Senior Strategist - Health

We transform the fortunes of our clients’ businesses by placing them at the centre of our strategy, and using cutting edge insight from consumer advertising to give them the competitive edge.

Our challenger mindset and extensive range of capabilities means we can build the team that’s right for your challenge, whether you are focused on KOLs, ROI, or AI.

We can speak to HCPs, patients, payers, or the public. Whoever’s perspective you need to change.

VCCP Health is a specialist agency that was set up to bring greater strategic rigour and higher creative standards to healthcare communications. Our aim is to bring a Challenger Spirit to this sector, not settling for doing things as they’ve always been done, but rather looking at how things could be done differently. The agency works on prescription, OTC & wellness brands, developing the full range of materials required for communications aimed at healthcare professionals and consumers.

The client portfolio spans human and animal health, and a wide range of therapy areas and markets. Wherever possible, we bring the most innovative approaches and thinking from the consumer agency to the world of healthcare.

Advances in technology are driving and changing the way that we all communicate, and whether our target audience is consumers, healthcare professionals or any other stakeholder, integration is now crucial to all marketing communications:
At VCCP “we believe it only works if it all works”.

As part of the VCCP Partnership, one of the leading consumer agencies, VCCP Health is perfectly positioned to be leading the way in this new era and transforming healthcare communications.

VCCP Has a Unique Culture, And We Are Looking For People Who Will Make a Positive Contribution To This;
Therefore, The Candidate Must Have The Following Attributes

• A collaborative nature
• An entrepreneurial spirit
• Take pride in their work
• An honest approach
• Be un-precious and able to recognise that a good idea can come from anywhere
• Take responsibility

We are looking for an ambitious and highly organised individual who is articulate, curious, proactive and thrives in a fast-paced environment across a range of pharma, health and wellness projects.

Essential to this role is proven healthcare agency or sector experience. Whilst the successful candidate needs to be a natural self-starter, it is also important that the candidate can work as part of a team across a range of disciplines from medical writers and creatives to account handlers.

We need a Senior Planner who is creatively driven, deeply analytical, and just as comfortable with foundational brand strategy as they are with communications and healthcare omni-channel planning.

They will have a firm grasp of (but healthy skepticism towards) traditional planning processes and ‘the done way of doing things.’ They will identify with VCCP’s Challenger positioning and recognise it in the way they approach their own work, pushing beyond conventional patient and HCP engagement models. They understand today’s complex, highly regulated, and fragmented healthcare landscape, knowing how strategies must flex across paid, owned, and earned channels to reach patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals in modern, non-traditional ways.

They are passionate about humanising health and identifying proactive ways to make healthcare brands culturally relevant and deeply resonant.

They will have successful experience on medium- to large-sized business or pitches with oversight from their planning leads, with at least five years’ experience. They will be confident presenting and briefing, with no problem taking complex clinical briefs from inception right through to delivery. Perhaps most importantly of…