Practice Lead, Medical and Scientific Communications

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Practice Lead, Medical and Scientific Communications

Role focus: Lead a specialized medical and scientific communications practice with accountability for client relationships, growth, business development, operational alignment, and people leadership.

Description

Lead a specialized healthcare communications practice focused on scientific credibility, stakeholder engagement, medical communications expertise, and technology-enabled delivery. Build a differentiated, scalable offering and work across teams to expand client impact, support responsible adoption of new ways of working, and improve delivery effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Lead a specialized medical and scientific communications business with accountability for clients, revenue, growth, delivery excellence, and people.
• Drive sustainable practice growth through client retention, organic account expansion, and new-business development.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and actively participate in strategic client engagements.
• Develop account growth plans and ensure teams identify and pursue opportunities across existing client relationships.
• Lead new-business efforts in partnership with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Connect medical and scientific communications offerings with relevant data, technology, analytics, and broader organizational capabilities to create differentiated client solutions.
• Develop and scale a unified market proposition and approach to client delivery that reflects scientific, strategic, creative, and technology-enabled capabilities.
• Establish disciplined business planning, performance tracking, and forecasting processes to identify risks and opportunities early.
• Partner with operational leadership to align staffing, delivery capacity, and projected client demand.
• Support workflow improvements that enable efficient, high-quality delivery across teams and locations.
• Champion responsible adoption of technology-enabled tools and more efficient, insight-informed ways of working.
• Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing team while maintaining a collaborative, inclusive, and client-focused culture.
• Communicate business priorities clearly and guide employees through growth, transformation, and organizational change.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leadership experience in healthcare communications, HCP engagement, medical communications, pharmaceutical marketing, or a related agency environment.
• Demonstrated success leading and growing a business, portfolio, or client group of comparable scale.
• Proven ability to expand existing client relationships and win new business.
• Strong senior-level client presence and ability to build trusted, long-term relationships.
• Experience selling integrated solutions that may include communications, content, data, technology, analytics, or related capabilities.
• Remote eligibility: candidates must reside in the same country where the job is located.

Benefits

• Potential base pay range (annualized): $159,300.00 - $443,600.00 (varies based on qualifications, location, and schedule).
• Incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered depending on the position.
• Health and welfare and/or other benefits may be offered.