21GRAMS- Associate Medical Strategy Director

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human‑centred creativity, and AI‑driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact‑obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Our LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues.

Job Summary: Real Chemistry is looking for an Associate Director, Medical Strategy to join our growing team! Our Associate Directors play a pivotal role in guiding the direction of projects and aligning within accounts. This position is perfect for scientific and medical experts who excel under pressure and are ready to guide and inspire teams to elevate medical content and build robust client relationships. Our Associate Directors have the opportunity to specialize in content development, team leadership, and/or strategic thinking. This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—including New York City, Boston, Chicago, Carmel, or San Francisco—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs.

What you’ll do:

• Therapy area and scientific expertise: Guide teams, contribute through others, and co‑create excellent medical content across multiple therapy areas, ensuring that outputs meet or exceed client expectations.
• Strategic thinking: Provide strategic guidance and input into account planning; constructively and collaboratively engage with clients to understand their thinking, build on their ideas, and provide alternative perspectives.
• Client relationships: Act as trusted advisor for clients with support from senior team members.
• Managing and advising: Guide teams to work competently, confidently, and efficiently to deliver high‑quality work in high‑pressure situations; oversee delegation of work across accounts.
• Business development: Identify opportunities for organic growth by understanding client interests and those of their cross‑functional stakeholders, and work with key strategic contacts to leverage opportunity.
• Strategic leadership: Lead, shape, and execute strategy for accounts in collaboration with medical writing and client service teams, building on Medical Strategist skills; develop peer‑to‑peer relationships with key clients to enhance Real Chemistry partnership; be involved in key aspects of the strategy process, from research and analysis to insight and creative brief development.
• Critical thinking: Identify and build product and portfolio strategies; confidently facilitate internal cross‑company/function meetings and client meetings/workshops.

This position is a perfect fit for you if:

• You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow.
• You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data.
• You are a highly organized self‑starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.

What you should have:

• Previous experience within medical education or a related field, including roles that involved management of medical writers and/or strategists.
• Successful direct client interactions.
• A profound understanding of healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry.
• A high level of academic achievement.
• Personability, articulation, and a knack for delivering persuasive presentations.

Pay Range: Pay range: $110,000 – $125,000. The anticipated salary range for this position is listed above. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job‑related, non‑discriminatory factors including but not limited to experience, skills, qualifications, geographic location, and internal parity. In addition to base salary, Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefits package and a variety of programs designed to support employees' well‑being, growth, and success.

Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates.