Senior Medical Director
Philadelphia, PA - USA
Job Summary
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 todays complex and evolving landscape we partner with some of the worlds 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 culturewe 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 worlds leading communications networks.
At Digitas Health what sets us apart isnt just who we work with its 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 whats next. If youre energized by complexity motivated by impact and excited to help redefine how healthcare connects with people wed love to meet you!
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.
- 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 agencys professional marketing insights at new business presentations.
- Stays abreast of the medical literature related to clients 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.
- 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.
Our Publicis Groupe motto Viva La Différence means were 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.
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Director
About Company
Publicis Media is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe ([Euronext Paris FR0000130577, CAC 40], alongside Publicis Communications, Publicis.Sapient and Publicis Healthcare. Led by Steve King, CEO, Publicis Media is powered by its five global brands, Starcom, Zenith, Spark ... View more