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At Edelman, we understand diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) transform our colleagues, our company, our clients, and our communities. We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging.
The Team
At Edelman Health we are on a mission to help the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies and healthcare brands build and safeguard trust with an ever-growing audience of stakeholders, and show how their complex products deliver the thing we all value most - life.
The Health Team at Edelman strategically partner with clients to deliver global, regional and local integrated campaigns for disease awareness, medical education, patient and employee engagement, digital communications, data and regulatory milestones and much more! Championing diverse skills, backgrounds and specialisms in our team is the key to our success, and it is this EMEA collective of 130brilliant PR, medical and scientific communications professionals that has helped make us an award winning agency! This year, among the 16 trophies won at Cannes Lions 2024 by Edelman, our Health team collected a Silver Cannes Lion in the Health and Wellness category for their work Allegra Airways, executed for the the global Sanofi account. Successfully diversifying and winning new business as well as growing accounts, our team are now looking for passionate PR professionals to join Edelman Health. So, if you are looking to take your career in Health PR to the next level and collaborate with some of the best in the industry, gaining exposure to some of the biggest accounts in the business, keep reading, this role could be for you...
The Role
This is an opportunity for a seasoned professional to focus on an established global pharmaceutical client leading, mentoring and managing a highly integrated and diverse team across multiple geographies. The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing and nurturing both brand and above brand work, counselling clients to help them achieve their communication and business objectives and ensuring that we’re bringing the best of Edelman to deliver high quality work, and excellence in project implementation.
Success in this role is demonstrated through evolving the work offered by Edelman, building our reputation for delivering best-in-class pharmaceutical communications work, bringing innovation and fresh thinking through specific briefs but also proactively against commercial priorities.
As a Director and a member of the London Health team, you will be responsible for securing, maintaining and growing business. You will provide senior strategic counsel and guidance to clients on achieving communications and business objectives, lead and manage teams, as well as oversee the development and delivery of high-quality integrated communications programs.
You are a strong leader and have a highly entrepreneurial mindset, working as part of the Health Brands senior leadership team to support the aims of the department/team and taking on key departmental tasks.
Experience and skills required for this role:
- Deep experience and track record working with the pharmaceutical industry, as well as understanding of the regulatory and compliance environment, data milestones, health equity and access, etc.
- Previous experience leading global large communications programmes and proven ability to build campaigns and programmes that come to life across owned, earned and paid.
- Practical understanding of the media relations within the sector and strong ability to direct and oversee the delivery of sharp content within the regulatory constraints and tailored to a wide range of audiences (medical and general population).
People management:
- Experience in working well in a highly matrixed organisation, siding with the senior management team and working collaboratively to deliver company priorities.
- Superb people management skills, motivating and coaching large account teams in devising and managing projects.
- Career-pathing development and line-management experience.
Strategic counsel:
- Experience working with research, strategy and creative teams to ensure insights and analytics are at the core of all the work.
- Demonstrate deep sector and client business knowledge within pharmaceutical communications to deliver high-value strategic client counsel that yields consistently high scores in client satisfaction.
- High quality oversight and impeccable client-servicing.
Business development:
- Hunter mentality with ability to spot and unlock organic growth opportunities within existing client relationships.
- Drive effective, high quality, collaborative responses to RFPs and other briefs, and be able to demonstrate ability to pitch and win business.
- Understand different pricing structures and how they work.
Operations:
- Collaborate with senior members of the London Health team to ensure optimal team design and structure across teams for both high quality delivery and efficiency.
- Deep finance, including scoping, forecasting and capacity planning understanding.
Benefits
Our benefits and policies are designed to ensure our employees feel comfortable, inspired and equipped to thrive and do their best work. We offer a wide range of benefits across health, family, community, finance and time away including:
- Competitive Annual Holiday plus an additional days holiday for your birthday and 3 days over the festive season.
- Flexible working - Hybrid working policy and 30 days work from anywhere worldwide!
- Financial Wellbeing - Pension plan, income protection, and life insurance at 4x annual salary.
- Building a Family - Whether it’s maternity leave, adoptive leave or shared parental leave, take up to five months on full company pay. We also celebrate the arrival of your child or wedding day by offering a company child & wedding gift. In addition Edelman partners with Peppy, a specialist healthcare and wellbeing service that provides all employees with access to expert pregnancy and parenthood, menopause and fertility support.
- Health and Wellbeing – Access to Private Medical Insurance, Digital GP and wellbeing program, Cycle to Work Scheme, subsidised corporate gym membership, a Quit Smoking Scheme, Annual flu vaccinations and 24/7 access to trained professionals in relation to a range of issues, in absolute confidence.
- Personal and Professional Development- Clear progression routes and continuous training/professional development via Edelman Learning Institute
- Community – Get to know your colleagues and unwind at our weekly staff get together. We also encourage everyone to take part in our Citizenship Activities where you can spend a day each year helping a charitable cause, paid for by us.
Our Values
Core to our culture are our
values, which guide our behavior, support a client-centric approach, influence the way we work with each other, our clients and the community, and inspire great work.
- The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence: Bringing the best of ourselves and partners to our clients.
- The Freedom to be Constantly Curious: Tenacious, flexible and thorough approach that drives creativity and growth for clients and ourselves.
- The Courage to do the Right Thing: Trusted and resilient partner, committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce, that prioritizes the wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues.
- The Commitment to Positively Impact Society: Performing our work with an environmental conscience, and a sense of tolerance, fairness and equality.
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We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
