OverviewPosition SummaryThe Vice President, Medical Director is a senior medical and scientific leader responsible for ensuring the accuracy, relevance, and strategic strength of work developed for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device clients. This role serves as a trusted advisor to clients and cross-functional agency teams, helping shape brand and medical strategy, translate complex science into compelling communications, and maintain the highest standards of medical integrity across assigned accounts. The Vice President, Medical Director also provides leadership to the medical team, contributes to organic growth and new business, and helps strengthen the agency's overall medical offering.
ResponsibilitiesDUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES: • Provides senior medical and scientific leadership across assigned brands, accounts, and therapeutic areas.
• Serves as a trusted medical advisor to clients, bringing forward scientific insights and strategic recommendations that strengthen the business.
• Partners with strategy, creative, account, planning, innovation, analytics, and editorial teams to connect scientific evidence with brand objectives and audience needs.
• Guides the development of medical strategy, disease-state narratives, scientific platforms, messaging frameworks, and healthcare professional communications.
• Ensures the scientific accuracy, clinical relevance, medical integrity, and timeliness of work across channels and throughout the development process.
• Provides senior oversight during medical-legal-regulatory review and helps teams navigate feedback while protecting the scientific and strategic intent of the work.
• Directs and mentors Medical Directors, Associate Medical Directors, medical writers, and other medical team members, setting clear expectations for quality and professional growth.
• Educates internal teams and clients on disease states, mechanisms of action, clinical data, treatment landscapes, and competitive developments.
• Leads or supports advisory boards, expert engagements, and other scientific initiatives, including the development of objectives, content, and outputs.
• Contributes medical leadership to new business pitches and supports organic growth by identifying opportunities to expand the agency's value to existing clients.
• Partners with creative and art teams to ensure medical imagery, data visualization, animation, and other scientific representations are accurate and appropriate.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant medical literature, clinical guidelines, emerging evidence, market dynamics, and competitor activity.
• Helps establish medical best practices, efficient processes, and consistent quality standards across the department.
QualificationsSKILLS & EXPERIENCE: Advanced degree in a healthcare or scientific discipline, such as MD, DO, PharmD, DDS, or PhD.
- Substantial medical or scientific leadership experience within a healthcare advertising agency, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or medical device organization.
- Demonstrated success leading scientifically complex brands and providing strategic medical counsel to senior clients and cross-functional teams.
- Strong understanding of U.S. pharmaceutical marketing principles, regulations, and medical-legal-regulatory review processes.
- Ability to critically evaluate and interpret medical literature, clinical trial data, treatment guidelines, and competitive information.
- Experience developing medical strategy and translating complex science into clear, differentiated, and actionable communications.
- Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop medical professionals while building a collaborative, high-performing team.
- Excellent presentation, writing, editorial, and client-facing communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and lead effectively in a collaborative agency environment.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.
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.
Compensation Range: USD $129,485.00 - USD $186,060.00/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.
