Associate Medical Director

Company DescriptionDigitas 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.Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth| Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitashealthOverviewThe Associate Medical Director is a medical writer and mentor to copywriters on health care professional brands! He/she is responsible for generating 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.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 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)

Proactively and 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

Qualifications

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

Ability to read and interpret medical literature

Facility with Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Prism, and other related programs

Additional InformationOur 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.