VP, Stakeholder Strategy

Klick • Philadelphia, PA

11h • Hybrid

About The Position

Klick Health is building a next-generation Strategic Stakeholder Intelligence and Engagement practice for life sciences clients. This VP role will lead intelligence-led influence strategy, helping medical affairs and commercial teams understand who shapes scientific, clinical, and market momentum. The role translates stakeholder intelligence, competitive landscape insights, scientific share-of-voice analysis, ecosystem gaps, and engagement measurement into actionable strategies across the product lifecycle.

Requirements

• 12+ years of life sciences experience across at least two of pharma/biotech, health technology or data platforms, consulting/advisory, or agency/communications.
• Direct experience leading stakeholder engagement, medical affairs strategy, KOL strategy, or influence strategy programs for pharma or biotech clients.
• Experience translating stakeholder intelligence, scientific landscape analysis, share-of-voice data, competitive benchmarks, or ecosystem maps into client-ready strategic recommendations.
• Working knowledge of medical and commercial life sciences teams, including how engagement strategies operate within compliance boundaries.
• Multi-therapeutic-area experience, with observable work in oncology, immunology, rare disease, neurology, or specialty therapeutics preferred.
• Experience advising senior clients or executives on stakeholder maturity, engagement roadmaps, strategic priorities, or transformation plans.

Nice To Haves

• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• Experience with stakeholder analytics platforms such as Veeva, Monocl, H1, Definitive Healthcare, or similar tools.
• Global or international life sciences experience beyond the U.S. market.
• Experience with digital stakeholder engagement, including DOLs, HCP digital behavior, social media for medical affairs, or virtual engagement models.
• Experience with patient advocacy, professional society, policy stakeholders, or non-traditional stakeholder ecosystems.
• Track record building or scaling a team, practice, product, methodology, or thought leadership platform.

Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder intelligence and engagement programs for pharma and biotech clients across Phase II through lifecycle management.
• Translate trajectory indices, competitive benchmarks, share-of-voice analysis, gap assessments, risers’ radar, and ecosystem maps into engagement strategies and prioritization frameworks.
• Design advisory boards, steering groups, coalition strategies, congress plans, digital opinion leader programs, and relationship roadmaps tied to measurable outcomes.
• Build closed-loop engagement models that capture outcomes, improve future recommendations, refine personas, and inform content priorities.
• Partner with medical strategy, scientific communications, data science, creative, market access, and client leadership teams to shape the practice and support competitive pitches.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed