Medical Strategist in London

The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health, Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences, Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realising the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do.

Our Medical Strategy team, part of our Medical Craft, shapes how scientific insights inform brand and business decisions. The team translates complex clinical data into clear strategic direction that resonates with healthcare audiences. They collaborate closely with Strategy and Creative to ensure messaging is medically sound and insight-driven. Their work helps brands communicate value with clarity, relevance, and credibility.

The Medical Strategist provides strategic medical direction across healthcare brands, client engagements, and new business opportunities. This role translates complex clinical and scientific information into clear brand strategy, competitive positioning, and promotional guidance. The Medical Strategist partners with client services, strategy, creative, and senior medical leaders to shape work that is scientifically rigorous, strategically sound, and relevant to healthcare audiences.

What You’ll Do

• Guide medical strategy across assigned healthcare brands, including scientific narratives, competitive positioning, and promotional content direction.
• Translate clinical data and therapeutic landscape insights into clear recommendations for client teams, creative teams, and strategy partners.
• Develop medical downloads, competitive analyses, POVs, and pitch content that support brand planning and new business proposals.
• Review campaign materials, presentations, and strategic deliverables from a medical, scientific, and brand strategy perspective.
• Build trusted relationships with client medical stakeholders by presenting scientific recommendations clearly and confidently.

Qualifications

Required:

• Several years of relevant medical strategy, medical communications, healthcare advertising, or life sciences experience supporting pharmaceutical or healthcare brands.
• MSc or similar post-graduate degree in a scientific, medical, pharmacy, or related discipline, with evidence of applying clinical knowledge to brand or communications strategy.
• Experience developing scientific narratives, competitive analyses, medical downloads, or strategic recommendations for HCP, patient, or payer audiences.
• Experience presenting medical or scientific recommendations to senior clients, cross-functional agency teams, or internal leadership.
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical marketing principles, promotional strategy, and how clinical evidence supports brand differentiation.
• Observable experience leading cross-functional discussions, moderating senior stakeholders, or aligning teams around complex scientific content.

Desired:

• Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
• PhD, MD, PharmD, or equivalent advanced scientific or clinical credential.
• Experience supporting new business pitches, RFP responses, or launch planning for life sciences clients.
• Therapeutic area depth in oncology, immunology, rare disease, specialty care, or another complex category.
• Experience partnering with creative, strategy, client services, medical affairs, or regulatory teams in an agency environment.

Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at [email protected] and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.