What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Health position at Edelman?
We are a US wide healthcare team, within a global communications and marketing agency, whose track record is second to none. Our award-winning healthcare campaigns are “unconventional” and “disruptive” that work hard to solve our client’s problems. Whether it’s helping to navigate a rare disease state, make sense of a new policy or clearly articulate a product’s value proposition, our work, experience and diversity of talent is unmatched. If you are imaginative and entrepreneurial, and want to be a part of a growing, industry-shaping health team, we want to hear from you.
We are constantly exploring new communication marketing approaches in the pursuit of telling our clients’ stories in fresh and innovative ways that resonate with the wide array of stakeholders. We build programs and integrated teams that meet the needs of the rapidly evolving healthcare and communications landscape.
To join our team, you must have health experience. We’re looking for real deal, health chops in pharma and biotech. We are building teams differently these days, so you must also be able to work closely and lead creatives, planners, researchers, strategists and others who look, sound and act a little differently to one another.
Responsibilities:
- Lead integrated agency team members by providing objective direction and feedback that inspires innovative, creative ideas and tactics that have measurable impact
- Strategize on the fly and serve in an advisory role to client on a day-to-day basis, providing counsel based on insights, trends, metrics and competitors
- Deeply embed in client’s business, understanding ongoing business challenges and building meaningful relationships with clients
- Understand and leverage the Edelman global network and resources at your disposal to better serve and meet client needs
- Mentor, motivate, coach and help team members grow in their professional career
- Serve as an excellent steward of client budgets and lead management of billing processes, on behalf of clients and Edelman
- Demonstrate strong storytelling and presentation skills, able to effectively author a deck and persuasively deliver work to clients
- Contribute to the exploration and pursuit of new business efforts, from initial RFP response to client presentation
Requirements:
- 8 years of relevant experience and bachelor’s degree in communications/PR and or related fields including advertising, marketing, planning, creative, media, advertising or digital health
- Experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare communications and/or marketing
- Superb people manager and experience successfully managing resources and budgets
- Entrepreneurial and professional and have the confidence necessary to manage a team
- Solid track record of contributing to integrated solutions for clients or team
- Fluency in digital media, channel partners and the role of media in the communications marketing mix
- Demonstrated presentation, verbal, written and communication skills
- Experience and familiarity with medical research and/or patient care organizations
- Comfort working with members of the C-Suite
- Executive visibility and thought leadership
- Media relations
- Employee Engagement
- Social, digital activations
- Brand identity
- Crisis & Issues
Ability to understand and align the following workstreams:
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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).
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