Senior Medical Strategist (Health)

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$60K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive scientific strategy and medical accuracy across pharma marketing initiatives with broad therapeutic scope and advanced degrees.

  • Directly produce accurate scientific outputs and act as medical sounding board
  • Broad therapeutic expertise with cross-category medical review
  • Collaborate with strategic planning and engage physicians/patients for insights

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Directly produces 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 and develop strategies and tactics regarding disease stage and therapeutic agents and distills the medical and scientific information into strategic insights and actionable ideas
  • Critically review content developed by others in the agency, including copywriters, medical writers, and AMDs
  • Proactively and proficiently provide strategic medical recommendations based on the changing market to enhance brand communications
  • 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

Requirements

  • Experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing desired; direct experience developing medical communications programs such as scientific platform development, advisory board preparation, training modules, publications preferred
  • 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
  • 3-6 years of experience in a Medical Communications

Preferred

  • 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

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive benefits package
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Grey’s mission is to create Famously Effective ideas that move people, business, and the world forward—harnessing the power of creativity to solve business problems and deliver growth for the world’s most influential brands and companies including P&G, Volvo, Haleon, Circle K, and The Coca-Cola Company, among others. This year alone, Grey was recognized as a 2025 Fast Company World Changing Ideas winner, earned 7 Grand Prix from prestigious global award shows, and secured 22 Lions at the 2025 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including a Gold Lion in every region. Newsweek also named Grey a Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace (2024) and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women and Professional Services (2025). Grey is part of WPP (NYSE:WPP).

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