Job Description
Successful global PR agency with 500 employees in the US is hiring several roles in their Health & Wellness practice, from Account Executive to Account Director. Roles will focus on product comms to patient/consumer audiences. Both new-to-market therapies and new indications/formulations for existing brands. Our client is recognized in the oncology space, as well as vaccines, mental health/neuroscience, rare disease and gene therapies.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Operating in a regulated client environment, but opportunities for programs with patients and HCPs
- Helping communicate data and regulatory milestones for the agency’s oncology client
- Strong project management skills
- Managing and implementing all day-to-day client activities across a variety of work streams
- Project managing traditional, digital, media and social media, content and engagement to deliver on strategy work
- Building a trusted advisor relationship with your clients and external partners who touch the client’s business, as well as with the agency’s colleagues
- Pushing creative to move programs to the next level
- Researching and analyzing industry and competitor trends and providing insightful recommendations to team and client
- Providing direction and feedback to junior team members in daily and ongoing responsibilities; mentoring them for growth within the team and the agency
- Participating in the hiring and onboarding of new team members
Desired Skills And Experience
- Enormous commitment to making a difference in healthcare PR
- Thorough understanding of rules and regulations in consumer and / or pharma healthcare space
- 5+ years of PR/communications experience, PR agency experience will be advantageous
- Balanced organized workstyle allowing for equal success whether stepping up and driving work independently or collaborating and project managing with the team
- Sureness in all the skills one would expect at this level including understanding the regulatory environment; engaging directly with clients on most agendas; project management; writing; content development; presenting; digital; social; budget; preference for working as part of a highly collaborative team
