Overview
The Senior Medical Director serves as a senior scientific and strategic leader, overseeing the medical accuracy, relevance, and quality of work created for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device clients. This role partners closely with clients and cross-functional agency teams to shape healthcare professional marketing strategies, translate complex science into compelling communications, and provide senior-level medical leadership across assigned accounts.
Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provides senior medical and scientific leadership across high-profile, scientifically complex brands and therapeutic areas, helping shape brand strategy and programming.
• Serves as a trusted medical partner to clients, offering strategic counsel and clearly communicating scientific insights, recommendations, and rationale.
• Oversees the scientific accuracy, clinical relevance, and strategic quality of promotional and educational content throughout development and medical-legal review.
• Partners with creative, strategy, account, planning, innovation, and analytics teams to translate complex science into clear, differentiated, and actionable communications.
• Leads the development of medical strategy, including disease-state narratives, scientific platforms, messaging frameworks, and healthcare professional engagement approaches.
• Generates actionable insights on disease states, treatment landscapes, competitors, and healthcare professional attitudes and behaviors to inform brand strategy.
• Maintains deep knowledge of relevant medical literature, treatment guidelines, emerging data, client brands, and key competitors.
• Contributes senior medical expertise to new business opportunities, including pitch strategy, content development, and presentations.
• Provides direction, mentorship, and quality oversight to Medical Directors, Associate Medical Directors, and medical writers across assigned business.
• Helps establish efficient medical processes and consistently raises the scientific and strategic quality of the team's work.
Qualifications
REQUIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
• Doctoral-level degree in a healthcare or scientific discipline, such as MD, DO, PharmD, or PhD; clinical experience beyond graduate training is preferred.
• Significant experience providing medical or scientific leadership within a healthcare advertising agency, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical device organization.
• Demonstrated ability to lead scientifically complex accounts and provide strategic medical guidance to clients and cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of U.S. pharmaceutical marketing regulations and pharmaceutical industry medical-legal review processes.
• Ability to critically evaluate and interpret medical literature, clinical data, treatment guidelines, and competitive information.
• Experience developing medical strategy and translating scientific evidence into clear, actionable marketing communications.
• Strong presentation, collaboration, and client-facing communication skills.
• Proven experience mentoring and developing medical team members while maintaining high standards for scientific quality.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.
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. 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 12/7/2026.
