Director, Medical

About the role

Eversana InTouch is a global, full-service marketing agency network serving the life sciences industry, part of a fully integrated commercialization platform through Eversana. They provide next-generation creative and media services, enterprise solutions and data analytics. The Director, Medical oversees all medical content, ensures scientific accuracy, and collaborates with creative and account teams to develop effective campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Consult with Creative, Account and Planning teams to develop compelling medical content across all digital and print media
• Identify new medical advances and opportunities, and implement disease state knowledge to drive promotional efforts
• Analyze clinical data, conduct literature searches, participate in medical conferences and perform competitive analyses
• Engage and inform colleagues, healthcare professionals and clients, including medical, legal and regulatory groups
• Collaborate in the development of Eversana InTouch POVs and recommendations with clients
• Ensure medical communications and promotional pieces meet and surpass marketing team objectives
• Guide the creation of clinically cogent and engaging promotional and KOL materials while ensuring effective use of clinical data to reach strategic brand objectives
• Improve medical literacy across contributing agency teams; provide medical understanding on disease states, clinical trials, treatments and competition
• Guide submissions for client medical/regulatory approval processes and help to incorporate client and regulatory feedback
• Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias

Qualifications

• M.D., Ph.D. or Pharm.D. required with 5+ years of experience in an agency or pharmaceutical industry supporting scientific communications, medical affairs or medical education
• Passion for science, medicine and innovation, with a proven track record of communicating medical advances to different audiences
• Ability to lead and execute development of content, including data analysis for a wide range of complex projects with minimal review/direction
• Ability to independently and accurately incorporate strategic concepts into projects, as well as the capability to guide others to do so
• Understanding of clinical practice, with the ability to perform scientific literature searches; can interpret complex clinical data into compelling stories (copy)
• Excellent verbal, written and organizational skills; insightful data analysis and accomplished presentation abilities, as well as the drive to build client and team relationships
• Insightful with a problem-solving, solution-oriented mindset; comfortable with leading client interactions and defending work and opinions
• Familiarity with FDA marketing regulations, AMA style and digital best practices
• Willingness to travel is a requirement