21GRAMS- Associate Medical Strategy Director

Real Chemistry•Chicago, MA

28d•Hybrid

About The Position

Real Chemistry is looking for an Associate Director, Medical Strategy to join our growing team! Our Associate Directors play a pivotal role in guiding the direction of projects and aligning within accounts. This position is perfect for scientific and medical experts who excel under pressure and are ready to guide and inspire teams to elevate medical content and build robust client relationships. Our Associate Directors have the opportunity to specialize in content development, team leadership, and/or strategic thinking. This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

Requirements

Previous experience within medical education or a related field, including roles that involved management of medical writers and/or strategists
Demonstrate successful direct client interactions
A profound understanding of healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry is essential
A high level of academic achievement is expected
Personable, articulate, and capable of nurturing relationships, with a knack for delivering persuasive presentations

Nice To Haves

Adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow.
Proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data.
Highly organized self-starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

Guide teams, contribute through others, and co-create excellent medical content across multiple therapy areas, ensuring that outputs meet/exceed client expectations
Provide strategic guidance and input into account planning
Constructively and collaboratively engage with clients to understand their thinking, build on their ideas, providing alternative perspectives
Act as trusted advisor for clients with support from senior team members
Guide teams to work competently, confidently and efficiently to deliver high-quality work in high-pressure situations
Oversee delegation of work across accounts
Identify opportunities for organic growth understanding client interests and those of their cross-functional stakeholders and work with key strategic contact to leverage opportunity
Lead, shape and execute strategy for accounts in collaboration with medical writing and client service teams, building on Medical Strategist skills
Develop peer-to-peer relationship with key clients to enhance Real Chemistry partnership
Be involved in key aspects of the strategy process, from research and analysis to insight and creative brief development
Identify and build product and portfolio strategies
Confidently facilitate internal cross-company/function meetings and client meetings/ workshops