Senior Medical Director

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

• 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 agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations.

• Serves as a trusted scientific advisor, leading client conversations and defending recommendations.

• Stays abreast of the medical literature related to client’s 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.

Qualifications

• 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.