Community Medical Director

Role Overview

As Medical Director, you will consult with Planning, Account, and Creative teams to develop compelling medical strategy and medical content for both digital and print media. You will identify new medical advances and opportunities, utilizing disease state knowledge to drive promotional efforts. Your role involves analyzing clinical data, conducting literature searches, performing competitive analyses, and developing medical content for communication materials. Additionally, you will engage and inform colleagues, healthcare professionals, and clients, including those in medical, legal, and regulatory groups, ensuring that medical communications and promotional materials meet and exceed client objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Guide the creation of clinically cogent and engaging promotional and KOL materials while ensuring effective use of clinical data to reach strategic brand objectives.
• Lead the medical strategy in pitches and proposals for the development of new business.
• Consult on the medical content of expert speaker communications, KOL engagements, advisory boards, and related activities.
• Improve medical literacy across contributing agency teams by providing medical understanding on disease states, clinical trials, treatments, and competition.
• Guide submissions for client medical/regulatory approval processes and incorporate client and regulatory feedback.

Required Qualifications

• Passion for science, medicine, and innovation, with a proven track record of communicating medical advances to diverse audiences.
• Ability to lead and execute development of medical strategy and medical content, including data analysis for a wide range of complex projects with minimal review or direction.
• Capability to independently and accurately incorporate strategic concepts into projects and to guide others in doing so.
• Skill in interpreting complex clinical data into compelling stories (copy).
• Excellent verbal, written, and organizational skills; insightful data analysis and strong presentation abilities; and a drive to build client and team relationships.
• Native or fluent English (or any relevant language for roles dedicated to specific local markets) required; additional languages welcome.
• Advanced degree (MSci, PhD, MD, or PharmD) in a medical sciences related field.
• At least 6 years of experience in a healthcare agency industry supporting scientific communications, with experience in European and global (ex‑US) markets.

Equal Opportunity Statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds who share a passion for improving the lives of patients and leading innovation within the healthcare industry.