Account Director

This position can be based remotely (working from home) or at our headquarters in Stamford, CT. 

About Lockwood: Lockwood collaborates with clients in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries to identify effective, holistic, science-based strategies to address their objectives through market access communications. Our clients count on us to challenge their assumptions and help them creatively navigate around obstacles. From strategy through execution, we focus on accuracy, transparency, and scientific value to create programs that are evidence-based, clinically relevant, and contribute to the development of our clients’ brands. Over a third of our staff hold advanced scientific, pharmacy, or medical degrees, and most work from where they live. Because our flexible structure provides better work-life balance, we attract the best talent, facilitate their best work, and as a result, are more responsive to our clients, wherever and whenever they do business.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary client partner to understand specifics of client asks and communicate clearly back to the team
• Day to day execution and project oversight, including but not limited to ensuring project briefs are on strategy with measurable objectives for success and facilitating and pushing for creative deliverables that achieve brand goals and demonstrate agency excellence.
• Managing finances across accounts
• Thinking beyond the project, identifying proactive recommendations from client considerations
• Lead majority of client meetings
• Understanding the brand both clinically as well as market access challenges
• Collaborate within your team to motivate and drive work forward
• Work with your team to determine appropriate resources to bring forward to the client to ensure optimal client experience from both execution as well as agency expertise
• Connect to senior management with ongoing client, brand and team updates
• Uphold the Company Values in all decisions and interactions

Education:

• College Degree, preferably in marketing, advertising, communications or science/medicine

Professional Skills and Requirements:

• 4-8 years of Market Access Agency or comparable experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Well-developed knowledge of business practices/vendor relations
• Maturity to handle independent client contact
• Understanding of therapeutic categories/disease states
• Ability to train staff preferred but not required

This position can be performed remotely in all but the following locations: Colorado, New York City, San Francisco County, CA.