Description:
This position provides the opportunity to work on exciting communications programs for leading healthcare brands, develop key relationships with healthcare industry clients, and manage the strategic outreach to the media, third-party organizations, healthcare professionals and consumers.
Responsibilities
- Play a pivotal role in handling many of the day-to-day activities for the healthcare practice’s account teams, including working with senior members of the team to help oversee projects, connecting across our healthcare and agency teams, and provide client counsel.
- Be flexible and facilitate teamwork within account team; coordinate team resources and create opportunities for junior staff to take on more responsibility; fully utilize agency resources to create the "best teams" for your clients.
- Demonstrate ability to develop and provide feedback on high-quality written materials, including strategic plans, press materials, social copy, client correspondence, etc.
- Drive strategic plans and communications campaigns across key stakeholders that are aligned with client business objectives and deliver results.
- Develop relationships and coordinate correspondence with external audiences: third-party organizations, healthcare professionals, media, etc.
- Develop and monitor client program plans and budgets for profitability; report status to client and agency management on a regular basis.
- Explore and create opportunities for incremental business growth within your clients’ organizations
- Build and maintain strong client relationships.
Qualifications
- Minimum of 4+ years' experience. Biotech, pharmaceutical or healthcare communications experience within a communications agency is required.
- A thirst for knowledge, interest and desire to work in the ever-changing world of healthcare and communications.
- Skilled at applied strategic thinking; anticipating issues, trends, and connections, and translating those insights into actionable ideas for the client and our healthcare team.
- A collaborative team member and team leader, with strong project management and problem-solving skills and ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Ability to translate large amounts of clinical data and information into lay language that resonates across client stakeholders.
- Keen understanding of the role of digital media in integrated communications strategies as well as traditional, digital and social media healthcare environment.
- Ability to develop and contribute to strategic outreach plans to external audiences via social platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.), third-party organizations, healthcare professionals, media, etc.
- Ability to effectively supervise and train junior-level account staff, provide quality control, determine workflow and assignments.
- Excellent writing and editing skills, including the ability to develop and strategically direct the creation of press materials and communications plans.
- Demonstrated strategic media relations planning, with the ability to develop strong media pitch angles, lead pitch teams and pitch story ideas to reporters.
- Strong client relationship skills and the ability to successfully represent FH and client companies to key stakeholders