Associate Director, Commercial Strategy (Healthcare)

Location: London, United Kingdom. Hybrid working with teams in the office an average of four days a week.

Company

hirify.global Health is a global healthcare agency within hirify.global and WPP, delivering brand, customer experience, commerce, medical, engagement, and commercial strategy services.

What you will do

• Lead Commercial Strategy engagements across commercialization, market readiness, category leadership, competitive differentiation, and evidence generation.
• Set project structures, workplans, governance, resourcing, risk management, and ways of working across integrated teams.
• Partner with clients to clarify objectives and translate them into practical engagement roadmaps and high-quality strategic outputs.
• Direct primary and secondary research, workshops, advisory boards, and expert engagement with healthcare stakeholders.
• Support account planning, proposals, pitches, and the conversion of growth opportunities into scoped follow-on work.
• Mentor, coach, and supervise junior strategists, including line management where required.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in healthcare strategy, consulting, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or a closely related field.
• Experience leading complex commercialization engagements across multiple therapy areas and global or regional clients.
• Strong client partnership, program leadership, governance, financial stewardship, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience directing primary research, facilitating workshops or advisory boards, and working with HCPs, KOLs, payers, patient advocates, and policymakers.
• Ability to connect asset-level strategy with broader franchise, portfolio, category, ecosystem, and macro-environment considerations.
• Strong strategic storytelling and slide craft, with high proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word; comfortable using AI with appropriate validation and governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, entrepreneurial, and growth-focused strategy culture.
• Cross-geography collaboration across the London, New York, and Milan healthcare hubs.
• Hybrid working model designed to support creativity, collaboration, and connection.
• Equal opportunity workplace committed to respect, inclusion, and career progression.