Scientific Strategist

Intro:

Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. Independent by design and built on a foundation of empathy, Fingerpaint celebrates what you bring as both a professional and an individual. With talent across the United States and Europe launching more than 200 brands, we are committed to creating and executing meaningful experiences. Here, creativity happens naturally—we attract top talent and give them a space to grow and collaborate.

Objectives of This Role:

Are you hungry to help push the boundaries of what’s possible in medicine? Come join our team in translating the latest scientific discoveries into compelling brand strategies, provider education, and patient care. At Fingerpaint, we focus on infusing science into all aspects of a unified brand-building process to drive commercial and medical communication strategies. The scientific strategist will need to utilize all of their capabilities as a scientist and a person, tapping into both their scientific thinking and creative core. Our ideal partner is a deep and dynamic thinker who can read beyond the data to create focused scientific concepts, push past observations to insights, and help guide our teams forward in strategic development. The scientific strategist is growing into the role of the day-to-day scientific partner on a brand. Key learning objectives include content creation, client participation, and the parameters for defining a project.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Partner across the disciplines of strategy to drive brand building, unbranded initiatives, and communication planning
• Develop custom application of data to all projects based on in-depth customer understanding gathered from market research, advisory boards, congress attendance, and desk research
• Interrogate scientific literature deeply and broadly with the ability to “follow the trail,” prioritizing key areas of exploration and identifying barriers and opportunities
• Analyze, interpret, and distill scientific and market research/ad boards to develop brand-relevant medical insights, market landscape traits, brand barriers, and opportunities
• Foster authentic and effective relationships with client brand, medical, and regulatory teams, as well as other relevant medical personnel (eg, key opinion leaders, MSLs, etc)
• Create clinical and scientific content across commercial and medical deliverables

Job Requirements:

• Advanced degree (PhD preferred)
• 0 to 2 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing, preferably in developing promotional medical content
• Effective in a variety of formal presentation settings—one-on-one, small/large groups, with peers, subordinates, and bosses—both inside and outside the organization
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Adobe
• Constant curiosity with the passion to explore and create