Job Description
The Associate Medical Director is a medical writer and mentor to copywriters on health care professional brands! You will generate 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.
This is a hybrid role, requiring three days in-office each week. If you are contacted for an interview, your recruiter will discuss specifics with you, inclusive of any necessary reasonable accommodations.
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 produce
- Collaborate with art directors on projects requiring understanding between image and copy
- Support / defend copy in regulatory meetings
- Revise copy based on feedback from client’s regulatory boards
- Educate creative and marketing teams about client's products and the diseases they treat
- Contribute to new business pitch content, including communicating agency’s professional marketing insights at new business presentations
- Stay informed about the medical literature related to client’s brands
- Maintain detailed knowledge of important competitors (strengths, weaknesses, positioning, performance)
- 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 his / her accounts
Qualifications
- Master’s or Doctoral level el (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
- Read and interpret medical literature
- Facility with Microsoft Office, Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets), Prism, and other related programs
30+ days ago