Account Director - Medical Communications

A leading medical communications agency have an opportunity for an Account Director to join its team in either London or Cheshire.

Position Summary:

Responsible for the provision of highly specialist consulting services to clients using high level of scientific and commercial expertise.

Responsibilities:

Client Contact / Professional Relations:

• Develops and maintains professional relations with key international contacts and medical opinion leaders

Project Management:

• Contributes to the development of strategic and tactical marketing activities
• Responsible for keeping abreast of key scientific and marketing information in the industry and therapy area
• Ensures the overall delivery and implementation of projects to the highest quality, in line with the project brief and the allocated budget
• Experienced in managing complex projects, ensuring they are of a high quality and meet timelines and the client brief
• Coordinate and manage project teams including staff and personnel from other divisions to ensure the efficient and timely completion of projects
• Organise meetings as necessary with account management team to update client on progress
• Monitors and manages the team to ensure delivery of projects to timescales, quality and within budget
• Attend conferences, scientific symposia, and advisory boards
• Participate in on-site activities as deemed appropriate (e.g. front-of-house duties, printing and duplicating slide-sets, running pre-meeting slide review with client or key opinion leaders)

Financial:

• Overall responsibility for project finance and ensures delivery of projects to budgets
• Responsible for accurate input of all hours worked onto timesheets on a daily basis

Business Development:

• Conduct market analysis in order to identify new business opportunities
• Identify new business opportunities both with existing and new clients
• Develop and participate in new business presentations
• Develop full proposals and estimates for final approval by the Client Services Director
• Provides strategic scientific and marketing advice to client in order to develop new, original and innovative business ideas to meet clients'''' needs

Management:

• Manages, motivates and develops junior members of the Account team
• Follows up with project team members on given assignments and provide feedback on completed tasks

Education and Work Experience:

• A life sciences degree or PhD plus ideally experience in a medical communications agency or pharmaceutical environment
• Experience and knowledge of a broad range of therapy areas
• General computer literacy required with intermediate use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.

Package:

An excellent salary and benefits package is offered. For more information call Jon Gawley on 01932 797996 or email jon.gawley@id-ss.com