VP of Scientific Strategy

Our client, an award-winning pharmaceutical advertising agency, is seeking a VP of Scientific Strategy to join their staff on an ongoing contract basis.This is a fully remote opportunity, 40 hours per week, and will be reporting into Eastern Standard Time.Objectives of This Role: Are you hungry to help push the boundaries of what’s possible in medicine? Come join our team in translating the latest scientific discoveries into compelling brand strategies, provider education, and patient care. We focus on infusing science into all aspects of a unified brand-building process to drive commercial and medical communication strategies. The VP, Scientific Strategy, will need to utilize all of their capabilities as a scientist and a person, tapping into both their scientific thinking and creative core. Our ideal partner is a deep and dynamic thinker who can read beyond the data to create focused scientific concepts, push past observations to insights, and help guide our teams forward in strategic development. The VP, Scientific Strategy will have purview over a therapeutic category and a multilevel team while learning to train mentors, conceptualize/introduce novel business opportunities, and seamlessly move across all business to provide direction or support as needed.Duties and Responsibilities:Partner across the disciplines of strategy to drive brand building, unbranded initiatives, and communication planning Foster authentic and effective relationships with client brand and medical teams, as well as other relevant medical personnel (eg, key opinion leaders, MSLs, etc) Manage and mentor scientific strategists in all aspects of career and personal development Elevate the quality or increase efficiency of existing projects and propose novel ideas for our services or deliverables Partner in annual scope development and review Champion the culture of the company and scientific strategy Oversee a distinct book of business and team of medical strategists with the goals of ensuring the highest quality of all deliverables, expanding medical business, and overall organic growth Self-educate on innovation in the industry, therapeutic area, and medicine to conceptualize novel projects, programs, or platform Manage a team, overseeing workloads, diversity of assignments and experiences, and career development planLead new business opportunities (content and attendance)Develop a highly collaborative and agile working relationship with clients, providing proactive and reactive strategic consultancy Ability to flex into each brand within the agency to define projects and process, run workshops or advisory boards, or manage difficult projects/conversations Enable collaboration and cross-selling across the offices of the agencyIdentify novel resources to elevate the knowledge base of our industry, driving more strategic, informed work across all brands Job Requirements:Relevant degree (PhD preferred)Experience with oncology is required.Minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing Experience developing medical communications programs preferred Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings—one-on-one, small/large groups, with peers, subordinates, and bosses—both inside and outside the organization Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Adobe Constant curiosity with the passion to explore and create