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The Strategic Content Lead is a senior content strategist responsible for shaping the high-level direction, influence, and execution of content across an entire therapeutic vertical, and serving as a recognizable brand ambassador externally. This player-coach role blends scientific expertise, KOL network leadership, content innovation, and cross-functional partnership to build scalable content models that support both audience needs and enterprise business objectives.

You are the strategic engine behind the brand — owning the content roadmap, developing premium programs, managing producers, and representing the organization at the highest levels of clinician engagement.

What You’ll Do

As a Strategic Content Lead at MJH Life Sciences®, you will drive the direction, voice, and strategy for your therapeutic area. You’ll oversee content producers, cultivate a robust KOL ecosystem, create premium multimedia franchises (which may involve on-camera work), and shape content innovations that elevate the company’s influence in health care media.

Therapeutic Area Ownership

• Set the content direction and strategy for your therapeutic area (e.g., Oncology, Neurology, Cardiology, Dermatology).
• Oversee all content producers, content franchises, partner programs, and high-impact initiatives within the vertical.
• Ensure that content aligns with audience needs, clinical trends, brand positioning, and enterprise-wide goals.

KOL Network Strategy & Partnership Leadership

• Build, optimize, and oversee an enterprise-level KOL ecosystem across your specialty, with MJH’s signature white-glove service always on full display.
• Define strategic faculty engagement plans, ensuring depth, diversity, and the right mix of experts for premium programs and large-scale initiatives.
• Develop long-term relationships with top-tier KOLs, clinical trial investigators, society leaders, and industry influencers.

Content Product Development

• Concept, design, and elevate major content products—premium video programs, recurring franchises, expert panels, congress series, and social-first formats.
• Lead content experimentation and pilot new models that modernize clinician engagement.
• Identify cross-brand opportunities and develop new initiatives that drive influence and scale across the enterprise.

Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor Content Producers and Content Associates.
• Provide coaching, performance feedback, goal-setting, and succession planning.
• Assign resources strategically based on product demand, vertical priorities, and business needs.

Data-Informed Strategy

• Leverage analytics and audience insights to refine calendars, optimize engagement, and maintain consistently high editorial quality.
• Ensure best-in-class practices for SEO, AEO, UX, and platform-specific performance.

Business Partnership

• Collaborate with VP of Content Strategy, Project Management, Business Development, and other stakeholders to support enterprise initiatives.
• Play a key role in high-level client interactions, KOL recruitment strategy, and market differentiation efforts.

Content Innovation

• Champion emerging trends in AI, video production, digital storytelling, and clinician engagement.
• Pilot new tools, workflows, and formats that advance the department’s capabilities.

What Sets You Apart

• You’re an influential content leader with the ability to blend science, strategy, and storytelling. You can coach teams, inspire experts, build high-performing content ecosystems, and steer enterprise-level content with clarity and confidence.
• You think at both the 30,000-ft strategic level and the tactical execution level.
• You have a naturally outgoing, charismatic presence that puts clinicians at ease.
• You can talk to anyone — from world-renowned KOLs to junior researchers — and build instant rapport.
• You’re energized by relationship-building and naturally create trust, connection, and momentum in every interaction.
• You’re deeply curious about clinical research and emerging scientific trends.
• You know how to build long-term partnerships with elite KOLs and guide them through impactful content creation.
• You’re a natural mentor who develops talent and elevates the standard of the entire team.
• You’re comfortable playing a visible leadership role across internal and external audiences.

Why MJH Life Sciences®

MJH Life Sciences® is the largest privately held, independent medical media company in North America — home to 20+ trusted healthcare brands, award-winning clinical journalism, and category-defining events. As a Strategic Content Lead, you will shape the future of medical communication—driving scalable content models, elevating clinician engagement, and advancing critical conversations across your therapeutic area.

Education

• Advanced scientific degree strongly preferred (MS, MPH, PharmD, PhD, MD, or equivalent).
• Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, Life Sciences, or related field required.

Experience

• 5–8+ years in medical communications, clinical content strategy, healthcare journalism, or a related field.
• Proven experience leading content teams, managing KOL partnerships, and producing complex multimedia programs.
• Demonstrated success overseeing content strategy at a therapeutic area or portfolio level.

Skills

• Strong scientific and clinical acumen; ability to translate data into strategic content direction.
• Leadership experience guiding multi-level content teams.
• Exceptional communication skills—written, verbal, and on-camera.
• Deep understanding of clinical research, pipeline developments, and healthcare industry trends.
• Expertise in developing and scaling omnichannel content products.
• Forward-thinking mindset with fluency in emerging tools (AI, digital video, social-first formats).
• Charismatic communicator with strong interpersonal instincts.
• Comfortable initiating conversations with high-profile experts and navigating complex stakeholder dynamics.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence, guide, and connect across diverse personalities.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.

MJH Life Sciences provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. All employees of MJH Life Sciences are employed “At Will.” This means that either the employee or the Company is free to end the employment relationship at any time, for any reason, with or without cause and with or without notice.