Back to jobs
Brand StrategyOmnichannel StrategyCustomer Experience StrategyHealthcare CommunicationsLife Sciences Consulting
Requirements
Requires over 10 years of experience in healthcare communications or pharmaceutical strategy with a proven track record of leading complex regional or global engagements. Candidates must have experience facilitating executive-level workshops and driving strategic contributions to new business pitches.
Job Description
The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health (including Oxford PharmaGenesis, Klick Katalyst, and btwelve), Klick Media, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), and Klick Consulting—is an ecosystem dedicated help life sciences brands achieve their full potential through best-in-class marketing and advertising, media, medical affairs and communications, market access, real-world evidence, and technology and analytics consulting — powered by 500+ in-house medical experts and award-winning data science and AI capabilities. Founded in 1997, we have offices in Toronto, New York, Oxford, London, Cambridge, Cardiff, Melbourne, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, São Paulo, and Singapore. One of the most-awarded health agencies on the planet, Klick is consistently recognised for its people-first culture as a Great Place to Work, Best Workplace for Women, Best Workplace for Inclusion, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and FORTUNE Best Workplace in Advertising. Klick also recently made history as Cannes Lions Healthcare Agency of the Year, Healthcare Network of the Year, and Independent Agency of the Year – Health.
About Our Strategy Craft
Our Strategy Craft defines where brands should play and how they can win. Grounded in research, insight, and behavioural understanding, this craft shapes long-term direction. Strategy teams challenge assumptions and uncover opportunities for growth. Their work guides decision-making across the organisation.
Job Description
The VP, Strategy Director provides senior strategic leadership across healthcare and life sciences engagements, developing integrated brand, omnichannel, customer experience, and communications strategies for regional and global clients. The role partners with senior client stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams across Client Services, Creative, Medical Strategy, Science & Regulatory, and Project Management to turn complex commercial challenges into clear strategic direction and measurable outcomes.
What You’ll Do
Required:
Klick uses an AI-powered tool as part of an automated process to support our hiring process by analysing your experience, skills, and qualifications to help identify alignment with role requirements. Please note that the tool does not make final decisions or automatically disqualify candidates. Hiring decisions are made by our team, with thoughtful human judgment and oversight. We are committed to fair and transparent hiring practices and have implemented safeguards to help mitigate bias and support compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions, accessibility needs, or concerns about the use of this tool, please contact us.
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 colour, 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.
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.
About Our Strategy Craft
Our Strategy Craft defines where brands should play and how they can win. Grounded in research, insight, and behavioural understanding, this craft shapes long-term direction. Strategy teams challenge assumptions and uncover opportunities for growth. Their work guides decision-making across the organisation.
Job Description
The VP, Strategy Director provides senior strategic leadership across healthcare and life sciences engagements, developing integrated brand, omnichannel, customer experience, and communications strategies for regional and global clients. The role partners with senior client stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams across Client Services, Creative, Medical Strategy, Science & Regulatory, and Project Management to turn complex commercial challenges into clear strategic direction and measurable outcomes.
What You’ll Do
- Lead integrated brand, omnichannel, customer experience, and communications strategy across HCP and consumer audiences, translating market, customer, and commercial insights into actionable strategic plans.
- Facilitate executive workshops, brand planning sessions, and senior client presentations, providing recommendations that shape brand, portfolio, customer experience, and commercial decisions.
- Partner with Client Services, Creative, Medical Strategy, Science & Regulatory, and Project Management to connect commercial objectives, scientific context, customer insights, and creative execution across integrated engagements.
- Drive strategic contributions to new business pitches, proposals, brand planning initiatives, and organic growth opportunities, partnering with senior client and Klick leadership to strengthen and expand relationships.
- Apply data, customer insights, behavioral science, emerging trends, and AI-enabled approaches to strategic planning, helping teams identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, and improve decision-making.
Required:
- 10+ years of experience in healthcare communications, pharmaceutical strategy, life sciences consulting, or integrated agency strategy, including ownership of complex regional or global client engagements.
- Demonstrated experience developing integrated brand, omnichannel, commercialisation, customer experience, or communications strategies for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare brands, with examples of strategies taken through planning into execution.
- Experience leading executive-level workshops, strategic planning sessions, and presentations for senior client stakeholders, with evidence of recommendations influencing brand, portfolio, or commercial decisions.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary strategy across Client Services, Creative, Medical Strategy, Science & Regulatory, and Project Management, with accountability for delivering integrated strategic recommendations.
- Experience contributing strategic leadership to healthcare or life sciences new business pitches, proposals, and client growth initiatives, with examples of supporting new or expanded client engagements.
- Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
- Experience developing strategy across therapeutic areas such as oncology, immunology, rare disease, specialty care, vaccines, or consumer health.
- Experience supporting regional or global healthcare brands across EMEA, North America, or APAC, including adapting strategy to different market and customer contexts.
- Experience applying behavioural science, customer insights, ecosystem strategy, data, or innovation methodologies to healthcare commercial challenges.
- Experience partnering with executive leadership teams to shape longer-term brand, portfolio, or commercial strategy within healthcare or life sciences organisations.
Klick uses an AI-powered tool as part of an automated process to support our hiring process by analysing your experience, skills, and qualifications to help identify alignment with role requirements. Please note that the tool does not make final decisions or automatically disqualify candidates. Hiring decisions are made by our team, with thoughtful human judgment and oversight. We are committed to fair and transparent hiring practices and have implemented safeguards to help mitigate bias and support compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions, accessibility needs, or concerns about the use of this tool, please contact us.
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 colour, 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.
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.
Skills
Brand StrategyOmnichannel StrategyCustomer Experience StrategyHealthcare CommunicationsLife Sciences ConsultingExecutive Workshop FacilitationStrategic PlanningNew Business PitchingBehavioral ScienceAI-Enabled Strategic PlanningMarket InsightsCommercial StrategyStakeholder ManagementCross-functional LeadershipPortfolio StrategyPharmaceutical Marketing
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 →