Much of what you need to know about minds + assembly is captured in the name itself: we think, we create, and (+) we put things together. It’s really that simple—and that shockingly different. Of course, the simplicity of our name belies the depth of what we deliver to our most honored (and often overjoyed) clients. Our work is consistently at a higher caliber than they are used to, simply because we push ourselves to think and build differently. Combine this with an obsessive attention to client service, and you arrive at a place where we stand alone among agencies. Arrogant? No. Confident? Of course, but only because we’ve put together a team of people who are good AF in every way.
Open Position: Associate Medical Director
About Us:
Minds + Assembly is a full-service creative healthcare agency delivering innovative solutions that are scientifically compelling, strategically aligned and data-driven. We work with pharmaceutical clients to build successful brands through the creation of simple, powerful and beautiful campaigns and communications for physicians and patients across a diverse range of therapeutic categories.
Members of our Medical Affairs team are fully integrated within brand teams and provide the scientific backbone for all of our work. We play a central, client-facing role in medical knowledge + data analysis, accuracy + regulatory compliance, clinical insights + scientific strategy, and creative collaboration with our writing and design teams.
Job responsibilities:
- Dive deep to learn assigned therapeutic category inside and out, developing expert knowledge of the brand, market dynamics, competitors, and pipeline
- Provide scientific and clinical insights during brand creation process (positioning, lexicon development, market shaping and branded strategy and creative campaign development, HCP/consumer messaging, data visualization)
- Review projects to ensure scientific accuracy, alignment with brand strategy and compliance with regulatory (FDA/EMA) guidance
- Monitor literature, category events, and clinical trials in assigned therapeutic areas and share findings/implications with internal team and client
- Create and present Medical 101s for assigned therapeutic areas/brands and new business pitches
- Act as agency Medical lead during client Medical, Legal, and Regulatory (MLR) review process, helping team prepare for project reviews and respond to feedback
- Attend virtual and in-person scientific congresses and report on key findings, trends and relevant implications
- Attend advisory boards, webinars, steering committees, and other scientific meetings to gather and summarize key HCP feedback
- Contribute to new business pitches, including identifying and and interacting with HCPs/KOLs, and uncovering scientific and clinical insights to inform medical strategy
Prerequisites:
- Advanced life-sciences degree (MD, PhD, PharmD)
- 5-6 years of experience in pharmacy, research or healthcare agency(medical education or promotional communications/advertising)
At minds + assembly, the engine of our business is commercial invention. We approach every project—actually, every aspect of our work—as an opportunity to dip our toes into the revitalizing stream of the new. The original conception of our agency (which has since been realized) was that of a happy workshop, a place where the mind and hands are free to construct brilliant new things for our clients. Yet, we never forget that we are in fact a business. Everything we do is to further the commercial goals of our clients, whether that is to sell a product or an idea. To achieve this, we continue to add only the best people—those who have the right talent, temperament, and teamwork orientation—to further our collective goals. Then we ask that each person adhere to two simple and equally important principles: uncompromising standards and unconditional support. In other words, we push each other, hard, to produce the best work possible, yet always with the knowledge that we have each other’s backs.