Full-Time
Scientific Director
Omnicom Health
1,001-5,000 employees
Multi-agency healthcare communications network delivering insights
No salary listed
London, UK
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- Educated to degree level in a relevant science subject or 6+ years’ experience writing in a medical communications agency or similar environment
- Experience in independently writing across a range of medical communications media
- Previous line management experience
- Proficient in using Microsoft Office programmes (e.g. PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)
- Have an excellent command of the English language in both written and verbal communications
- Support the senior leaders, taking the lead on multi-writer projects, assisting with resourcing and scientific communications review
- Demonstrate a high degree of scientific and commercial knowledge and insights across all activities, helping guide others to develop this skill
- Oversee content on a wide range of complex projects across multiple teams and therapy areas
- Demonstrate a high degree of proficiency in review of scientific content, helping to guide others to develop this skill
- Consistently produce client-ready deliverables across a wide range of projects
- Demonstrate full compliance with internal processes and lead adherence to best practices across teams, setting the example for junior team members to follow
- Provide feedback on scientific components of budget development
- Identify and communicate important updates and any medical/regulatory milestones to the team. Link this with any potential new business opportunities where applicable
- Enter time and submit expenses by the deadlines set, using appropriate job codes
- Act as scientific lead on assigned accounts, providing strategic direction and scientific leadership
- Demonstrate a high degree of scientific knowledge and commercial insight across all activities
- Partner with client services teams in strategic planning activities and account/issues management
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of a range of therapeutic and scientific concepts, and the ability to communicate these to colleagues, clients and external experts, knowing how and when to adapt language and content
- Demonstrate leadership to deliver the highest possible standards in scientific excellence throughout the entire project process
- Able to keep an effective overview of the ‘bigger picture’, whilst not getting lost in the detail for the account and agency
- Participate in business development initiatives with existing and potential clients, as well as collaborating with the business development team in order to develop proposals and pitches
- Work collaboratively across departments to cross-sell services, demonstrating an excellent understanding of the client’s business strategy/implications
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of business offerings, identifying opportunities for account growth and cross-selling
- Establish, maintain and lead scientific relationships/communications with clients, medical experts and third parties, supporting junior team members to ensure they develop this skill
- Lead collaborative work between Omnicom Health Med Comms and client teams/medical experts to moderate/facilitate activities
- Share in-depth knowledge of pharmaceutical industry standards across multiple teams and therapy areas, keeping up to date on latest industry developments
- Utilising previous experience, guide the decision-making process and provide additional insight into writing styles, content inclusion, and data interpretation
- Oversee the work of and provide clear direction to junior scientific service colleagues, delegating responsibilities and tasks where appropriate to provide experience, growth and knowledge transfer
- Provide clear, constructive and actionable feedback to junior staff on a regular basis, and to peers when required
- Help guide junior team members in their own strategic development by clearly explaining how to incorporate strategic concepts into projects
- Provide effective line management, and supervise and support your team to help them achieve their objectives
- Partner with HR to identify and proactively address any performance management issues
- Take responsibility for the account team’s understanding of the therapy areas they work on
- Share your knowledge and experience by confidently developing and delivering group presentations, or one-to-one/small group coaching sessions where appropriate
- Ask team members (across all levels) for feedback, and proactively implement learnings
- Own responsibility for your personal development, regularly looking for other ways to learn and grow professionally by maximising exposure to new opportunities, making the most of training and requesting training as required
- Undertake tasks outside of the specifics of the job description where business reasons require it
- Previous experience in a medical communications agency or industry would be advantageous
- A keen interest in working and developing scientific expertise across a range of therapy areas
- Previous business development experience – including taking part in live pitches
- Ability to travel
Omnicom Health is a global network of healthcare communications agencies that work together to design and run coordinated marketing and communication programs for the health sector. It unites specialists across the entire health journey—discovery, access, awareness, and action—so clients can reach patients, providers, and payers through data-driven insights, technology, and partnerships. The way it works is by aligning multiple agencies to share expertise, use advanced analytics, and apply digital, medical, and communications capabilities to create faster, smarter campaigns. What sets it apart is its size and breadth: as the world’s largest multi-specialty healthcare communications network, it combines diverse strengths from its agencies and emphasizes collaboration to deliver integrated solutions quickly. The goal is to shape a healthier, more connected world by driving better health outcomes and faster progress in how health information is communicated and adopted.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
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Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2016
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- DDB Health hit $100 million revenue in 2024 with double-digit growth.
- Purpose Group's agencies grew to $74 million and $28 million revenues in 2024.
- Dana Maiman appointed CEO, overseeing HCP, consumer, and patient divisions post-merger.
What critics are saying
- 4,000 layoffs trigger talent exodus from Remedy Edge to Publicis Health.
- Ongoing consolidations erode Remedy Edge's HCP expertise, enabling client poaching.
- DDB brand retirement diminishes Remedy Edge's market recognition and loyalty.
What makes Omnicom Health unique
- Remedy Edge merges DDB Health's HCP expertise with Purpose Group's patient centricity.
- Powered by Omni platform, Remedy Edge delivers data-driven health communications.
- Led by Jennie Fischette since November 2021, combining creative and strategic insights.
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Omnicom Health merges DDB Health, The Purpose Group to create Remedy Edge. Remedy Edge will be led by Jennie Fischette, who has served as CEO of DDB Health since November 2021. NEW YORK: Omnicom Health has merged DDB Health and The Purpose Group to create Remedy Edge. The holding company told MM+M this week that it is combining DDB Health's HCP marketing expertise with The Purpose Group's "award-winning patient centricity and knowledge" to create a full-service agency offering. Remedy Edge will be led by Jennie Fischette, who has served as CEO of DDB Health since November 2021. Prior to that, she served as president of the Omnicom subsidiary for five-and-a-half years. Fischette will lead Remedy Edge in partnership with Michael Schreiber, who has served as managing partner and chief creative officer of DDB Health since its founding in June 2016. Omnicom Health Group launched DDB Health in mid-2016 after merging agencies AgencyRx, Flashpoint, DDB Health Germany, DDB Health Paris and Synergy. Now, Omnicom is merging it with The Purpose Group as part of the latest internal organizational restructuring following the closure of its acquisition of IPG this month. The newly formed entity will be powered by Omni, the holding company's advanced intelligence platform. "What excites me most about Remedy Edge is the chance to empower our incredible teams to do their best work in a culture built on trust and collaboration," Fischette said in a statement. "As we combine the talent, creativity and strategic insight of Purpose Group and DDB Health, we're not just evolving an agency; we're setting a new standard for how health communication can truly make a difference." Fischette's tenure atop DDB Health has been defined by continued growth, both in terms of client roster and topline performance. Following back-to-back years of double-digit growth, DDB Health achieved $100 million in revenue for the first time in 2024, won five clients and launched 10 products. As the IPG takeover entered its final stages, speculation arose about the fate of the DDB network in a new-look Omnicom. Campaign UK, reported in late October that Omnicom would look to scale back DDB network, which accounts for more than 90 offices in more than 40 countries, amid a "rigorous" review of brands. Meanwhile, the Purpose Group comprised CDM, Patients & Purpose as well as Science & Purpose. The latter two agencies reported topline growth in 2024, including MM+M-estimated revenues of $74 million and $28 million, respectively. (MM+M and Campaign are PRWeek's sister business media brands at Haymarket Media). As part of the restructuring, Omnicom merged Patients & Purpose, Harrison Star and TBWA\WorldHealth, which folded in July, into DDB Health prior to rebranding. Notably, former CEO of The Purpose Group Deb Deaver will now serve as CEO of the Consumer and Healthcare Professional division at Omnicom. Dana Maiman, the recently appointed CEO of Omnicom Health, added that Remedy Edge reflects the ambition of Omnicom Health: "to give clients a single, connected partner that can lead in a fast-changing landscape." "By uniting patient-first and HCP expertise and powering all with the data and intelligence of Omnicom, we're strengthening our ability to deliver smarter, more innovative solutions that drive meaningful transformation in health," Maiman stated. Omnicom's PR firms include The Weber Shandwick Collective, Golin, FleishmanHillard, Ketchum, Porter Novelli and MMC.
Close of omnicom-interpublic megamerger brings new health CEO, 4K layoffs. Almost exactly a year after Omnicom and Interpublic Group announced their plans to merge into the world's largest advertising agency, their combination is complete. Following the deal's Nov. 26 close, Omnicom on Monday outlined the structure of the newly combined company, including leaders appointed throughout "the new Omnicom." Among them is Dana Maiman, who has been tapped to lead Omnicom Health. As CEO of the agency's health-focused arm, Maiman will oversee its healthcare professional and consumer, medical communications, patient engagement and managed markets divisions. Meanwhile, also amid the combination, Omnicom plans to lay off around 4,000 employees across the entire organization, AdWeek reports. Omnicom did not immediately respond to a Fierce Pharma Marketing request for comment on the layoffs. Maiman takes on the top spot at Omnicom Health after holding the same title at Interpublic's IPG Health since its creation in 2021. Before that, she was CEO and president of the FCB Health Network - which was ultimately merged with McCann Health to create IPG Health. Just a few weeks after Omnicom and Interpublic first unveiled the acquisition plans last December, Matt McNally, then the CEO of Omnicom Health Group, announced he'd be stepping down, later surfacing as global CEO of Publicis Health. Another Omnicom Health exec followed a similar path soon after, as chief marketing officer Craig Romanok left in May and was named chief commercial officer at Publicis' Digitas Health a month later. Since McNally's departure, Michael Larson had been serving as interim CEO of Omnicom Health; under the post-merger structure, Larson has been named CEO of diversified agency services, with Maiman among his direct reports. The close of Omnicom's $13.5 billion acquisition of Interpublic was nearly a year in the making, following antitrust reviews by regulators around the globe - the last of which came from the European Commission just last week. The combined company now boasts annual revenues of more than $25 billion, per Omnicom, including billions in the realm of health and pharma. The 4,000 layoffs are already in progress and join the approximately 3,000 employees each that Omnicom and Interpublic have shed throughout the last year. The 10,000 cuts reportedly amount to about 8% of the two agencies' combined 2024 headcount and are meant to fulfill the hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of "synergies" promised in the initial merger announcement last year, by reducing newly redundant and unnecessary positions, Omnicom CEO John Wren told AdWeek.
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NEW YORK, June 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey from SSCG Media Group, Omnicom Health Group's healthcare media center of excellence, sheds light on the potential negative impacts of social media on children's mental health.The survey, which polled 150 pediatricians from SSCG's proprietary healthcare professional panel, MAP MD™, found that social media has been noted as one of the main topics being linked to mental health discussions with children by 78% of pediatricians. Some of the biggest risks being observed as it relates to mental health and social media include body image, cyberbullying, depression, and anxiety, with "tweens," or children between the ages of 9 and 12, the most vulnerable."Our survey results highlight the profound impact of social media on children's mental health," said Debbie Renner, CEO of SSCG Media Group. "Pediatricians are seeing this firsthand in their practices and are concerned about the potential negative effects of social media on children's well-being."The survey also found that pediatricians believe that social media can have positive impacts on children's mental health. For example, social media can provide a sense of community and connection for children, and it can help them feel less isolated, including children suffering from disease."Social media is a double-edged sword for children's mental health," said Renner. "It is important for parents to be aware of the potential risks and benefits of social media, and to talk to their children about how to use social media in a safe and healthy way."The survey results suggest a window of opportunity to optimize children's mental health through early intervention. As pediatricians are already trusted sources of healthcare information, they are well-positioned to help parents navigate the challenges and opportunities that social media presents for their children