Senior Scientific Strategist

Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. From our inception, Fingerpaint has been driven by an unstoppable collective spirit of possibility. It’s that curiosity that’s at the heart of everything we do. From our legendary people-first culture to the hundreds of Fingerpainters who define us, we’ve reimagined what it means to be a healthcare and wellness advertising agency. Here, creativity happens naturally—we attract top talent and give them a space to grow and collaborate.

Note: The individual in this role must be located within a commutable distance to our Cedar Knolls, New Jersey office. This person will be expected to attend special meetings and events at the office, in addition to client visits in the Cedar Knolls area, a few times per month

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 senior 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 senior 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 and medical 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:

• Relevant degree (PhD preferred)
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and/or pharmaceutical marketing
• Experience developing medical communications programs preferred
• Is 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