Executive Vice President

Primary Responsibilities:

• The Executive Vice President, Health Practice Lead position is a unique career-building opportunity to lead and grow our efforts for our dynamic clients in medtech, pharma, digital health and life sciences. 
• As a senior member of our leadership team, the Executive Vice President, Health Practice Lead, will be a visionary with 15+ years of experience growing teams, expanding offerings, and delighting clients. The individual will also play a key role in strategic acquisitions, drive new business development for the health practice, support agency infrastructure and drive key business cornerstones forward.  
• The right leader will serve as a mentor, coach, and creative, strategic spark for all health teams, providing guidance on client management, staff development, and strategy. If you’re a builder, a problem-solver and want to bring integrated solutions forward that help patients and providers, get in touch. 

EVP Job Responsibilities Include:

• Lead the health practice and team with purposeful direction to achieve strategic growth and distinction in the market.
• Serve as a strategic partner to clients and direct programs that help them meet their business goals 
• Build and nurture client relationships and grow business by providing leadership, direction and strategic guidance to colleagues, day-to-day teams, and senior-level clients
• Oversee practice group revenue by managing the ebb and flow of accounts and budgets to meet growth goals for the practice.
• Generate organic revenue within existing clients by taking a broad view of the entire marketing and communications mix and offering strategic recommendations to expand the scope of work or bring new services to clients.
• Identify and lead new business pitches to bring in new clients to meet growth goals.
• Stay ahead of the shifts in the healthcare environment and guide teams and clients.
• Work with integrated teams to provide clients with seamless multi-channel solutions utilizing traditional PR, digital, and social media to deliver maximum performance and results.
• Promote a high-performance and continuous improvement culture that values learning and a commitment to quality.
• Manage, mentor, and develop staff using a supportive and collaborative approach consistently.
• Monitor staff performance and development goals, assign accountabilities, set objectives, establish priorities, and conduct annual performance reviews.
• Represent Highwire and key clients at high-level industry events, seminars, and conferences as required to maintain professional development and to build networking and new business contacts.

Position requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, marketing, science or related field
• Minimum 13 years experience in communications either in-house or with an agency with at least five years in a senior leadership capacity. 
• Extensive experience leading strategic communication strategies within the healthcare, medtech, pharma, digital health and life sciences fields.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing strategic growth plans through business development, full cycle new biz pitch leadership, and overarching growth strategy across target health markets.  
• Experience with social media influencer engagement, content campaigns, and media coverage amplification
• Demonstrated experience and leadership in managing comprehensive, insights-driven communications campaigns across channels that advance an organization’s mission and goals
• Innovative thinker, with a track record for translating strategic thinking into action plans and output
• Experience in building, managing, mentoring, and coaching a team of communications specialists
• Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills
• Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs
• Experience setting up measurement programs and measuring the ongoing ROI of communications activities

Highwire Perks Include:

• Competitive salary
• Merit-based bonuses and promotions
• Hybrid work model to suit your schedule and lifestyle
• Excellent vacation policy including extended break for summer and winter holiday
• Participate in Empower Hours on Fridays; Team has the ability to log off by 3pm
• 401K Match
• Medical and dental benefits/ FSA
• Paid Parental Leave
• Commuter Benefit
• Home office equipment stipend
• Growth Mindset Stipend of $100 annually for books, exhibitions, etc.
• Technology reimbursement
• Wellness benefit
• Donation Match
• Mentorship
• Monthly recognition programs
• Employee referral bonus
• New business referral bonus
• Quarterly Highwire fun events – Thanksgiving is our favorite holiday
• Dog-friendly work environment
• Extremely supportive, nurturing environment with many opportunities for learning and growth