Director, Medical (Pharma Ad Agency Experience Required)

About the role

What Does a Director, Medical Do?

We are seeking an experienced and knowledgeable Director, Medical for our medical team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in medical science, excellent communication skills, and a passion for translating complex medical information into impactful advertising. As the Director, Medical, you will be responsible for overseeing all medical content, ensuring scientific accuracy, and collaborating with creative and account teams to develop effective campaigns.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Our employees are tasked with delivering excellent business results through the efforts of their teams. These results are achieved by:

• Consulting with Creative, Account and Planning teams to develop compelling medical content across all digital and print media
• Identifying new medical advances and opportunities, and implementing disease state knowledge to drive promotional efforts
• Analyzing clinical data, conducting literature searches, participating in medical conferences and performing competitive analyses
• Engaging and informing colleagues, healthcare professionals and clients, including medical, legal and regulatory groups
• Collaborating in the development of EVERSANA INTOUCH POVs and recommendations with clients
• Ensuring 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.
• All other duties as assigned

Qualifications & Requirements

What Are We Looking For?

• 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
• A 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

Additional Information

• OUR CULTURAL BELIEFS: Patient Minded I act with the patient's best interest in mind.
• Client Delight I own every client experience and its impact on results.
• Take Action I am empowered and hold myself accountable.
• Embrace Diversity I create an environment of awareness and respect.
• Grow Talent I own my development and invest in the development of others.
• Win Together I passionately connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime to achieve results.
• Communication Matters I speak up to create transparent, thoughtful, and timely dialogue.
• Always Innovate I am bold and creative in everything I do.

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EVERSANA is committed to providing competitive salaries and benefits for all employees. If this job posting includes a base salary range, it represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position and is not applicable to locations outside of the U.S. Compensation will be determined based on relevant experience, other job-related qualifications/skills, and geographic location (to account for comparative cost of living). More information about EVERSANA's benefits package can be found at eversana.com/careers. EVERSANA reserves the right to modify this base salary range and benefits at any time.

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