Senior Media Planner

Philadelphia, PA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated healthcare media planning and client leadership for Lucid Group.

  • Own development and presentation of integrated media plans across digital, social, search, programmatic, and endemic channels.
  • Must-have: 3–5 years healthcare media planning experience.
  • Standout: Cross-functional collaboration with strategy, analytics, and creative teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop integrated media strategies that align to brand objectives across HCP and DTC audiences.
  • Translate marketing goals into comprehensive media plans spanning digital, social, search, programmatic, endemic, print, and point-of-care channels.
  • Partner with internal strategy, analytics, and creative teams to ensure media recommendations are audience-first and insight-driven.
  • Conduct audience segmentation, competitive analyses, and channel performance reviews to guide planning decisions.
  • Present media plans and collaborate on performance reports for clients, clearly articulating strategic rationale, learnings, and next steps.
  • Oversee implementation across multiple media channels, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and operational excellence.
  • Manage budgets, pacing, and performance tracking to achieve or exceed campaign KPIs.
  • Collaborate with analytics teams to evaluate media effectiveness and deliver actionable optimization recommendations.
  • Stay current on emerging media trends, audience data capabilities, and innovations across both regulated and consumer health landscapes.
  • Serve as a day-to-day client contact for assigned brands, providing proactive communication and strategic thought leadership.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications, or related field.
  • 3–5 years of media planning experience within healthcare, pharmaceutical, or consumer health industries.
  • Strong understanding of both HCP and consumer (DTC/OTC) media strategies, including digital, search, social, and endemic platforms.
  • Familiarity with healthcare media regulations, MLR processes, and privacy-compliant data targeting (e.g., NPI-based or condition-based).
  • Analytical mindset with proficiency in campaign management and reporting tools (Google Ads, Meta Ads Manager, DSPs, etc.).
  • Excellent project management, presentation, and client communication skills.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative agency environment managing multiple priorities simultaneously.
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    Lucid Group

    Lucid Group: Catalysts for Change In today’s complex healthcare environment, even the most brilliant science can stall, with 70% of healthcare brands not hitting launch expectations. At Lucid Group, we change that. We partner with clients to translate evidence into clarity, earn unwavering belief and enable the confident action that drives behaviour change and creates measurable impact. We are Catalysts for Change. How we Catalyse Change Lucid Insights: We transform complexity into clarity for agile decision making Lucid Causes: We unite people to enact change through shared purpose Lucid Outcomes: We turn belief into action to achieve practice change Powered by a Purposeful Fusion of Expertise Lucid Group fuses scientific rigour, behavioural insight, commercial ingenuity, creative storytelling and strategic foresight to accelerate real-world outcomes. This fusion powers how we work: integrated, agile and outcome focused. It enables us to deliver what others can’t: solutions that align teams, remove friction, creating the momentum to deliver lasting impact. Our cross-functional teams of 400+ Lucidians co-create evidence-led programmes that span commercial/medical strategy and communications, AI-enabled insight, and targeted activation, all focused on accelerating understanding, adoption, and measurable impact in real-world practice. When we say we are catalysts for change, we mean it. The impact is clear, for example, on our work on consensus programmes, which have collectively elevated standards of care across 15+ therapy areas, potential reaching 700+ million patients worldwide. We at Lucid transform lives. Ready to exceed expectations? Visit our website to see how Lucid can help you achieve more. https://wearelucidgroup.com/

    Founded in 2007
    London, England, GBR
    528 employees (115 in marketing)

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