Client Services Director - Promotional Medical Education (Medical Communications)

Chicago, IL (Remote)

$180K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own strategic medical communications programs for large, global accounts, guiding clients from tactical delivery to consultancy-led engagement and shaping long‑term value.

  • Growth & Strategy: Shape and evolve account strategies, guiding complex medical communications across marketing, medical education, and medical affairs.
  • Client Advisory & Engagement: Act as a trusted consultant on scientific exchange, publications, congress strategy, and digital engagement to drive value.
  • Team & Commercial Leadership: Build high‑performing account teams, forecast and plan for growth, and embed best practices across programs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Provide senior strategic oversight across large, complex or global medical communications programmes (marketing, promotional medical education and medical affairs).
  • Ensure alignment between client objectives, delivery models, and commercial outcomes to maximise long‑term value.
  • Identify opportunities to enhance innovation, efficiency, cross-functional integration, and new service offerings.
  • Serve as a trusted consultant to clients on scientific exchange, medical education, publications, congress strategy, and digital engagement.
  • Maintain a strong “big picture” view of account health—anticipating risks, challenges, and delivery needs before they arise.
  • Act as a senior escalation point for internal teams and client partners.
  • Shape and evolve account strategies, supporting the shift from tactical delivery to strategic consultancy-led engagement.
  • Contribute to forecasting, account planning, and commercial optimisation to drive sustainable growth.
  • Build and mentor high-performing account teams—coaching emerging leaders and senior account managers to strengthen strategic and commercial capability.
  • Embed best practices that enhance quality, consistency, scalability, and collaboration across programmes.

Requirements

  • Ideally 10+ years’ experience in medical communications, healthcare communications, or life‑sciences agency environments.
  • Experience delivering across Healthcare Marketing, Promotional Medical Education and Medical Affairs projects with understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements.
  • Proven experience leading complex, multidisciplinary scientific communication programmes.
  • Strong track record in organic account growth, proposal development, or new business initiatives.
  • Confident advising on and delivering integrated engagement models, including scientific exchange, education, congress strategy, digital solutions, and omnichannel approaches.
  • Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence, challenge, and build trust with senior client stakeholders.
  • Strategic thinker with strong commercial acumen, understanding value creation, margin, scope, and negotiation dynamics.
  • Demonstrated leadership capability—experienced in coaching, developing, and empowering teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; life sciences, healthcare, or business-related disciplines preferred.
  • Location: Flexible, hybrid and/or remote.

Preferred

  • Bachelor’s degree preferred in life sciences, healthcare, or business-related disciplines there is a stated preference
  • Experience delivering across Healthcare Marketing, Promotional Medical Education and Medical Affairs projects with understanding of regulatory frameworks and compliance requirements (as a plus)
  • Demonstrated leadership capability—coaching, developing, and empowering teams (preferred)

Benefits

  • 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested)
  • life insurance
  • disability coverage
  • medical, dental, and vision plans
  • flexible working arrangements (hybrid and remote)
  • two weeks each year to work from anywhere across the globe
  • 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day
  • 9 public holidays
  • gifted end-of-year holidays
  • early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August
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