Strategic Insights Lead

ABOUT LUCID GROUP

We are a global healthcare communications agency with deep therapeutic expertise that traverses the asset lifecycle, delivering transformative outcomes for healthcare brands for over 20 years.

Our more than 500 highly trained professionals work with speed and agility to craft and execute breakthrough strategies that maximise performance and unlock a brand's full potential.

This position is aligned to multiple divisions across Lucid:

• Lucid Global works with global brand teams at big and mid-tier pharmaceuticals and biotech clients to deliver powerful medical communications solutions across the asset lifecycle.

• US Marketing works with clients across the Life Sciences and Consumer Health divisions to deliver compelling communications and promotional solutions to Healthcare Professionals for in-market assets.

• Lucid Consulting brings depth of expertise in the research, development and commercialisation of solutions across therapeutic areas and modalities by streamlining product development, building operational capabilities, innovating, and supporting execution to create value for patients, clients and shareholders

Lucid Connected Intelligence (LCI) helps life science teams move faster, think sharper, and act with clarity, transforming siloed data and disconnected expertise into the fuel for confident, real-time decision-making. In today’s complex and fast-moving market, LCI is how medical and commercial leaders get ahead and stay aligned.

Built on Lucid’s belief-to-action operating model and powered by fused expertise in science, strategy, behavior and technology, LCI turns signals into foresight and foresight into impact. Whether shaping a brand narrative, accelerating adoption, or optimizing stakeholder engagement, LCI uncovers what matters most and enables you to do something about it.

Job Summary

We are seeking a Strategic Insights Lead to be the day-to-day strategy owner of our Lucid Connected Intelligence work. This role leads problem definition, insight development, and client-ready strategic storytelling using real world healthcare data.

This role will be responsible for turning business questions into clear analytic asks, interpreting results into implications, and translating insights into decision, audiences, messaging direction, and omnichannel pull-through in partnership with Brand Strategy, Execution Strategy, and Media Strategy counterparts across Lucid Group.

Responsibilities

• Translating business and communications challenges into analytical questions, hypotheses and data-driven frameworks

• Own the core “so what” for LCI workstreams, starting from client objectives and translating them into a sharp set of strategic questions and hypotheses

• Design the approach, define what signals matter, determine what “good” looks like, and ensure the work answers the actual business decision, not just the data question

• Partner with data science to produce analyse, then lead interpretation, triangulations, and implication development

• Build client-ready storylines that connect findings to behavior, barriers, opportunities, and recommended actions

• Act as a strategic thought partner to facilitate alignment across stakeholders early, especially when the brief is ambiguous, internally inconsistent, or overly tactical

• Supporting client services teams in planning and scoping robust analytics and insight approaches within programmes and campaigns

• Contributing to the development of new LCI analytics methodologies, tools, ways of working and help evolve LCI’s strategic product by identifying repeatable use cases and improving how the capability is articulated and sold

Qualifications

• 4 to 8 years of experience in strategy, insights, consulting, or healthcare marketing strategy, with demonstrated comfort using data as an input to strategy

• Knowledge of Global and US healthcare context from clinical, systems and patient perspective

• Strong strategic thinking, problem framing, hypothesis development, and synthesis

• Proven experience translating analysis into persuasive, client-ready narratives and recommendations

• Comfort partnering with technical teammates and enough data manipulation fluency to effectively evaluate methodologies

• Digitally literate with an understanding of healthcare communications ecosystems

• The ability to produce exceptional quality written and verbal client deliverables

• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport, establish credibility and trust with clients and colleagues

• Ability to prioritise, manage multiple work streams and operate in a fast-paced environment

Desirable Criteria

• Aptitude for business development activities, including identifying opportunities and contributing to proposal development

• Familiarity with data science or advanced analytics techniques (e.g. statistical analysis, modelling, segmentation, experimentation)

• Working knowledge of data protection practices (GDPR)

WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR US TO BE LUCID?

At Lucid Group, we transform lives. Always. We believe in providing a culture of authenticity where we can all be ourselves, make real connections, and enjoy the work that we do. Together.   

We empower our people to embark on a journey of growth and advancement by offering meaningful learning and development opportunities. 

Central to our ethos is our commitment to cultivating an environment that embraces and respects people of all backgrounds and identities, underpinned by a culture of conscious inclusion and support.   

The Lucid values are not just mere words; they are the culmination of our collective efforts. Co-created by our people for our people, these values serve as our guiding principles, ensuring that every decision we make positively impacts the lives of the clients, patients, healthcare professionals, and colleagues we serve.   

• Compassionately Human: We think about the human impact of our actions 

• Accountable Allies: We are the go-to strategic partners for our clients 

• Invent with Intent: We create meaningful solutions to solve real problems 

• Courageously Curious : We challenge ourselves to think disruptively 

Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, sex, age, pregnancy, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or expression or disability.   

We are dedicated to offering an inclusive and accommodating recruitment process. If you require any accommodations during the interview, please do not hesitate to contact us.