Account Director

Los Angeles, CA (On-site)

$115K/yr – $135K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 6 days ago

Job Summary

Own and oversee healthcare PR programs for pharmaceutical and health clients, managing day-to-day client liaison, multi-workstream campaigns, and team development while maintaining account profitability.

  • Lead client relationships and collaborate with senior teams on strategy and measurement.
  • Develop plans, messaging, data/regulatory milestones, crisis comms, and integrated media to protect reputation.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • As an Account Director, you will be responsible for managing client and inter-agency relationships, playing a critical role in elevating the long-term success of our Health practice.
  • You will serve as the day-to-day client liaison, responsible for partnering with senior team members to supervise major pieces of business across several work streams.
  • In this role, you will be working on developing and overseeing annual plans, key messages, communications for data and regulatory milestones, communications for unbranded/brand-supportive programs, reputation management, executive thought leadership, crisis communications, and integrated media strategies to protect and drive corporate reputation and value proposition narratives for pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and health association clients and prospects.
  • We’re looking for someone with a passion for healthcare communications who understands product portfolios and pipelines as much as disease awareness communications.
  • This individual must be an excellent people leader and client counselor, with a willingness and drive to roll up their sleeves and stay close to the work.
  • - Day-to-day client support and counsel
  • - Driving communications support around branded and brand supportive campaigns
  • - Working with several specialists including media, digital and creative
  • - Working with senior counselors on strategy and measurement
  • - Mentor, coach and support team members ensuring constant development of their skills

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Communications, Public Relations or related field
  • At least 7 years’ PR/communications experience, preferably with corporate experience and/or healthcare experience

Benefits

  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k (with employer match)
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • Juice Money - $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
  • MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
  • Short-Term Disability
  • Paid Employee Family Leave
  • Family Building Benefit
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Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

Founded in 2001
New York, NY, US
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