Agency:
FleishmanHillard

Job Function:
Consulting

Job Subfunction:
Business and Change Consulting

Job Description:

FleishmanHillard, a leading global communications agency, is seeking an enthusiastic, energetic and self-starting Senior Vice President to join our dynamic and collaborative healthcare practice. FH has built its reputation on creating customized, integrated solutions that deliver what our clients value most: meaningful, positive and measurable impact on the performance of their organizations meeting their specific challenges or opportunities. We're seeking energetic professionals with good instincts, who are early adopters and self-starters, and have an adventurous spirit and passion for collaboration.

Our culture values talented, nimble, creative people who are both exemplary leaders and effective team players. This position provides the opportunity to drive exciting communications programs for leading healthcare brands, manage teams in partnership with senior leadership, develop key relationships with healthcare industry clients, and execute strategic plans and outreach to the media, third-party organizations, healthcare professionals and consumers. At FleishmanHillard, we embrace challenges, think boldly, trust each other, and harness our talented worldwide network to provide the best-in-class counsel to our roster of remarkable global clients. Are you ready to join the team?

FleishmanHillard values the importance of impact and inclusion to strengthen the bonds between us, grow our people and create spaces for everyone to thrive. We stay true to our commitment to our people and the communities in which we live and work. As part of our ongoing effort to be the world's most inclusive agency, we are committed to seeking candidates who possess and demonstrate a profound interest in furthering our impact and inclusion goals.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as team leader, driving strategic and day-to-day direction for the Health & Life Science team's clients, including driving client business and programs, connecting across our healthcare and agency teams, and providing client counsel.

• Be responsive and available to the team and clients, with a "roll up your sleeves" mentality (on internal and external calls, reviewing materials, working closely with leaders on staffing, roles & responsibilities, developing plans and strategic materials with the team).

• Be flexible and manage teams across accounts; coordinate with team on resources and mentor and manage staff; bring on agency resources to create the "best teams" and deliver results for your clients.

• Develop and edit high-quality written materials, including client annual plans, creative programs, social strategy and content, media and other stakeholder communications/materials, etc.

• Develop relationships and coordinate across external audiences: third-party organizations, healthcare professionals, media, etc.
• Oversee operational elements of the client business, including staffing and forecasting, budget development and management.

• Explore and create opportunities for incremental business growth within your clients' organizations.

• Manage team driving program plans and budgets for profitability; ensure regular communication to clients and agency management.

• Build and maintain strong client relationships.

• Cultivate diverse teams and contribute to an inclusive working and learning environment.

Qualifications/Preferred Experience:

• Minimum of 15+ years of experience. Pharmaceutical or healthcare communications experience within an in-house team or communications agency is required, including experience working in health and life sciences.

• Pharma and regulated health expert, with a clear understanding of how to guide the team and client toward solutions that compliantly allow us to activate through the most effective channels.

• A breadth of understanding of different disciplines, with a 360 mindset to pull in the right people for the right activities.

• Experience providing expert oversight across multiple workstreams, with great attention to detail.

• Understands the client's business and how to show communications value in driving core business objectives.

• Client-focused, with a demonstrated ability to build relationships and trust in order to serve current business and seamlessly mine for new opportunities

• Experience leading large pharma/healthcare accounts, and can manage staffing, projections, forecasting, etc.

• Skilled at applied strategic thinking, anticipating issues, trends, and connections, and translating those insights into actionable ideas for the clients and our healthcare team.

• Ability to effectively supervise, train and mentor mid- and junior-level account staff, provide quality control, and determine workflow and assignments.

• Strong client relationship skills and the ability to successfully represent FH and client companies to key stakeholders.

• Excellent writing and editing skills, including the ability to develop and strategically direct the creation of press materials and communications plans.

• Ability to translate large amounts of clinical data and information into lay language that resonates across client stakeholders.

• Ability to develop and contribute to strategic outreach plans to external audiences via social platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.), third-party organizations, healthcare professionals, media, etc.

• Proven understanding of healthcare environment and strategic media relations planning, with the ability to develop strong media pitch angles, lead pitch teams, and pitch story ideas to that deliver results for clients.

The anticipated U.S. salary range for the Senior Vice President level is $123,000-$225,000.

Salary is based on a range of factors that include relevant experience, knowledge, skills, other job-related qualifications and geography. A range of medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off and/or other benefits also are available.

$123,000-$225,000

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.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we're focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us-we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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