Responsibilities

• Act as the primary strategic counselor for complex portfolio, franchise, and product communications engagements, advising senior client stakeholders on positioning, priorities, and integrated communications decisions.
• Set the strategic vision for communications programs spanning clinical development, regulatory milestones, data readouts, and commercialization—ensuring clarity, consistency, and business relevance across moments.
• Seamlessly navigate between long-range strategy and real-time advisory support, ensuring execution aligns to strategic intent and meets the highest quality standards.
• Lead the development of persuasive, high-level communications plans (annual, quarterly, and milestone-driven), translating business and scientific strategy into clear narratives and activation pathways.
• Identify growth opportunities within existing accounts and across the firm, contributing to new business development, expanded scopes, and broader client partnerships.
• Own senior client relationships, building trust through sound judgment, proactive guidance, and a deep understanding of client organizations, challenges, and decision dynamics.
• Partner closely with internal and shared-service leaders (e.g., paid media, digital, creative, clinical trial excellence) to deliver integrated solutions and grow multidisciplinary accounts.
• Provide executive oversight of account operations, including staffing models, workflows, and financial performance; accountable for budget management, resourcing, and profitable growth.
• Ensure teams deliver thoughtful, timely, and strategic work—setting clear standards, providing course correction when needed, and elevating the overall quality of client service.
• Directly mentor and develop senior and mid-level talent, fostering strategic thinking, ownership, and leadership capability while building a high-performance, learning-oriented culture.

Requirements

• Minimum of 12+ years life science/pharma PR experience, agency preferred
• Experience with late-stage clinical programs as well as global and U.S. commercial launches
• Knowledge of regulatory processes, advisory committees, data and regulatory milestones, congress strategy, KOL and patient communications activations
• Prior experience working in oncology is required
• Exceptional writing, editing, and client-facing skills
• Highly organized, proactive, with an entrepreneurial mindset and commitment to client confidentiality
• Oversight of websites, graphics, and core communications assets
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Benefits

• All positions are remote friendly. At Spectrum, you choose where you work. We are a hybrid work environment with options to work in one of our three offices (D.C., New York, and Chicago), remotely from anywhere in the United States, or a combination.
• No matter where you work, you’ll benefit from the monthly cell phone reimbursement.
• Flexible time off. Take the time you need in addition to company holidays, voting time, jury duty and bereavement. We also offer a Sabbatical Program after 7 years of service.
• 13 weeks paid Parental Leave, inclusive of adoption and foster care placement.
• Continuous learning and development through Greatest Potential Self (proprietary talent program), tuition reimbursement programs, and in-house 1:1 coaching with access to talent and productivity-based assessments.
• Bring your friends to work at Spectrum and earn a generous referral bonus.
• Medical concierge service to assist with scheduling appointments, finding care, estimating and resolving claim issues, etc.
• Thorough onboarding including accessible conversations with leadership.
• 401k with company match and 1:1 Financial Coaching and Education.
• Wellness benefits including medical, dental, vision, as well as science-backed meditation and mindfulness tools through Headspace.