Scientific Director
Publicis Groupe, City of Westminster
Scientific Director
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Publicis Groupe, City of Westminster
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 4 days ago, 19 Dec | Get your application in now to be included in the first week's applications.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
job Ref: 09306dcf591748388d67da1191ba292c
Full Job Description
- Provide effective leadership for medical/scientific content development for a large-sized portion of business, based on revenue and team members
- Motivate a medical copy team, leading performance management, reward and recognition, professional development and training, and creating an inclusive and equitable environment
- Facilitate and encourage cross-team collaboration (scientific, creative, strategic) to ensure a cohesive approach to client projects
- Partner with Client Services and Project Management for resource alignment to optimise team performance and people development; lead recruitment as needed to optimise team performance and capability matrix
- Advocate for the medical copy team both internally and externally
- Construct and communicate strategically aligned scientific narratives
- Provide critical review of medical/scientific content
- Innovate news ways to elevate content curation/delivery
- Support and guide the development of channel- and audience-appropriate medical content
- Lead scientific pitch research and presentation, with emphasis on translating complex scientific information for broader team application, especially strategy and creative
- Provide active counsel and recommendations to clients, including effective navigation of medical review of creative work
- Maintain high-profile visibility within the agency as a content and scientific expert across multiple therapy areas
- Identify opportunities and threats to the team, and evolving business needs, supporting solution development as appropriate, including potential new content and service offerings
- Proactively make recommendations for enhancing programme impact and supporting organic growth
- Lead the development of therapy area and/or brand scientific strategy (in collaboration with other strategists where appropriate)
- Understand and be abreast of modern channel engagement possibilities and how that impacts content development
You are a proven business leader, with strong experience within creative communications agencies. - You understand and own the science but equally know how to collaborate with strategic and creative peers, and enjoy the collaboration and problem solving process.
- You've ideally worked in a digital focused agency or have an interest in how modern marketing techniques are evolving healthcare brands and audiences
- You have shown aptitude at mastering knowledge of therapeutic areas, being the scientific steward of brands and leading scientific discourse.
- You can confidently produce strategically aligned, compelling content and lead a team to deliver the same.
- You have and can develop influential networks and relationships through your skills, both internally and externally.
Digitas Health London is the People-Powered Health agency: We help brands engage with people to deliver ideal health, now. We design transformative experiences that move people further along the path to health at any moment. By putting the power to change health outcomes in the hands of patients, healthcare professionals, carers, and payers, we help health brands create value across today's connected health ecosystem. To do this, we start with a generous, behaviour-driven ideal then work in lean, agile and iterative ways to turn the ideal into action. We are a generous, idealistic, straight-talking collection of creatives, strategists, analysts, social media experts, PMs, and client service leads. We work together to help people-centric health brands deliver new business value through new customer experiences. Whether connected content programmes, mobile apps, digital services, or social communities, we use digital and emerging technologies to help healthcare brands build loyalty, break habits, connect care ecosystems and disrupt traditional markets. As part of Publicis Health, our small-but-mighty team works to bring applied innovation to a range of global, EMEA and UK clients, working in collaboration with other DH offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco and other sister agencies in London, Windsor and around the world. Learn more about DH at www.digitashealth.com ., Digitas Health London are looking for an experienced Scientific Director to join and lead the medical discipline within our fast-growing agency environment. As discipline lead, the role will include inspiring, nurturing and developing a growing team, driving craft excellence and nurturing creative collaboration within our agency team. The role is also heavily connected with the broader scientific community within Publicis Health UK. In this director-level role, you will contribute to the leadership of the agency's scientific and medical capability, including being accountable for scientific knowledge and medical content development on large, high-profile accounts for the business. You will be a team leader and craft specialist, leading scientific story-telling and guiding excellence in scientific/medical content. You will inspire and motivate the team; grow business and client partnerships; optimize scientific and medical capabilities and processes; and proactively develop and advocate for individual members and the wider team, both internally and externally. You will be seen as a strong scientific leader and positively contribute to DH's reputation across our clients and competitors. - WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
- "YOU" DAYS - flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
- HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
- FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
- FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing.
- GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre. Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us! Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with full time employees being office-based three days during the working week. We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process. Please make sure you check out the Publicis Career Page (https://www.publicisgroupeuk.com/careers/) which showcases our Inclusive Benefits and our EAG's (Employee Action Groups).
Digitas Health has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;
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