Agency:
Weber Shandwick
Job Function:
Communications and PR
Job Subfunction:
Public Relations
Job Description:
What You Will Be Doing:
Our team is seeking a Manager with client experience and healthcare communications expertise to serve as a counselor to our clients for one of our largest and fastest growing accounts. As a Manager, you will be responsible for developing and executing strategic integrated communications programs, supporting overall strategy, and advising healthcare clients. You will be a conceptual thinker with exceptional organizational and prioritization skills.
In addition, you should have an agency background in healthcare communications with experience working on pharmaceutical products and/or disease education programs, as well as knowledge of the media landscape and considerations in this space. The ideal candidate will have broad interest in the full remit of healthcare communications, including social/digital, earned media, data and regulatory milestones, and unbranded disease awareness programming. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have a specific interest or experience in celebrity campaigns.
Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Support day-to-day digital strategy for a major client across a portfolio of brands, becoming an expert on our clients' business and understanding how their communications objectives help achieve business goals.
Write content briefs, oversee social media content calendars and develop project timelines
Coordinate with account, sci comms, analytics and influencer teams
Off a baseline understanding of digital analytics and measurement performance-driven insights for social, influencer and digital platforms
Manage client status & internal status documents from a digital perspective
Maintain a keen interest in current industry trends, and act as a thought leader in elevating these trends to directly and indirectly affect clients and our digital health practice
Attend and speak on client calls, offering strategic counsel with digital lead support
Be a demonstrated self-starter and work well within a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team to deliver client success
What We Are Looking For:
Experience working on multi-disciplinary (holistic) healthcare communication initiatives, ideally including disease education campaigns
Familiarity with data and regulatory milestone communications
Fluency and/or familiarity with digital and social media
Strong understanding of the relationship between traditional public relations and the use of current online/digital technology and social media
Experience with clients and accounts that are measurement and evaluation driven
Strong presentation skills, poise, and professionalism
Industry experience in healthcare communications and/or pharmaceuticals
Basic Qualifications
At least 4 years' experience in public relations at an agency or corporate in-house (healthcare experience preferred)
The ability to manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously.
Be a self-starter who works well within a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.
BA or BS in Public Relations, Communications, or in a related field
$82,000-$92,000
Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.
