Saatchi & Saatchi

Associate Medical Director

Saatchi & Saatchi$81K — $116K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's or Doctoral degree in healthcare (MD, DO, PhD, PharmD) with clinical experience preferred
  • Minimum of four years in medical writing within a healthcare agency
  • Experience in pharmaceutical, biotech, or device industries highly preferred
  • Knowledge of US pharmaceutical marketing regulations
  • Familiarity with medical-legal review processes in pharma
  • Experience in mentoring or instructing others
  • Proficient in interpreting medical literature and using relevant software tools.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with copywriters to develop materials for complex therapeutic areas under Medical Director's guidance
  • Create diverse content types including sales aids, advertisements, presentations, and educational materials
  • Ensure all generated copy includes proper citations
  • Work with art directors to fuse copy and visual elements harmoniously
  • Advocate for copy content during regulatory meetings
  • Revise content based on feedback from clients' compliance teams
  • Educate cross-functional teams about clients' products and relevant diseases
  • Assist in content creation for new business pitches when required
  • Stay updated on medical literature relevant to client's brands
  • Maintain competitive analysis knowledge to inform strategy
  • Conduct independent research on therapeutic areas and generate insights
  • Oversee medical writers assigned to specific accounts.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability insurance
  • 401K plan participation
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Family forming assistance
  • Tuition reimbursement for further education
  • Flexible time off to promote work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

The 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 the following: sales aids, advertisements, print and online, speaker presentations, educational and promotional videos, animation, professional websites, and 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 (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 information

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.

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Compensation Range: USD $81,225.00 - USD $116,655.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/7/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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