Therapy Director - Healthcare Communications Agency
- Location:
- High Wycombe jobs
,
Buckinghamshire jobs
- Salary:
- £60,000 +
- Company:
- Riverside Selection
- Job type:
- Permanent jobs
- Date posted:
- 30/10/2009 16:22
- Job id:
- 45808422
- Contact:
- Liese Kelly
- Ref:
- Totaljobs/1139
Our client is a healthcare communications agency based in High Wycombe that specialises in helping organisations engage KOLs in their strategy and then leveraging the commitment to deliver effective endorsement and education programmes for their clients’ communication initiatives. This is a new organisation with a highly targeted strategy to build a reputation for providing bespoke projects to a demanding audience, primarily the hospital specialists who are key medicine prescribers.
They are looking for a Therapy Director who can lead a multi-disciplinary team of account handlers, event managers and writers to deliver industry leading services across a range of client accounts. You should be seen by the client as an external expert in the therapeutic area, not simply as somebody who manages the agency team. You will be the senior client contact for key projects, responsible for the overall service and business development for a range of accounts, providing leadership for the team in delivering each client project, setting goals, service standards, timeframes and communication expectations. You’ll be responsible for managing and co-ordinating all resources within the team and personally providing industry leading insight, knowledge and intellect to impress clients. Ideally you should be able to understand each therapy area better than the client, to ensure the agency can provide optimal commercial and strategic thinking to each project. You should be somebody who seeks and gets pitch opportunities and leads and co-ordinates the internal team to win business through pitches.
In the role you will be a member of the company’s management team, making the decisions that drives its future. You will probably come from a job as either a senior marketer within a pharmaceutical company with experience of managing KOLs, teams of people, product launches and numerous agencies; an Account Director, Senior Account Director, Client Service Director within a healthcare agency. A science degree would be a minimum requirement here, but ideally a PhD as well. You’ll be articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills, have high levels of intellectual curiosity – always looking to understand more, an excellent leader and manager capable of setting clear direction and getting the most out of people.
