Harrison and Star

SVP, Health & Life Science

Harrison and Star$123K — $225K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in pharmaceutical or healthcare communications, with agency or in-house experience
  • Expertise in pharma and regulated health communications
  • Demonstrated ability to oversee multiple workstreams with keen attention to detail
  • Operationally minded with skills in staffing, forecasting, and project management
  • Strong client relationship skills with a focus on building trust and exploring new opportunities

Responsibilities

  • Drive day-to-day activities for healthcare account teams and collaborate with senior leadership
  • Provide client counsel while actively participating in calls and reviewing materials
  • Manage and mentor teams across various accounts, ensuring resource coordination
  • Develop and edit high-quality written communications materials for clients
  • Cultivate relationships with external audiences including healthcare professionals and media
  • Identify opportunities for business growth within client organizations
  • Oversee program plans and budgets, ensuring effective communication with clients.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • 401(k) matching contributions
  • Generous paid time off policies
  • Professional development opportunities
  • Commitment to diversity and inclusion within the workplace
Full Job Description
Agency:
FleishmanHillard

Job Function:
Consulting

Job Subfunction:
Business and Change Consulting

Job Description:
Overview

FleishmanHillard 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 both are exemplary leaders and effective team players. This position provides the opportunity to drive exciting communications programs for a leading healthcare brand, 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.

Responsibilities:

Play a pivotal role in handling many of the day-to-day activities for the healthcare practice's account teams, including working with senior members of the team to drive 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 the VP 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.
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:

Minimum of 10+ years of experience. Pharmaceutical or healthcare communications experience within an in-house team or communications agency is required, including experience working in corporate healthcare.
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.
Breadth of understanding of different disciplines, with a 360 mindset to pull in the right people for the right activities.
Expert oversight over multiple workstreams, with attention to detail.
Solution-focused; offering clear counsel.
Innovative - always pushing for excellence and thinking about how to achieve the best results (take things from good to great).
Understands the business and how to show communications value in driving core business objectives.
Client-focused, building relationships and trust to serve current business and seamlessly mine for new opportunities
Is operationally minded and can manage staffing, projections, forecasting, etc.
A thirst for knowledge, interest, and desire to work in the ever-changing world of healthcare and communications.
Skilled at applied strategic thinking, anticipating issues, trends, and connections, and translating those insights into actionable ideas for the clients and our healthcare team.
A collaborative team member and leader, with strong project management and problem-solving skills and ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Ability to effectively supervise, train and mentor junior-level account staff, provide quality control, 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.
Keen understanding of the role of digital media in integrated communications strategies as well as traditional, digital and social media healthcare environment.
Ability to develop and contribute to strategic outreach plans to external audiences via social platforms (e.g., LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, 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.

Link to Recruitment Privacy Notice: https://www.omc.com/privacy-notice

About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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500 employees
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Founded
1986
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