The Medical Strategy Director is responsible for understanding the scientific and clinical aspects of their assigned businesses and brands, as well as serve as a key strategic scientific resource for both internal teams and clients. In this leadership role you will leverage science in brand differentiation and communications, collaborate with copywriters and medical writers, as well as the larger agency leadership teams including New Business, to represent the scientific perspective throughout creative development to ensure scientific and clinical relevance. You will be responsible for managing a team inclusive of medical strategists and senior medical strategists.
You will ensure the Medical Strategy team works in a continues effort to develop a strategic skill sets in an effort to uncover the most compelling insights in which to differentiate a brand in a medically viable and compelling perspective, constantly pushing to make Famously Effective work.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:
· Directly produce scientific and clinical information output that is relevant, accurate, and on-strategy
· Represent the scientific perspective throughout the strategic and creative process
· Demonstrate depth of understanding for multiple products, pharmaceuticals, devices and disease states
· Review relevant medical content, develop strategies and tactics regarding disease stage and therapeutic agents, and distill the medical and scientific information into strategic insights and actionable ideas
· Leading the development of strategic medical content for communication planning initiatives, new business opportunities/proposals and participating in capabilities presentations for prospective clients
· Ensure that projects are technically accurate and audience appropriate
· Develop scientific messages, consult on concepts, and advise as a scientific sounding board
· Use science to differentiate brands and create compelling programs
· Partner with strategic planning on insight mining, participate by interviewing physicians and patients as appropriate
· Maintain awareness of evolving landscape, new industry developments, therapeutic area trends, and pharmaceutical/biotech company pipelines
· Lead brand strategy for highly scientific brands
· Mentor and manage junior members of the Medical Strategy team
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
· Experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing
· Must be able to provide scientific and medical expertise across a broad range of therapeutic categories
· An advanced scientific degree (Ph.D., MD, PharmD) preferred
· 6-10 years of experience in a Medical Communications
· Creative: Putting together two things to create a third thing no one’s ever seen before
· Productive: Acting on ideas to make things happen and get stuff done
· Collaborative: Focused on the greater good versus personal gain
· Adaptable: Ready and able to embrace change
WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER:?
Challenging Work - As leaders in the health advertising industry, we thrive on solving complex problems and innovation. Each employee is encouraged to bring their best ideas forward to solve problems.??
Dedicated Team - It’s in our DNA to work hard and play hard: celebrate our wins, laugh and have fun. We are stronger, together, when we are open and real. At Tank WW, everyone is valued and plays an important role in our shared success. We care for our people and our clients.??
Global Community - Support from the WPP People community and bring your contribution to a greater good while collaborating on WPP strategic projects or initiatives.??
Perks and Benefits -The wellness of our employees is at the core of our business, therefore we offer competitive benefits:??
- Competitive compensation package??
- Extensive Group Insurance Program on Day 1??
- Vacation according to experience??
- Paid Christmas shutdown?
- Extended long weekends on statutory holidays (extra days off annually)?
- Work-life balance measures??
Tank Worldwide is committed to providing a barrier-free work environment. As such, we will make accommodations available to applicants with disabilities upon request during the recruitment process.
Tank Worldwide is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, colour, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the province where we operate. At Tank, we value the insights and innovation that diverse and inclusive teams bring to work.