Senior Vice President, Medical Strategy - Ogilvy Health

About Ogilvy Health 

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 

We are looking for a creatively driven integrated Medical Strategy professional to work across a portfolio of well-known healthcare brands to inspire creatives to drive transformational work. This is a fantastic opportunity to partner with clients known for their commitment to embrace innovative, purpose-driven, and inclusive work.  This includes the earliest research stage through creative development, communication planning, and campaign evaluation. At the core of this role is the ability to glean and share human insights, a voracious curiosity, a collaborative nature, and the ability to inspire strong, impactful communications. 

In this role, you will be a vital leader, shaping and executing innovative HCP strategies across multiple channels. Your deep understanding of the pharmaceutical industry, therapeutic areas, and HCP engagement will be crucial in crafting compelling narratives that resonate with target audiences and drive brand growth. 

What You’ll Do 

• Serve as the medical strategy lead for both investigational and approved assets, partnering with client commercial and medical teams to shape scientific and strategic direction.
• Lead the generation of medical insights by analyzing data from medical literature, market research, cultural trends, and qualitative interviews, and collaborate with creative and account teams to identify opportunities and inform brand strategy.
• Ensure that all deliverables align with medical and commercial goals for consistent, accurate messaging.
• Lead medical strategy for new business opportunities as part of an integrated strategy offering.
• Work closely with Brand Strategists to develop compelling creative briefs that drive impactful campaigns.
• Collaborate on workshop content to ensure strategic alignment with client goals, and work with creative teams to execute and follow up on outcomes.
• Support the development of patient and healthcare provider journeys through research, identifying key medical needs and understanding the functional and emotional experiences for patients and providers.
• Mentor junior strategists in the creation of Medical Strategy deliverables, eg, research stimuli, Target Product Profiles, strategic insights, etc.

What You’ll Need  

• Doctoral level degree in biomedical sciences (PhD or MD)
• 7+ years advertising/healthcare communications agency experience is required
• Track record of working within a promotional business team deeply engaged with the science
• Good and vocal presence for client liaison and presentations
• Comfort working within an integrated strategy environment, ie, not advising partner strategists from the outside but getting directly involved in guiding the overall strategy deliverable
• Working knowledge of clinical or preclinical research principles, regulatory affairs, and biostatistics
• Line management history supervising junior staff is desirable
• Experience using Excel, Word, PowerPoint

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.