VP Medical Director

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of Ogilvy’s capabilities and global talent—Ogilvy Health brings forth world-class creative solutions for its clients.

Over the past year alone, the Ogilvy network has been recognized with the following:

• Global Agency Network of the Year (Ad Age)
• Global Agency of the Year (Adweek)
• One of the “Best Places to Work” for LGBTQ equality (Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index)
• Most Effective Agency Network (Effie Worldwide)
• Agency Network of the Year (Clio Awards)
• Network of the Year (One Show)
• Global Network of the Year (LIA Awards)
• Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader
• Most Awarded Agency (Influencer Marketing Awards)
• …and Ogilvy was the first agency network to secure the top rankings on both WARC’s Creative 100 and Effective 100 in consecutive years

For more information on us, visit OgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Threads.

About the Role  

Candidate will provide scientific and clinical leadership in the development of all types of scientific materials, including peer-reviewed scientific communications, slide decks, and key educator materials.

 What You’ll Do 

• Develop high-quality scientific and well-referenced educational materials, including promotional educational content, as well as abstracts, posters, slide decks, brief communications, and other standard communication formats
• Lead a medical team while being flexible in a dynamic service-oriented environment
• Interact with client and experts in all aspects of the business with a clear understanding of the roles and responsibilities of client and experts
• Self-manage to adhere to agreed T&E schedules, budgets, and to alert team to potential deviations and overages
• Build working relationships with key client medical personnel
• Adhere to all processes and procedures for development and production of programs

What You’ll Need  

• Doctoral level degree in biomedical sciences (PhD, MD, or PharmD)
• Launch experience is preferred
• 5 years advertising/healthcare communications agency experience is require
• Track record of working on promotional business deeply engaged with the science
• Excellent strategic insights; ability to partner closely with and/or fill in for Strategic Planning
• Good and vocal presence for client liaison and presentations
• Comfort working with account and creative in their discipline, ie, not advising from the outside but getting directly involved
• Line management history supervising junior staff is desirable
• Client side experience is of interest, but not necessary
• Familiarity with PowerPoint, Excel, and RefMan
• Excellent verbal, writing, presentation, and editing skills
• Excellent interviewing skills (for expert interviews, author research, advisory boards)
• Working knowledge of clinical or preclinical research principles, regulatory affairs, and biostatistics
• Knowledge of clinical trial study design, health outcomes research, pharmacoeconomics and epidemiology
• Ability to develop table, figures, etc, and review for grammar, format, and consistency
• Ability to translate complex data into compelling messages and concepts
• Familiarity with AMA style
• Great attention to detail
• Self-starter with little need for constant direction
• Ability to deliver quick turnaround on a variety of tasks
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How We’ll Support You 

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.  

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At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression. 

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality. Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve.  This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.