Associate Partner, Arc Bio Communications

A highly experienced healthcare communications leader with a minimum of 10‑12 years of experience in strategic healthcare communications, medical communications and/or scientific communications. Ideally with strong consultancy/agency experience.

• Client Service: Builds and owns a portfolio of business, leads day‑to‑day strategy and direction, and develops industry‑leading scientific, creative and/or commercial communication strategies and programmes. Maintains excellent relationships with clients, provides ongoing consultation and counsel on a peer‑to‑peer basis, and provides strategic guidance to C‑suite and senior leadership teams within pharma and biotechs.
• Business Growth: Consistently grows existing portfolio organically through high‑quality work, identifies new work of high strategic value, leverages a strong professional network for business development, and brings in new opportunities to convert to client workstreams. Attends and contributes to industry events and meetings, representing Arc Bio as a brand.
• Project Management: Accountable for high‑level project planning and management, budgetary control and resourcing, effective delegation and prioritisation within project teams, provides project management guidance and training, and sets highest standards for quality, originality, strategic thinking and detail accuracy. Supports teams through project or client challenges.
• Leadership: Demonstrates strong leadership capability with executive presence, develops others, provides tailored feedback, embraces feedback for change, generates buy‑in, listens openly, recognizes contributions, ensures consistent decisions, takes accountability for the team, drives communication between teams and the client, and contributes to the development of Arc Bio alongside Partners/Managing Partners. Champions the Arc Bio culture.
• Communication and Impact: Proven ability to present at senior stakeholder and industry levels, demonstrates thought leadership at client portfolio or practice domain level, influences, negotiates and overcomes objections from senior stakeholders, and adapts communication style for different audiences.
• Technical Ability and Skills: Keeps up to date with factors influencing the pharma and biotech sectors, including M&A activity, corporate innovation strategy and industry head‑and‑tailwinds. Maintains strong current knowledge of industry opportunities and developments, and applies findings to draw conclusions, formulate actions and exploit opportunities relevant to the Arc Bio business. Strong working knowledge of the science covering clients’ areas of focus. Capable of constructively challenging client thinking on a peer‑to‑peer level, producing novel scientific strategic points of view. Aware of latest announcements from key congresses, experts and trends, and considers their impact on communication strategy recommendations. Confidence in discussing strategy in reference to client goals and objectives. Understands and applies theoretical approaches and models used in strategy consulting, and integrates them into client challenges. Requires command of at least three of the listed technical areas at Associate Partner level and above.

Minimum qualifications include a proven track record in healthcare communications and a strategic, business‑driven mindset in a senior leadership role.