Associate medical director

Company Description

Digitas 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.

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Overview

The Associate Medical Director is a medical writer and mentor to copywriters on health care professional brands! They are 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 their 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.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

Compensation Range: $79,990 - $125,925 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 12/8/2025.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.