VP Scientific Strategy

Fingerpaint Group; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Fingerpaint Group is seeking a VP of Scientific Strategy to translate science into strategic brand guidance and medical communications. You will lead a multilevel team, mentor scientists, and drive high-impact strategies across therapy areas, with a strong focus on oncology.

You will partner with client teams to elevate delivery quality, pursue new business opportunities, and foster cross-office collaboration across Fingerpaint.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree (PhD preferred).
• Experience with oncology is required.
• 7–10 years in pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing.
• Experience developing medical communications programs preferred.
• Strong presentation skills in diverse settings.
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Word, and Adobe.

Responsibilities

• Drive brand building and strategic planning across disciplines.
• Mentor scientific strategists and oversee career development.
• Oversee a book of business with goals of growth and quality.
• Lead new business opportunities and client engagement.
• Foster collaboration across Fingerpaint offices.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Mentoring

Client relationships

Education

PhD preferred

Tools

PowerPoint

Word

Adobe

Job description

Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. From our inception, Fingerpaint has been driven by an unstoppable collective spirit of possibility. It’s that curiosity that’s at the heart of everything we do. From our legendary people-first culture to the hundreds of Fingerpainters who define us, we’ve reimagined what it means to be a healthcare and wellness advertising agency. Here, creativity happens naturally—we attract top talent and give them a space to grow and collaborate.

Objectives of This Role:

Are you hungry to help push the boundaries of what’s possible in medicine? Come join our team in translating the latest scientific discoveries into compelling brand strategies, provider education, and patient care. At Fingerpaint, we focus on infusing science into all aspects of a unified brand-building process to drive commercial and medical communication strategies. The VP, scientific strategy will need to utilize all of their capabilities as a scientist and a person, tapping into both their scientific thinking and creative core. Our ideal partner is a deep and dynamic thinker who can read beyond the data to create focused scientific concepts, push past observations to insights, and help guide our teams forward in strategic development. The VP, scientific strategy will have purview over a therapeutic category and a multilevel team while learning to train mentors, conceptualize/introduce novel business opportunities, and seamlessly move across all businesses to provide direction or support as needed.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner across the disciplines of strategy to drive brand building, unbranded initiatives, and communication planning
• Foster authentic and effective relationships with client brand and medical teams, as well as other relevant medical personnel (eg, key opinion leaders, MSLs, etc)
• Manage and mentor scientific strategists in all aspects of career and personal development
• Elevate the quality or increase efficiency of existing projects and propose novel ideas for Fingerpaint services or deliverables
• Partner in annual scope development and review
• Champion the culture of Fingerpaint and scientific strategy
• Oversee a distinct book of business and team of medical strategists with the goals of ensuring the highest quality of all deliverables, expanding medical business, and overall organic growth
• Self‑educate on innovation in the industry, therapeutic area, and medicine to conceptualize novel projects, programs, or platform
• Manage a team, overseeing workloads, diversity of assignments and experiences, and career development plan
• Lead new business opportunities (content and attendance)
• Develop a highly collaborative and agile working relationship with clients, providing proactive and reactive strategic consultancy
• Ability to flex into each brand within the agency to define projects and process, run workshops or advisory boards, or manage difficult projects/conversations
• Enable collaboration and cross‑selling across the offices of Fingerpaint
• Identify novel resources to elevate the knowledge base of our industry, driving more strategic, informed work across all brands

Job Requirements:

• Relevant degree (PhD preferred)
• Experience with oncology is required.
• Minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing
• Experience developing medical communications programs preferred
• Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings—one‑on‑one, small/large groups, with peers, subordinates, and bosses—both inside and outside the organization
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Adobe
• Constant curiosity with the passion to explore and create