Media Director, Healthcare & Pharma

Media space Health is a healthcare and pharma-focused media agency built to help brands navigate complex, regulated markets with clarity, precision, and confidence. We specialize in strategic media planning, buying, and measurement across professional, patient, caregiver, payer, and healthcare stakeholder audiences. Our work spans rare disease, specialty pharma, diagnostics, medical devices, healthcare services, and emerging health innovations.

We need a seasoned media professional who can bring strategic leadership, healthcare expertise, operational discipline, and client confidence to a growing business. This person should be equally comfortable shaping a new business pitch, developing a strategic media recommendation, leading internal teams, negotiating with partners, and helping clients understand how media can support business goals. Media space Health employees have strong organizational skills, excellent communication, and a desire to learn and grow within the company.

We are looking for someone with an entrepreneurial spirit who works independently and is willing to jump in where needed to grow the business.

This position reports to the Director of Healthcare Media.

This position plays a critical leadership role within Media space Health, overseeing the development of integrated media strategies for healthcare and pharmaceutical clients. This role is responsible for leading media planning, partner evaluation, tactical recommendations, budget stewardship, campaign oversight, optimization direction, and performance reporting across all healthcare audiences.

This individual will serve as a strategic media lead for both existing clients and new business opportunities, helping translate client objectives, audience insights, market dynamics, and regulatory considerations into smart, actionable media plans. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in pharma or healthcare media, strong digital fluency, an understanding of healthcare and pharma media environments, and the ability to operate in a nimble, collaborative, growth-focused agency environment.

This is a senior, hands-on role for someone who can lead strategically while still engaging in the details needed to deliver excellent work.

• Lead the development of integrated healthcare and pharma media strategies across HCP, patient, caregiver, payer, and healthcare decision-maker audiences, understand how audiences differ in media behavior, targeting options, compliance considerations, and measurement expectations
• Translate brand goals, market challenges, audience behaviors, treatment journeys, stakeholder dynamics, and competitive context into clear media strategies and tactical recommendations
• Develop channel strategies across endemic healthcare media, programmatic, paid search, paid social, video, display, native, email, conference support, peer-to-peer environments, point-of-care, print, and emerging media channels
• Understand the nuances of pharma media planning, including branded vs. unbranded communications, disease awareness, rare disease market development, launch planning, adherence support, and non-personal promotion
• Support our position as a strategic media partner by contributing media perspective, category insight, and thoughtful recommendations that go beyond placement execution

• Participate in new business strategy, client discovery calls, RFP responses, and pitch development
• Shape compelling media recommendations and pitch decks that demonstrate understanding of the healthcare landscape, audience dynamics, and client business challenges
• Present confidently to prospective clients and agency partners, clearly explaining recommendations, media opportunities, and expected outcomes
• Identify opportunities to expand existing client relationships through strategic thinking, proactive ideas, test-and-learn recommendations, and strong business stewardship

• Oversee the development of media plans, tactical recommendations, flowcharts, budgets, investment allocations, partner evaluations, and execution details
• Evaluate publishers and platforms across the media landscape guiding teams on how to use them and when to incorporate into media recommendations, effective negotiations, audience guarantees and measurable deliverables

• Provide leadership across campaign setup, launch, pacing, optimization,…