Executive Scientific Director

Does SCIENCE make your heart sing? Are you passionate about sharing your scientific expertise to transform patient lives? Are you a mentor and coach? Do you want to be part of an industry-leading healthcare communications agency, supported to further develop your own scientific expertise? Our brilliant scientific and client service teams use scientific knowledge and strategic insight to forge true partnerships with our valued clients, and together we transform lives. A rare opportunity has arisen at Lucid Group for a full-time, UK-based Executive Scientific Director to direct the scientific relationship with global clients.

About Lucid Group: We are a global healthcare communications agency with deep therapeutic expertise that traverses the asset lifecycle, delivering transformative outcomes for healthcare brands for over 20 years. Our more than 500 highly trained professionals work with speed and agility to craft and execute breakthrough strategies that maximise performance and unlock a brand's full potential.

Our divisions include:

• Lucid Global: Works with global brand teams at big and mid-tier pharmaceuticals and biotech clients to deliver powerful medical communications solutions across the asset lifecycle.
• Lucid Consulting: Brings depth of expertise in the research, development and commercialisation of solutions across therapeutic areas and modalities by streamlining product development, building operational capabilities, innovating, and supporting execution to create value for patients, clients and shareholders.
• US Marketing: Works with clients across the Rx, Medical Device, OTC and Consumer Device categories to deliver compelling communications and promotional solutions to Healthcare Professionals for in-market assets.

About The Role: The Executive Scientific Director is a core member of the Medical team. As Executive Scientific Director, you will play a pivotal role in crafting clinical and commercial insights and sharing knowledge as part of the client strategic plan process. The Executive Scientific Director leads team mentorship to drive scientific strategic thinking and excellence. You will also provide insights to inform the Lucid Group strategic plan, including capability building and acquisitions.

An Executive Scientific Director at Lucid is responsible for:

• Directing the scientific strategy across a portfolio of client accounts (£4M).
• Building client relationships by providing strategic medical insight and partnering with Client Services to win new business outside of existing organic growth.
• Establishing high level scientific and strategic partnerships with clients and experts, and leading understanding in the team.
• Partnering closely with clients, acting as a coach and sounding board supporting their scientific strategy.
• Demonstrating expert level understanding of client scientific and commercial strategy while being abreast of latest medical/scientific advances.
• Partnering with Scientific Director to ensure high levels of scientific and strategic excellence across programmes of work.
• Partnering with Client Services to generate new business growth, and leading development of scientific proposals.
• Building effective internal partnerships with other capabilities to successfully deliver the portfolio plan on plan and to budget.

What We’re Looking For: Successful candidates will have:

• Proven leadership skills and ability to manage large teams, including involvement in recruitment, resourcing, line management and team development.
• A willingness to constructively challenge colleagues, other agencies and clients alike.
• Comfortable advising and collaborating with other extended team members.
• Knowledge of financial management and budgets for projects.
• Senior scientific writing experience.
• A proven track record in scientific content generation within an omnichannel environment.

If you look at this list and feel you don’t meet every single requirement, we still want to hear from you! We encourage you to apply, have a discussion with us about the role or others that we may have at Lucid Group either now or in the future, together we can build more inclusive workplaces.

What You’ll Be Working On:

• Scientific strategic leadership.
• Client partnering.
• Relationship building.
• Coaching & mentoring to drive scientific strategic thinking and excellence.
• Crafting insights and sharing knowledge.

Benefits Of Working With Us: Our culture is fundamental to the delivery of transformation. Harnessing the talent and ambitions of those we work with empowers us to deliver our magic. On top of this, our benefits include:

• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Contributory pension with Lucid contribution up to 5% of basic salary (enrolment after 3 months of employment).
• Cycle to work scheme.
• 25 working days holiday, 1 Celebration Day of your choice, 3 Christmas closure days plus 8 Bank Holidays per annum (pro-rata for part-time).
• Flexible holiday buy and sell scheme.
• Family friendly policies.
• Private family health and dental cover, including Employee Assistance Programme and a comprehensive employee rewards scheme.
• 4x basic salary life assurance cover.
• Medicash Healthcare Cash Plan (Level 1 company cover).
• Season Ticket Loans.
• Regular incentive schemes aligned to individual and team performance.

What Does It Mean To Be Lucid? At Lucid Group, we transform lives. Always. We believe in providing a culture of authenticity, where we can all be ourselves, make real connections, and enjoy the work that we do. Together. We empower our people to embark on a journey of growth and advancement by offering meaningful learning and development opportunities. Central to our ethos is our commitment to cultivating an environment that embraces and respects people of all backgrounds and identities, underpinned by a culture of conscious inclusion and support.

The Lucid values are not just words; they are the culmination of our collective efforts. Co-created by our people for our people, these values serve as our guiding principles, ensuring that every decision we make positively impacts the lives of the clients, patients, healthcare professionals, and colleagues we serve.

• Compassionately Human: We think about the human impact of our actions.
• Accountable Allies: We are the go-to strategic partners for our clients.
• Invent with Intent: We create meaningful solutions to solve real problems.
• Courageously Curious: We challenge ourselves to think disruptively.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds and identities. We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment experience to everyone. This commitment to inclusion is explicitly inclusive of race, colour, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or disability.

As part of our commitment to recruiting and supporting colleagues with disabilities, Lucid Group are a committed member of the UK Government’s Disability Scheme. We support people with disabilities to provide us with access to a wider talent pool and enable us to be a force for good in the world by creating fair and equitable access to employment opportunities.

Aligned to this scheme, we commit to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible by:

• Offering a guaranteed interview to candidates with disabilities who meet the essential criteria for the role.
• Anticipate and provide reasonable adjustments.
• Support any existing employee who acquires a disability or long-term health condition.

If you wish to apply under this scheme please indicate so when asked on our DEI page which will appear as part of our job application process.

Lucid was started with a core ideology rooted in a legacy of innovation and dedication. For the past 20 years we have successfully transformed healthcare communications for the better. From our ambitious agency beginnings, we have grown organically and through strategically aligned acquisition. We are currently based in 4 global locations, and our 500 worldwide colleagues are the trusted partners for hundreds of top brands and client teams, big and small.