Saatchi & Saatchi

Senior Medical Director

Saatchi & Saatchi$106K — $153K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Doctoral degree (MD, DO, PhD, PharmD) in healthcare with clinical experience preferred.
  • Experience in a healthcare agency or in pharmaceutical, biotech, or device industries.
  • Knowledge of US pharmaceutical marketing regulations.
  • Understanding of medical-legal review processes in the industry.
  • Experience in teaching and mentoring healthcare professionals.
  • Ability to read and interpret medical literature and convey insights effectively.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint with reference management capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • Leads complex therapeutic areas to drive brand strategy and programming insights.
  • Educates internal teams about client products and related diseases.
  • Evaluates diverse problems and exercises judgment to reach solutions.
  • Develops medical and scientific strategy recommendations with account leads.
  • Acts as a trusted advisor, defending recommendations in client discussions.
  • Contributes to new business pitches with professional marketing insights.
  • Researches the medical literature related to client brands and categories.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Disability insurance and 401K retirement plan.
  • Parental and family care leave policies.
  • Family forming assistance and educational reimbursement.
  • Flexible time off provisions to support work-life balance.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Senior Medical Director is an emerging leader across multiple accounts with broader brand influence, versatile client-facing consultant across clients and strategy disciplines. Oversees the accuracy and relevance of content created for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and device industry clients, as well as playing a central role in developing healthcare professional marketing strategies and tactics.

Responsibilities

  • Leads high-profile and scientifically complex therapeutic areas that shapes a product and provides insights which help to drive brand strategy and corresponding programming.
  • Educates creative, marketing, planning, innovations, and business strategy & analysis teams about clients products and the diseases they treat.
  • Works on problems of diverse scope requiring evaluation of identifiable factors; exercises judgment in selecting methods to reach solutions.
  • Leads medical/scientific strategy recommendations and partners with account and strategy leads on new program concept development.
  • Serves as a trusted scientific advisor, leading client conversations and defending recommendations.
  • Contributes to new business pitch content and strategies, including presenting agency's professional marketing insights at new business presentations.
  • Stays abreast of the medical literature related to client's brands.
  • Maintains thorough knowledge of key competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance).
  • Proactively and independently conducts research on the product and/or therapeutic category.
  • Generates actionable insights and perspectives on disease-related topics, treatment categories, and healthcare professional attitudes and behaviors.
  • Supervises medical writers on his/her accounts.
  • Mentors junior medical team members.
  • Promotional review accountability: defending claims, annotation and claims substantiation.

Qualifications

  • Doctoral level (MD, DO, PhD, PharmD) degree in healthcare; clinical experience beyond graduate training preferred.
  • 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.
  • Teaching and mentoring experience.
  • Ability to read and interpret the medical literature; ability to translate and disseminate take-aways to teams and clients.
  • Facility with Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.
  • Facility for reference management.
  • Ability to develop and present materials to clients, and presenting data and statistics simply and clearly.

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.

Compensation Range: USD $106,780.00 - USD $153,405.00/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 10/5/2026.

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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