- Location
- Philadelphia, PA
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Healthcare
- Seniority
- VP
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- PhD
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- ApplyToJob
Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
SVP, Medical Strategy
Medical
Reports to: EVP, Medical Strategy
Job SummaryAs SVP, Medical Strategy, you will lead medical strategy across key accounts and portfolios and partner with the EVP, Medical Strategy, to strengthen the discipline. This is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping brand direction, mentoring talent, strengthening client partnerships, and advancing the sophistication of our strategic offering across healthcare categories.
You will serve as a senior medical voice within the organization — guiding cross-functional teams, influencing executive stakeholders, and translating complex science into meaningful strategic direction. Beyond brand stewardship, you will help build the frameworks, standards, and capabilities that ensure our work remains differentiated, insight-driven, and performance-focused.
This role is for a leader who connects science to human behavior, sees around corners, and understands how thoughtful medical strategy can move markets and improve lives.
EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.
SVP, Medical Strategy
Medical
Reports to: EVP, Medical Strategy
Job Summary
You will serve as a senior medical voice within the organization — guiding cross-functional teams, influencing executive stakeholders, and translating complex science into meaningful strategic direction. Beyond brand stewardship, you will help build the frameworks, standards, and capabilities that ensure our work remains differentiated, insight-driven, and performance-focused.
This role is for a leader who connects science to human behavior, sees around corners, and understands how thoughtful medical strategy can move markets and improve lives.
Key Job Responsibilities (Duties may include, but are not limited to all or some of the following)
- Define and drive medical strategy across assigned brands and portfolios, ensuring alignment with client objectives, market dynamics, and long-term growth goals.
- Establish and uphold high standards of scientific rigor, strategic differentiation, and medical integrity across all deliverables.
- Serve as senior strategic lead across key accounts, providing oversight of positioning, messaging architecture, omnichannel strategy, and brand roadmaps.
- Lead and mentor Medical Strategy team members, fostering growth, capability development, and a culture of intellectual curiosity and accountability.
- Collaborate closely with Creative, Account, Analytics, Engagement Strategy, and Operations to ensure medical strategy is integrated seamlessly from early discovery through execution.
- Partner with Strategy and Creative teams to shape briefs, concepts, and communications, ensuring scientific accuracy, clinical relevance, and compelling expression of the science.
- Critically evaluate clinical evidence, mechanisms of action, treatment landscapes, and emerging data to develop scientific platforms, differentiated narratives, and actionable medical strategy.
- Drive insight development through synthesis of market research, advanced analytics, behavioral science, and category intelligence.
- Guide audience identification, persona development, and journey mapping to ensure strategic clarity and human relevance.
- Contribute meaningfully to new business pitches and organic growth initiatives, helping shape compelling narratives that differentiate the agency.
- Cultivate strong client relationships, serving as a trusted strategic advisor to commercial and medical stakeholders.
- Monitor healthcare trends, competitive shifts, and scientific advancements, proactively identifying opportunities and risks for clients.
- Partner with analytics teams to define KPIs and measurement frameworks that connect strategy to measurable performance outcomes.
- Support appropriate scoping, resource alignment, and fiscal accountability across engagements.
- Contribute to thought leadership initiatives, including POV development, conference participation, and agency visibility efforts.
- Model collaborative leadership, adaptability, and a commitment to excellence that elevates the team and the work.
Job Qualifications (Skills/Requirements)
- 10+ years of experience in medical strategy, healthcare strategy, or related scientific leadership roles.
- 5+ years of experience leading and mentoring teams.
- Advanced scientific degree preferred (PhD, MD, PharmD, or equivalent).
- Demonstrated experience shaping brand positioning, messaging strategy, and omnichannel healthcare communications.
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills with experience collaborating across creative, account, analytics, and operations teams.
- Experience leading market research and translating findings into actionable brand strategy.
- Experience contributing to or leading new business initiatives.
- Experience using scientific literature, clinical trial databases, congress publications, and market intelligence resources to inform medical strategy.
- Working knowledge of regulatory and compliance considerations in healthcare communications.
- Exceptional storytelling and communication skills across presentations, briefs, strategic narratives, and client-facing materials.
- Intellectual curiosity and interdisciplinary fluency across complementary fields such as behavioral science, psychology, sociology, or related disciplines.
- A leadership mindset grounded in accountability, flexibility, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence.
EOE/AA/M/D/V/F.
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