Director, Medical (Pharma Ad Agency Experience Required)

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$123K/yr – $170K/yrDirector/Executive5+ years expFull time

Posted 4 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the medical storytelling and regulatory-aligned content engine for life sciences campaigns, turning clinical data into promotable narratives and POVs with deep collaboration across teams.

  • Medical Content: Lead clinically cogent promotional materials using disease-state knowledge.
  • Clinical Data & Literature: Analyze data, perform literature searches, and translate into audience-ready copy.
  • Regulatory & Client Alignment: Guide FDA/AMA-compliant submissions and incorporate feedback from clients and regulatory bodies.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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

Nice to Have

    Benefits

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      EVERSANA INTOUCH

      As part of EVERSANA, we’re the first – and only – agency to be backed up by a fully integrated commercial services platform, giving us an unmatched understanding of the brand journey, a front seat to patients’ experiences across the continuum of care, and greater expertise on how to move levers for business impact. It’s why we’re able to think bigger and broader about brand success. To truly appreciate everything from what advocacy groups are talking about to how prescriptions are priced and delivered to what really happens in the field. We offer insights that others can’t. And we do it all while keeping an eye on the future, helping you envision what’s next.

      Founded in 2021
      Overland Park, Kansas, US
      1.2K employees (403 in marketing)

      Traffic Signals

      Monthly Visitors
      6.9K
      Monthly Google Ads Budget
      $7
      Traffic Source Mix
      Search
      35.4%
      Direct
      48.4%
      Referral
      7.9%
      Social
      6.7%
      Paid
      1.4%

      Headcount Trend

      Current headcount: ~1.2K

      Marketing Team

      Marketing Team Size
      273 (22% of company)
      Median Career Experience
      7 years
      Median Tenure
      4.2 years
      Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
      13

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