Practice Lead, Medical and Scientific Communications

Boston, MA (Remote)

$159K/yr – $444K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Job Summary

Own and scale a specialized medical and scientific communications practice by leading client growth, delivery excellence, and people leadership across IQVIA Health Communications Group.

  • Establish growth and retention across clients and manage new-business development.
  • Build trusted senior-level relationships and guide strategic client engagements.
  • Align delivery with data, technology, and analytics to differentiate solutions.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead a specialized medical and scientific communications business within IQVIA Health Communications Group, 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 IQVIA Health Communications Group’s breadth of 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.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of 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 the ability to build trusted, long-term relationships.
  • Experience selling integrated solutions that may include communications, content, data, technology, analytics, or related capabilities.
  • Please note: To be eligible for this remote position, candidates must reside in the same country where the job is located.
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IQVIA (NYSE:IQV) is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. IQVIA’s portfolio of solutions are powered by IQVIA Connected IntelligenceTM to deliver actionable insights and services built on high-quality health data, Healthcare-grade AITM, advanced analytics, the latest technologies and extensive domain expertise. With approximately 88,000 employees in over 100 countries, including experts in healthcare, life sciences, data science, technology and operational excellence, IQVIA is dedicated to accelerating the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide.IQVIA is a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. The company uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes. IQVIA’s insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific progress, in an effort to advance healthcare. To learn more, visit www.iqvia.com.

Founded in 1998
Durham, North Carolina, USA
80K employees (2,139 in marketing)
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$159K/yr – $444K/yr

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