Senior Vice President, Group Director, Science & Medicine

Company description

Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers.  With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network,

Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR000#######), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth| Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health

Overview

The SVP, Science + Medicine is a senior leader responsible for shaping how science informs strategy, creative, and decision-making across the agency. This role goes beyond ensuring medical accuracy—it’s about translating complexity into clarity, connecting data to insight, and making the science relevant so the work can go further.

Working in close partnership with the Chief Medical Officer, the SVP will help scale a high-performing team of scientific thinkers, mentor talent, and develop frameworks that elevate how medical strategy shows up across brands and disciplines. Together, they will continue to evolve the Science + Medicine function as a key driver of both creative excellence and business impact.

The SVP will own a portfolio of client business, leading the science and medical strategy across key brands and ensuring the work is clinically sound, strategically sharp, and built to influence. They will also partners across Strategy, Creative, Engagement, and Account to ensure the science doesn’t just show up—it shows the way forward. They’ll help transform complex data into narratives that resonate with how HCPs think, treat, and decide—and guide the development of work that can stand up to scrutiny and still break through.

They’ll also serve as an internal educator, helping build fluency across teams by making science accessible and actionable. And as a key voice in new business efforts, the SVP will represent the Science + Medicine POV in pitches—bringing credibility, clarity, and strategic depth to the agency’s most important opportunities.

At Digitas Health, science isn’t a checkpoint—it’s a catalyst. And this role is critical to ensuring our ideas ring true, not just read well. If you can move confidently between evidence and insight, medicine and marketing, this is your opportunity to lead from the center of it all.

Responsibilities

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Duties and responsibilities for individuals in this position will vary depending on the skills and aptitudes (besides their professional medical knowledge and experience that they bring to Digitas Health).

Organizational Building

• Shape and evolve the capabilities and structure of the Science + Medicine team in partnership with executive leadership.

• Define hiring priorities and onboarding approaches that build therapeutic depth and strategic range across the department.

  
  

• Develop team members through structured mentorship, performance management, and leadership training.

• Establish best practices and scalable frameworks to elevate the role of science across brands and teams.

  
  

Creative + Strategic Influence

• Act as a core member of brand leadership teams, ensuring the science informs and elevates strategy, messaging, and creative concepts.

  
  

• Partner with Strategy and Creative to shape breakthrough ideas that ring true clinically and resonate with HCPs and patients.

• Help teams translate complex data into clear, compelling, and influential narratives.

  
  

• Direct and collaborate with copywriters to shape medically accurate, strategically aligned content

• Represent the Science + Medicine POV in client pitches and businessdevelopment efforts.

  
  

• Support account teams in expanding scope of work for existing clients

Thought Leadership + Visibility

• Serve as a visible thought leader for the agency on scientific and clinical trends, bringing proactive insights that inform brand strategy and creative opportunities.

• Educate internal teams on disease, treatment, and clinical context to build fluency across disciplines

  
  

• Develop POVs, frameworks, and presentations that help position the agency as a leader in HCP marketing.

• Represent the agency at external events, conferences, and key client engagements as a subject matter expert.

  
  

Cross-functional Leadership

• Collaborate closely with Strategy, Creative, Engagement, and Account teams to build unified brand perspectives and campaign strategies.

  
  

• Be an internal advocate for the integration of science and medicine in every phase of the work—from brief to concept to launch.

Qualifications

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

Minimum of an advanced degree in healthcare (PharmD, PhD, MD, MS, in a healthcare or science field)

• 10+ years of experience in a medical strategy, medical affairs, or scientific role within healthcare communications, pharmaceutical industry, or a related field.

• 3+ years leading and mentoring cross-functional teams; proven experience scaling a team or function preferred.

  
  

• Deep familiarity with clinical trial data, treatment pathways, and competitive landscapes.

• Deep understanding of both clinical science and the principles of healthcare marketing, including how HCPs think, treat, and decide along with regulations, and practices.

  
  

• Strong client-facing experience with comfort presenting at the senior executive level.

• Must be capable of working both independently and in a team environment.

  
  

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact …@publicis.com .

Compensation Range: $176,700 – $263,655 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 05/21/2025.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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