Health Lead

At Edelman Health we are on a mission to help the worlds largest pharmaceutical companies and healthcare brands build and safeguard trust with an ever-growing audience of stakeholders, and show how their complex products deliver the thing we all value most - life. The Health Team at Edelman strategically partner with clients to deliver global, regional and local integrated campaigns for disease awareness, medical education, patient and employee engagement, digital communications, and much more! Championing diverse skills, backgrounds and specialisms in our team is the key to our success, and it is this EMEA collective of 80 brilliant PR, medical and scientific communications professionals that has helped make us an award winning agency! This year we collected a Gold Cannes Lion in the Healthcare sector for our work, See My Skin, for Vaseline. Successfully winning new business, growing accounts and diversifying our portfolio, our Spain team are now seeking a leader whose role will be to expand our work in integrated communications and marketing with health clients – primarily large pharmaceutical clients.

The Role With a focus on business development, your job will be to grow and lead clients with revenues of £1-5m, and drive forwards integrated solutions with leaders within each discipline to find the most effective creative solutions. Orchestrating and overseeing highly strategic work to deliver success through ideas that are insight driven, earned in their origination and stand out in the market.
You will have a highly entrepreneurial mindset, demonstrating leadership, initiative and creativity and able to take calculated risks whilst embracing the realities of operating in a fast-paced, ever-changing and sometimes uncertain landscape. As the Health Lead, your primary responsibility will be to lead and mentor matrixed teams and have the knowledge to provide strategic business and communications’ counsel to senior clients within existing and prospective businesses. Reporting to the MD, success in this role is demonstrated through evolving the work offered by Edelman, building our reputation for delivering best-in-class pharmaceutical marketing work and growing a solid base of these clients.
So, if you are looking to take your career in Health PR to the next level and work with some of the best in the industry, gaining exposure to some of the biggest accounts in the business, keep reading, this role could be for you... Responsibilities and Skills

• Collaboration - working in collaboration with integrated team members from planning, creative, medical writing and digital services
• Integrated marketing – Specifically having demonstrable global/regional and UK expertise in successfully harnessing the value of influence for world-famous health brands, within the earned, paid and owned environment
• Entrepreneurial mindset – Demonstrably embracing new innovations, technologies, and practices to deliver stand-out results
• Brand strategy-development – Driving award-winning campaigns for large pharmaceutical companies
• Digital/social influencer strategy and programme execution – High quality oversight and impeccable client-servicing
• HCP and patient audience understanding – Strong audience journey and touchpoint understanding combined with scientific fluency
• Team leader – Experienced in working well in a highly matrixed organization
• New business development – Leading teams to deliver success in this area
• Global client management – Delivering success for brands with a global footprint
• Deadline-Driven and goal-oriented – Working in a very fast-paced environment

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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).
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