Strategic Director

About Us

Established in 2005, Bioscript Group is formed from multiple, specialist businesses to support our global pharmaceutical clients; we draw on our multidisciplinary expertise to help navigate critical decisions at key points in the product lifecycle.

Our scientific and strategic expertise help our clients make better decisions. We provide medical communication services, market access consulting and regulatory writing support with deep domain expertise to effectively navigate complex disease areas.

The Opportunity

The Bioscript Group is actively expanding our strategic and creative services across the communications spectrum.

We work in strategic partnership with some of world's largest pharmaceutical companies, as well as innovative biotechs to:

• Build the strongest scientific evidence bases
• Translate into clinically meaningful omnichannel communications programmes
• Develop creative educational pre-launch campaigns and
• Activate creative, commercial campaigns that ensure brand success

We are able to harness data insights, scientific expertise, RWE and behavioural science principles from across the group to deliver campaigns with impact. We want to expand and solidify this offering, across the pre-launch and product launch space,

This is a pivotal role within our business and the successful candidate will be able to partner with our scientific, creative, regulatory, market access and data insights teams, leading teams to create impactful campaigns for our clients, while investing in the training and support of our existing teams to develop their strategic fluency and capabilities.

They will be able to confidently partner with Market Access, Medical, and Marketing client teams to identify opportunities, create compelling campaigns, and lead the delivery of integrated programmes.

This role is a great opportunity to provide strategic input across end-to-end campaigns, with the ability to contribute, shape and lead the future direction of a growing agency

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborating with our client facing leadership to identify growth opportunities in strategic services
• Partnering with and leading client facing strategic planning discussions, including the facilitation of workshops
• Unifying the strategic approaches of the Medical Communications division (traditional med comms focus) and Enzyme Communications (creative and commercial focus)
• Partnering with the internal leadership teams to ensure strategic alignment across pre-, launch and post-launch communications
• Enhancing our 'off the shelf' offerings
• Contributing to business development activities to ensure our proposals and pitches have a common strategic theme, that supports creative pre launch, and product launch campaigns/activities
• Supporting our internal teams to build strategic fluency and capabilities
• Staying abreast of the latest thinking in pharmaceutical strategic consultancy
• Collaborating closely with our creative teams to support the development of brand and campaign work within the context of strategic clarity

About You

• You will be a well-established expert in the field of commercial and strategic medical communications
• You will have at least 5 years of demonstrable experience in a leadership role
• You will be a strategic thinker, capable of leading internal and client teams through strategic frameworks
• You will have strong expertise in commercial projects, and will have been pivotal in the international launch of multiple prescription medicines
• You will be hard working, self-motivated, ambitious, and capable of managing your own time

Please note, this role may require domestic and international travel.

Our people are at the heart of our business

We are focused not just on delivering the exceptional for our clients, but for our teams too. Understanding everyone is different and we believe in treating everyone as an individual with opportunities to develop your skills and career around our disciplines.

Our Benefits

• Salary which aligns with your experience and skillset
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + winter shutdown + holiday purchase scheme
• Enhanced sick and compassionate leave
• Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption leave
• Birthday charity donation to a charity of your choice
• Bonus Day off to be spent giving back to the community
• Life Insurance and Critical Illness cover
• Private Medical (Vitality for UK based colleagues)
• Health cash plan or wellbeing allowance
• International Employee Assistance Program

We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. We encourage applications from all individuals who meet the minimum requirements of the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, please contact us via or by calling .