Associate Medical Director

New York City, NY (On-site)

$81K/yr – $117K/yrMid Level4+ years expFull time

Posted 9 days ago

Job Summary

Lead medical writing and mentorship on healthcare professional brands, driving content across promotional, educational, and compliant materials while researching literature and competitive landscapes, and collaborating with creative and regulatory teams.

  • Own content development and mentorship
  • Research literature and competitive landscape
  • Ensure regulatory compliance and rigorous accuracy

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Under the mentorship of the Medical Director works with copywriters to build materials for scientifically complex therapeutic areas
  • Potentially write content for the following: sales aids, advertisements, print and online, speaker presentations, educational and promotional videos, animation, professional websites, and letters to healthcare professionals
  • Insert appropriate citations in all copy they generate
  • Collaborate with art directors on projects requiring alignment between image and copy
  • Support/defend copy in regulatory meetings
  • Revise copy based on feedback from client’s regulatory boards
  • Educates creative and marketing teams about clients products and the diseases they treat
  • Contributes to new business pitch content when necessary, including communicating agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations
  • Stays abreast of the medical literature related to client’s brands
  • Maintains detailed knowledge of key competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance)

Requirements

  • Master’s or Doctoral level (MD, DO, PhD, PharmD) degree in healthcare; clinical experience beyond graduate training preferred
  • At least four years experience writing medical healthcare agency materials
  • 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
  • Some instructing and mentoring experience
  • Ability to read and interpret medical literature
  • Facility with Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Prism, and other related programs

Benefits

  • Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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Digitas Health

Digitas Health is connected, for good. The first global connected-health agency, we specialize in bringing health brands and humans closer—as they should be. Health is for all of us, after all. So where data informs, we add our instinct. Where intelligence empowers, we bring our empathy. And where creativity comes first, we remember it comes from all of us. Because for us, good is more than a metric. It’s a mindset. A mantra. A must. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago, Digitas Health is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Healthcare Communications Group. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Founded in 1990
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
971 employees (355 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$81K/yr – $117K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
162 (17% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
36.4%
Direct
47.6%
Referral
7.3%
Social
7.4%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~971
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Associate Medical Director

Digitas Health · New York City, NY · On-site