Director, Medical Strategy, VP

About the role

As Director of Medical Strategy - VP, you will spearhead medical excellence, overseeing team growth, client relationships, and strategic insights for a key client in the Ophthalmology category. You'll require expertise in multiple products and disease states, translating complex medical information into actionable brand strategies. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive business development, medical research, and innovation, while fostering talent development and department expansion.

Responsibilities

• Critically review agency-developed content, providing strategic medical recommendations to enhance brand communications.
• Stay current with industry trends to provide up-to-date recommendations for brands.
• Collaborate with internal teams, clients, and healthcare professionals (HCPs) to achieve brand objectives.
• Ensure consistent messaging by incorporating the brand's "medical hook" into new content.
• Identify and execute on medical opportunities to drive strategic and tactical development.
• Leverage data to tell compelling, differentiating stories and optimize brand communications.
• Facilitate and participate in proprietary workshops to drive strategic growth.
• Foster strong client relationships through participation in senior leader meetings and workshops.
• Contribute to business development by crafting medical insights and driving strategic recommendations for pitches.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (MS, MD, PhD, PharmD) in Clinical/Scientific field.
• 7+ years' relevant industry experience.
• Experience in Ophthalmology and retinal disease preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, conveying medical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong teamwork/collaboration, with efficient workflow management.
• Demonstrated leadership skills, including the supervision of direct reports.
• Experience developing and delivering strategic medical communications content, including scientific platforms, brand planning documents, and pitches.
• Ability to apply strategic skills to drive business results through contributions to brand strategy, medical opportunity identification, and driving growth.
• Financial and operational acumen related to staffing plans, department utilization, budgets, and resource allocation.

Benefits

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Pay

$175,000 - $220,000

Schedule

Our objective is to increase the requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.