VP, Scientific Strategy

fingerpaint • Cedar Knolls, NJ

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About The Position

Fingerpaint Marketing is seeking a VP, Scientific Strategy to translate scientific discoveries into compelling brand strategies, provider education, and patient care. This role focuses on infusing science into brand-building processes for commercial and medical communication strategies. The ideal candidate is a deep and dynamic thinker who can interpret data, generate insights, and guide strategic development. The VP will oversee a therapeutic category and a team, mentor others, conceptualize new business opportunities, and provide support across various businesses.

Requirements

• Relevant degree (PhD preferred)
• Experience with oncology is required.
• Minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing.
• Experience developing medical communications programs preferred.
• Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings—one-on-one, small/large groups, with peers, subordinates, and bosses—both inside and outside the organization.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Adobe.
• Constant curiosity with the passion to explore and create.

Responsibilities

• Partner across the disciplines of strategy to drive brand building, unbranded initiatives, and communication planning.
• Foster authentic and effective relationships with client brand and medical teams, as well as other relevant medical personnel (e.g., key opinion leaders, MSLs, etc).
• Manage and mentor scientific strategists in all aspects of career and personal development.
• Elevate the quality or increase efficiency of existing projects and propose novel ideas for Fingerpaint services or deliverables.
• Partner in annual scope development and review.
• Champion the culture of Fingerpaint and scientific strategy.
• Oversee a distinct book of business and team of medical strategists with the goals of ensuring the highest quality of all deliverables, expanding medical business, and overall organic growth.
• Self-educate on innovation in the industry, therapeutic area, and medicine to conceptualize novel projects, programs, or platforms.
• Manage a team, overseeing workloads, diversity of assignments and experiences, and career development plans.
• Lead new business opportunities (content and attendance).
• Develop a highly collaborative and agile working relationship with clients, providing proactive and reactive strategic consultancy.
• Ability to flex into each brand within the agency to define projects and process, run workshops or advisory boards, or manage difficult projects/conversations.
• Enable collaboration and cross-selling across the offices of Fingerpaint.
• Identify novel resources to elevate the knowledge base of our industry, driving more strategic, informed work across all brands.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree