Associate Medical Director - Digitas Health

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers.  With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. 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.

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The Associate Medical Director is a medical writer and mentor to copywriters on health care professional brands! You will generate promotional and educational content to be used in marketing to HCPs. In this capacity, the Associate Medical Director has oversight for the accuracy and relevance of content crafted for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and device industry clients. 

This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.

Responsibilities 

• Under the mentorship of the Medical Director works with copywriters to build materials for scientifically complex therapeutic areas 
• Potentially write content for 
• Sales aids 
• Advertisements, print and online 
• Speaker presentations 
• Educational and promotional videos and animation 
• Professional web sites 
• Letters to healthcare professionals 
• Insert appropriate citations in all copy they produce 
• Collaborate with art directors on projects requiring understanding between image and copy 
• Support/defend copy in regulatory meetings 

• Revise copy based on feedback from client’s regulatory boards 
• Educate creative and marketing teams about client's products and the diseases they treat 
• Contribute to new business pitch content, including communicating agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations 
• Stay informed about the medical literature related to client’s brands 
• Maintain detailed knowledge of important competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance) 
• Independently conducts research on the product and/or therapeutic category 
• Generates measurable insights and perspectives on disease-related topics, treatment categories, and healthcare professional attitudes and behaviors 
• Supervises medical writers on his/her accounts 

• Master’s or Doctoral level el (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 
• Read and interpret medical literature 
• Facility with Microsoft Office, Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets), Prism, and other related programs 

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. 

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.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.