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Medical Director, Medical Strategy & Scientific Affairs

BGB Group
New York, NY Full Time
POSTED ON 2/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/24/2025

BGB Group

Medical Director (MD)

Our Agency

BGB is a healthcare communications agency that offers a wide range of services, including traditional pharmaceutical advertising, promotional medical education, payer marketing, and consulting services. Known for excellence and professionalism, we're hired as strategic and creative partners by our biopharmaceutical clients to drive category/brand awareness and growth.

Position Overview

The Medical Director is the Medical strategy/content lead on his/her brand(s). He/she must have a proven record of independently executing the responsibilities and successfully demonstrating the competencies outlined below, and must demonstrate the ability to successfully onboard, train, and mentor others in the Associate Medical Director (AMD), Senior Medical Writer (SMW) and/or Medical Writer (MW) roles. Please see required experience below.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a hybrid position requiring onsite collaboration. The role will be based out of our office located in New York City. All candidates must be willing to commute into the office on a regular basis.

Content Development & Execution:

  • Manages the scope of existing work and assumes primary responsibility for overseeing translation and execution of BGB standards, client expectations, and brand strategy
  • Provides strategic guidance to team/brand from kick-off through execution (reviewing for messaging and style)
  • Reviews deliverables and ensures that BGB standards, client expectations, and brand strategy are met; assumes lead role in strategy-heavy projects
  • Assumes accountability for accuracy of own work and work of reports, and works to address accuracy issues internally as they arise
  • Effectively partners with other departments (eg, art, copy, account), as appropriate, to provide out-of-the-box recommendations on how to creatively tell the brand story and reinforce the brand messages
  • Writes and annotates content as appropriate

Planning:

  • Understands the brands therapeutic space and proactively provides recommendations regarding planned projects to internal and external team
  • Functions as Strategic Medical Lead during external project kickoff meetings
  • Demonstrates complete understanding of BGB process and can foresee possible challenges and suggest solutions in the project planning stage
  • Defines steps and range of time to execute content-related tasks, formalizing content development timing and benchmarks

Client Interface:

  • May act as strategic medical brand lead
  • Interprets client expectations and incorporates into project execution plans
  • May act as Medical lead for a range of projects, calls, advisory boards, and onsite meetings
  • Comfortably, clearly, and concisely communicates with clients and KOLs and builds and maintains strong professional relationships
  • Proactively initiates discussion with client and drives internal follow-up regarding organic growth opportunities

Agency Interface and Process:

  • Understands the role of Medical within the agency and works to set appropriate expectations and operating norms within the team
  • Shares best practices and strategic insights with internal team to maximize efficiencies and support team's therapeutic learning/proficiency
  • Leads by example to demonstrate efficiency, teamwork, and superior scientific quality for all deliverables
  • Leads by example to utilize conflict resolution skills to address internal and external conflicts

Salary Range: $120,000 - $160,000

The salary range provided represents what a potential hire may expect to earn in this role at BGB. Actual salary decisions will be influenced by several factors that we use to determine overall fit, including experience (both direct and indirect), education, training, demonstrated qualifications, and organizational need. Salary is only one component of the total rewards package offered at BGB Group.

BGB Group is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any category or class of person protected by law.

Salary : $120,000 - $160,000

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