Associate Creative Director, Strategic Market Access Content (Pharma)

Job Description

Job Description

Salary: $125,000$165,000, commensurate with experience; eligible for incentives

Are you a life sciences content leader fluent in payer strategy, HEOR storytelling, and market access engagement? Victory Healthcare Communications is seeking a strategic-minded Associate Creative Director to guide high-impact content development for a major pharmaceutical client. This role is ideal for someone with deep experience in market access communicationswho can synthesize complex economic, clinical, and societal insights into persuasive, compliant narratives for payers, HCPs, and healthcare decision-makers. You will collaborate cross-functionally to shape value-driven materials that directly support coverage, reimbursement, and channel strategy.

About Victory Healthcare Communications:

At Victory Healthcare Communications, we specialize in delivering cutting-edge marketing strategies tailored for the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. We combine creativity, strategic insight, and deep industry expertise to help our clients navigate the complexities of healthcare marketing and achieve success. The Victory team is a robust and dynamic group of professionals who love working together totransform bold ideas into extraordinary realities. With over 35 years of adventurous exploration in the pharmaceutical industry, Victory Healthcare Communications has notably turned complex information into compelling stories for more than 25 major pharmaceutical clients, including eight of the world's largest.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Lead strategy-to-execution development of high-impact content across market access, payer, hospital system, and channel distribution audiences.
• Guide the creation of value proposition narratives, PIE decks, reimbursement tools, formulary kits, and pharmacy pull-through resources.
• Collaborate with strategic, medical, and client teams to align messaging with real-world evidence, HEOR, and brand access goals.
• Serve as a content lead in brand planning workshops and internal creative strategy sessions.
• Translate clinical, economic, and access data into compelling stories that resonate with payers, health systems, and administrative stakeholders.
• Navigate MLR review processes using platforms like Veeva PromoMats with a clear understanding of compliance standards (ISI, fair balance, FDA promotional review).
• Provide clear feedback and mentorship to writers and content strategists, maintaining a high standard of scientific accuracy and strategic clarity.
• Present confidently to clients and senior stakeholders, articulating the rationale behind creative and content decisions with strategic fluency.

Experience & Skills:

• Experience: 8+ years of healthcare/pharmaceutical communications experience, with at least 35 years in market access, payer, or reimbursement communications.
• Strategic Mindset: Ability to understand and synthesize scientific and strategic content into clear, actionable creative concepts that resonate with target stakeholders. Strong strategic acumen and content development leadership across HCP, payer, and access ecosystems.
• Demonstrated success: Proven track record translating PIE, HEOR, or clinical strategy into value-centric messaging for payers and decision-makers.
• Strong Portfolio: A portfolio that showcases strategic, access-focused content, not just visual execution (e.g., value decks, pull-through tools, access strategy frameworks).
• Leadership & Communication: Strong communicator and active listener who can translate client needs into smart, actionable plans while maintaining a collaborative, positive, solutions-first mindset under pressure. Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, plus the ability to lead conversations with senior clients and internal stakeholders.
• Executional Excellence: For multiple projects with competing priorities, ensure cohesive creative strategy, execution, consistency, and quality across all creative outputs within an account, while adhering to brand standards and editorial style guides.
• Organization: Detail-oriented and process-driven, with excellent project and time management skills, and clear understanding of the medical/legal/regulatory environment and communications review process.
• Proficiency with Veeva/Veeva PromoMats and experience navigating the Promotional Review process and MLR teams.
• Bachelors degree in a related field (science, communications, marketing) preferred.

Technical & Computer Skills:

• Expertise working in an Apple/Macintosh computer environment, as well as Apple software.
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Teams, Copilot).
• Solid knowledge of Google Workspace (Calendar, Sheets, Slides, Docs, Meet, and Gmail).
• Knowledge of Adobe Suite (Acrobat, InDesign and Photoshop). Illustrator is a plus.
• Proficiency with Veeva CRM and PromoMats.
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., Asana, Monday.com, Wrike, Trello, Filemaker) is a plus.

Why Join Victory?

We take pride in our collaborative culture, client dedication, and commitment to delivering work that improves patient access and understanding. If youre looking to work on meaningful projects with smart, passionate peoplewed love to connect. Compensation includes a competitive base salary plus eligibility for structured performance-based incentives related to business growth, project success, and high-impact contributions.

Ready to Apply?

Apply with your resume and a link to your portfolio. Applicants may be asked to complete a skills assessment as part of the interview process.

Victory Healthcare Communications is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent to perform the many tasks necessary to providing high-quality service. An integral part of this policy is to provide equal employment opportunity for all persons considered for employment and to recruit and administer hiring, working conditions, benefits and privileges of employment, compensation, training, opportunities for advancement (including upgrading and promotion), transfer, and termination of employment (including layoffs and recalls) for all employees without discrimination because of race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, sex (including pregnancy), familial status, marital/civil union status, religion, domestic partnership status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for military status, mental or physical disability (including perceived disability and AIDS and HIV status), or other characteristics unrelated to a persons qualification and/or job performance). If you are truly detail oriented, you will discover that you need to mention the word "spaceship" in one of the application questions.