendations.
• Mentors junior medical team members and oversees medical writers on accounts.
• Stays current with medical literature related to client brands and competitors.
• Contributes to new business pitches with professional marketing insights.

Skills

Teaching & mentoring

Medical literature interpretation

Client presentation skills

Regulatory familiarity

Education

Doctoral degree (MD/DO/PhD/PharmD) in healthcare

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft PowerPoint

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 is an emerging leader across multiple accounts with broader brand influence, versatile client-facing consultant across clients and strategy disciplines. 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.
• Educates creative, marketing, planning, innovations, and business strategy & analysis teams about clients products and the diseases they treat.
• Works on problems of diverse scope requiring evaluation of identifiable factors; exercises judgment in selecting methods to reach solutions.
• Leads medical/scientific strategy recommendations and partners with account and strategy leads on new program concept development.
• Serves as a trusted scientific advisor, leading client conversations and defending recommendations.
• Contributes to new business pitch content and strategies, including presenting agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations.
• Stays abreast of the medical literature related to client’s brands.
• Maintains thorough knowledge of key competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance).
• Proactively and independently conducts research on the product and/or therapeutic category.
• Generates actionable insights and perspectives on disease-related topics, treatment categories, and healthcare professional attitudes and behaviors.
• Supervises medical writers on his/her accounts.
• Mentors junior medical team members.
• Promotional review accountability: defending claims, annotation and claims substantiation.

Qualifications

• Doctoral level (MD, DO, PhD, PharmD) degree in healthcare; clinical experience beyond graduate training preferred.
• Healthcare agency experience (preferred) 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; ability to translate and disseminate take-aways to teams and clients.
• Facility with Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Facility for reference management.
• Ability to develop and present materials to clients, and presenting data and statistics simply and clearly.

Additional Information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

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

Compensation Range: USD $106,780.00 - USD $153,405.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/12/2026.