Account Director / Senior Account Director - Medical Communications

Company: Fishawack Communications Ltd.
Location: Manchester
Posted on: September 13, 2020

Job Description:

Account Director / Senior Account Director - Medical Communications Manchester, United Kingdom

Full Time

Senior

Account Director / Senior Account Director

Location: Manchester, Knutsford, London, Oxford, Brighton or remote (depending on experience)

Reports to : Client Service Director

Who are the Fishawack?

Fishawack Health, an independent, full-service, global healthcare communications group with over 850 medical experts, marketing professionals and strategic specialists. We are bound by our beliefs, connected through our culture and fearlessly move forward with purpose.

Established in 2001, Fishawack Health is a dynamic healthcare communications companies with teams across the UK, US, India, Portugal and Switzerland. Our reputation is built on excellence and creativity, bound by a common philosophy and a commitment to providing premium communications services tailored to meet the individual needs of our clients across the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries. Our mission is to improve outcomes for patients through the communication and application of healthcare knowledge. As our success continues to grow so does our need for talented individuals.

About the role

The Fishawack Account Director (AD) / Senior Account Director (SAD) is responsible for the overall health of an account and includes strategically developing existing accounts to their full potential through relationship building with clients and supporting the delivery team to ensure that we achieve excellence in the services that we offer, to budget, schedule and agreed specification.

Main responsibilities

Client Management - Developing strong client relationships, and developing and maintaining a client engagement plan

Strategic & Commercial - Providing ‘added value’ at the account and deliverable level

Account Team Leadership - Motivating internal team, instilling project ownership and ensuring smooth running of accounts

Business Development - Identifying account opportunities and making recommendations to the client

Financial / KPI Accountability - Achieving financial and account recovery rate targets

About you

Ideally 5 years+ in medical writing/editorial position or 7 years+ in account/project management position, preferably in healthcare

or pharmaceutical environment

We offer a creative, supportive environment with a uniquely diverse career structure where you will be able to continuously develop. Our STEPS training programme – Supporting Training, Enhancing Professional Development – provides a broad range of training delivered in-house and on-line, and supplements on-the-job training/project team-led training initiatives. We also offer a generous company pension, private medical insurance plus many other excellent employee benefits.

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