Job Order: 5210
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Account Director
Location: North Carolina
Company Summary:
A dynamic, full-service healthcare communications agency
Description:
The ideal Medical Communications Account Director will have a master’s degree (minimum bachelor’s degree) in life sciences or communications with a minimum of 7-10 years of account management experience (eg, communications agency). Additionally, he/she will possess in-depth knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, specifically regarding communications planning and branding.
Responsibilities include
- Serve as the principal agency representative to middle/senior levels of management at client’s organization
- Responsible for the overall development, servicing, and profitability of assigned accounts
- Provide strategic leadership to the account, scientific, and creative teams
- Ensure that the resources of the agency, department by department, are deployed with continued maximum effectiveness in the client’s best interest
- Contribute to the development of strategic communication (publication, advocacy development, and medical education) plans
- Ultimately responsible for ensuring that creative and scientific output is on strategy, on message, and clearly exceeds the client’s expectation
- Actively identify and follow up with new business leads
- Recruit, hire, train, and supervise account teams
