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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/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, providing 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 understanding client interests and those of their cross-functional stakeholders and work with key strategic contact 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 relationship 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

Our Company values – Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an “I” – really speak to you.

You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow. When things change, so do we. We’re always evolving.

You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data.

You are highly organized self-starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.

What you should have

You should bring previous experience within medical education or a related field, including roles that involved management of medical writers and/or strategists

You should be able to demonstrate successful direct client interactions

A profound understanding of healthcare, science, medicine, and the pharmaceutical industry is essential

A high level of academic achievement is expected