VP, MedComms

Company Description

EVERSANA INTOUCH is a leading full-service, global healthcare agency serving the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. We provide next-generation creative and media services, enterprise solutions and data analytics services for clients. We combine the power of world-class creative and digital teams with deep market access, payer, and healthcare communications expertise to provide innovative solutions to life science companies that want to connect with consumers, healthcare professionals, and payers.

Job Description

As a VP, MedComms, your role is to provide strategic guidance in developing, delivering and leading tactical integrated marketing plans and other complex projects for clients. In this role you are an extension of the client team and as the day-to-day relationship lead, addressing concerns while identifying incremental opportunities. You are also accountable for assuring you engage appropriate EVERSANA experts both in medical communications and across areas of specialization to counsel your clients on effective strategy based on research and best practices to meet their objectives. In this position you own the book of business and business growth efforts. Internally, you organize, grow, and develop the team, while externally ensuring the health of the client relationship within and beyond the assigned brand team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Medical Communications services delivered in Europe.
• Participate in vision setting for the client business, ensuring that you and the broader team execute it through day-to-day delivery of work.
• Work closely with both the Eversana-Intouch Healthware strategic leadership and US medical communications colleagues to deliver best-in-class and regionally appropriate services and solutions.
• Establish cross-collaboration with internal teams and agency partners, and foster sound relationships internally.
• Work closely with BD leadership in Europe to represent MedComms offerings for new business.
• Externally, ensure health in the client relationship in and beyond the assigned medical communications (medical affairs or medical education promo team).
• Provide clients with research, analytical metrics, and strategic insight to facilitate recommendations for effective solutions.
• Oversee the delivery and financial impact on budget, and brand target goals and objectives with the client.
• Provide strategic leadership for yearly brand planning.
• Ultimately accountable to the senior level client in partnership with Eversana-Intouch management working together to maintain relationships and address needs, concerns and escalation as necessary.
• Oversee and lead the development of the entire campaign from start-up to project plans.
• Research, develop and collaborate with Account Directors, agency departments and partners to continuously develop the integrated solutions offering from EVERSANA INTOUCH.

MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Strong and applied understanding of operational delivery of compliant medical communications solutions in Europe.
• Strong experience in medical communications supporting medical affairs and/or medical education pharma clients.
• Strong experience in directing content development efforts, HCP advocacy and peer-to-peer educational programming across channels.
• Strong strategic planning, brand planning, pharmaceutical product life cycle management and understanding of digital project development.
• Native/fluent English a must, additional languages welcome.
• Demonstrate accuracy in reviewing junior team-developed scopes.
• Demonstrate accountability for financial tracking and management of client budgets and communicating with client teams and senior leadership.
• Own and lead monthly budget reconciliation and forecasting efforts.
• Able to collaborate and effectively manage at all levels and functions internally, and externally with clients and agency partners.
• Demonstrate leadership and mentoring skills, including assisting broader account team with junior account staff team development.
• Able to create strategic and tactical recommendations decks and lead/facilitate presentations.
• Big picture thinker with an understanding of client business and long-term goals.
• Demonstrates problem solving skills.
• Exhibits leadership and strong mentoring skills.
• Demonstrates grace under pressure.
• Think critically and proactively guide the team to de-escalate and create a clear path forward.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree ideally in communication/marketing, economy, biology/pharmacy and/or another scientific pathway.
• Approximately 8-12 years of related industry experience: client-side brand team, consultative, medical communications, medical affairs or promo medical education agency or division of advertising agency and/or pharmaceutical experience.
• Expertise in digital, media and technology marketing.
• Proven results with managing scientific communications programs from scientific platform through to peer-to-peer communications.
• Proven leadership and mentoring skills (guiding a large team and multiple clients); Responsible for account staff team development.

OUR CULTURAL BELIEFS:

• Patient Minded: I act with the patient’s best interest in mind.
• Client Delight: I own every client experience and its impact on results.
• Take Action: I am empowered and hold myself accountable.
• Embrace Diversity: I create an environment of awareness and respect.
• Grow Talent: I own my development and invest in the development of others.
• Win Together: I passionately connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime to achieve results.
• Communication Matters: I speak up to create transparent, thoughtful, and timely dialogue.
• Always Innovate: I am bold and creative in everything I do.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds who share a passion for improving the lives of patients and leading innovation within the healthcare industry. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion, and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone's responsibility.