At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities.

Group Account Director

As a Group Account Director, you will serve as the senior strategic leader across multiple medical affairs and publication workstreams. You’ll own client relationships at the highest level, drive integrated account growth, and ensure operational excellence across a portfolio of work. This role requires leadership, business acumen, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders while mentoring a high-performing team.

This is a hybrid role, based in any of our US offices—New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Carmel (IN), or Lambertville (NJ)—or remotely within the US, depending on team and business needs. We are also open to remote applicants in Ontario, Canada.

Strategic Leadership: Act as the senior client partner, shaping long-term strategies and ensuring alignment with client objectives and industry best practices

Identify and drive opportunities for account expansion, new business development, and innovative solutions across multiple accounts. This includes pitching for new business as well as growing accounts to their full potential

Operational Excellence:



Oversee account operations, ensuring flawless execution, proactive issue resolution, and financial stewardship (budgeting, forecasting, profitability)

Executive-Level Counsel: Provide trusted advisory support to senior client stakeholders on medical affairs and publication strategies

Team Development: Lead, mentor, and inspire account teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and excellence

Industry Expertise: Stay ahead of regulatory changes, competitive trends, and emerging best practices to inform client strategies You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data.

10+ years in medical affairs/publications within an agency setting, with at least 3 years in a senior leadership role

Expertise in advisory boards, symposia, MSL materials; publication planning a plus

Proven track record of managing multi-million-dollar accounts and driving organic growth

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required; Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, skills, certifications, and geographical location. We believe we can do our best when feeling our best, which is why we’ve put together a perks program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life. Globally,



this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future.

Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning. Some positions offer hybrid or remote flexibility, while others require regular in-office presence. For example, certain teams and regions, including some of our UK operations, have office-based requirements.

For employees located within a one-hour commute of a Real Chemistry office, we require in-person attendance two days per week, either from a Real Chemistry office or when working onsite with clients. Employees in regions without a nearby office may work remotely and come together throughout the year for collaboration, culture-building, learning, and team connection opportunities. While these guidelines reflect our current workplace model, we understand that everyone’s circumstances are unique.

We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates.

📌 Group Account Director (Medical Affairs) (Toronto)
🏢 Real Chemistry
📍 Toronto