Requirements
Requires several years of relevant medical strategy, medical communications, healthcare advertising, or life sciences experience, plus an MSc or similar postgraduate degree in a scientific, medical, pharmacy, or related discipline. Candidates should have experience developing scientific and strategic materials, presenting recommendations, understanding pharmaceutical marketing, and leading cross-functional discussions.
Job Description
About Our Medical Strategy Craft
- Our Medical Strategy team, part of our Medical Craft, shapes how scientific insights inform brand and business decisions.
- The team translates complex clinical data into clear strategic direction that resonates with healthcare audiences.
- They collaborate closely with Strategy and Creative to ensure messaging is medically sound and insight-driven.
- Their work helps brands communicate value with clarity, relevance, and credibility.
The Medical Strategist provides strategic medical direction across healthcare brands, client engagements, and new business opportunities. This role translates complex clinical and scientific information into clear brand strategy, competitive positioning, and promotional guidance. The Medical Strategist partners with client services, strategy, creative, and senior medical leaders to shape work that is scientifically rigorous, strategically sound, and relevant to healthcare audiences.
What You’ll Do
- Guide medical strategy across assigned healthcare brands, including scientific narratives, competitive positioning, and promotional content direction.
- Translate clinical data and therapeutic landscape insights into clear recommendations for client teams, creative teams, and strategy partners.
- Develop medical downloads, competitive analyses, POVs, and pitch content that support brand planning and new business proposals.
- Review campaign materials, presentations, and strategic deliverables from a medical, scientific, and brand strategy perspective.
- Build trusted relationships with client medical stakeholders by presenting scientific recommendations clearly and confidently.
Required:
- Several years of relevant medical strategy, medical communications, healthcare advertising, or life sciences experience supporting pharmaceutical or healthcare brands.
- MSc or similar post-graduate degree in a scientific, medical, pharmacy, or related discipline, with evidence of applying clinical knowledge to brand or communications strategy.
- Experience developing scientific narratives, competitive analyses, medical downloads, or strategic recommendations for HCP, patient, or payer audiences.
- Experience presenting medical or scientific recommendations to senior clients, cross-functional agency teams, or internal leadership.
- Strong understanding of pharmaceutical marketing principles, promotional strategy, and how clinical evidence supports brand differentiation.
- Observable experience leading cross-functional discussions, moderating senior stakeholders, or aligning teams around complex scientific content.
- Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
- PhD, MD, PharmD, or equivalent advanced scientific or clinical credential.
- Experience supporting new business pitches, RFP responses, or launch planning for life sciences clients.
- Therapeutic area depth in oncology, immunology, rare disease, specialty care, or another complex category.
- Experience partnering with creative, strategy, client services, medical affairs, or regulatory teams in an agency environment.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.
Education
Skills
About Klick
Klick Health is the world’s largest independent commercialization partner for life sciences companies. Together with Oxford PharmaGenesis, the agency helps life sciences brands achieve their full potential with best-in-class marketing and advertising, media strategy and purchasing, medical affairs, medical publications and medical communications, value and market access services, real world evidence support, as well as technology and analytics consulting from clinical development through Loss of Exclusivity (LOE). Klick’s expertise is rooted in deep medical and scientific understanding and is powered by over 500 post-graduate, in-house medical experts; award-winning data science and AI capabilities; unrivaled decision sciences; and innovative, results-driven creative — all built on a foundation of proprietary technology platforms that have defined Klick since its founding. Established in 1997, Klick Health (including Oxford PharmaGenesis, Klick Katalyst, and btwelve) has offices in Toronto, Cambridge, Cardiff, London, Melbourne, New York, Oxford, Philadelphia, São Paulo, Saratoga Springs, and Singapore. It is part of the Klick Group of companies, which also includes Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures. For more information on joining Klick, go to careers.klick.com.
View company profile →