Assistant Medical Strategist

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Company Description

The Klick Group—comprising Klick Health (including Klick Katalyst and btwelve), Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures—is an ecosystem dedicated to realizing the full potential of our people and clients in life sciences. Founded in 1997, we have offices in New York, Philadelphia, Saratoga Springs, Toronto, London, São Paulo, and Singapore. Consistently named a Best Managed Company, Most Admired Corporate Culture, and Great Place to Work, Klick is committed to fostering a high-performance, people-first culture with creativity, collaboration, innovation, and impact across everything we do.

About Our Medical Strategy Team

Our Medical Strategy team, part of our Medical Craft, shapes how scientific insights inform brand and business decisions. The team translates complex clinical data into clear strategic direction that resonates with healthcare audiences. They collaborate closely with Strategy and Creative to ensure messaging is medically sound and insight-driven. Their work helps brands communicate value with clarity, relevance, and credibility.

Job Description

As an Assistant Medical Strategist, this role supports medical strategy initiatives for life sciences clients by translating clinical and scientific evidence into clear, medically sound brand direction. The role partners with Medical Strategy, Creative, Strategy, and Client Services teams to review content, interpret data, and help shape differentiated brand narratives. This position also supports business development through research, medical content development, and pitch preparation.

What You’ll Do

  • Support medical strategy work for healthcare and life sciences brands by reviewing clinical data, brand materials, and disease-state context.
  • Translate complex science into clear communications, strategic POVs, and medically viable recommendations for internal teams and clients.
  • Review content created by copywriters, medical writers, and cross-functional teams for scientific accuracy, relevance, and brand differentiation.
  • Maintain understanding of assigned therapeutic landscapes through competitive analyses, literature review, and emerging clinical updates.
  • Contribute to RFPs, pitches, and account growth by developing research summaries, medical content, and strategic inputs.

Qualifications

Required:

  • PhD, MD, or PharmD degree with demonstrated ability to interpret clinical and scientific information for healthcare audiences.
  • Experience analyzing clinical literature, scientific data, or therapeutic landscapes and turning findings into written recommendations or POVs.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills shown through scientific writing, presentations, publications, client materials, or academic work.
  • Knowledge of marketing fundamentals with examples of applying audience, brand, or positioning considerations to scientific communication.
  • Organizational skills demonstrated through managing multiple deliverables, deadlines, workstreams, or stakeholder inputs.

Desired:

  • Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
  • 3+ years of experience in medical strategy, medical communications, pharmaceutical consulting, or a related life sciences role.
  • Agency experience supporting healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences clients.
  • Experience presenting medically related recommendations to clients, senior stakeholders, or cross-functional teams.
  • Experience supporting business development, RFPs, pitch research, or new opportunity development.

Additional Information

This posting is for a newly created role at Klick.

The base salary range for this position is between CAD $90,000 - $110,000. The final amount offered will be determined based on several factors such as a candidate’s work location, their unique skill set, education, and prior work experience.

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Our Commitment to Inclusion

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.

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Equal Opportunity

Klick embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, ancestry, place of origin, color, ethnic origin, citizenship, creed, sex, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, or family status. If you require disability-related accommodation during the application or interview process, simply let us know and we'll work with you to ensure you have a positive experience.