Senior Medical Director — Therapeutic Strategy & Writing

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

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.