Director, Value Communications at HEOR | Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK

HEOR

Director, Value Communications

Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own and advance the HEOR value communications function, aligning strategy, scientific storytelling, and delivery to drive client outcomes and growth across proposals, delivery, and leadership engagement.

Lead strategy and pipeline management to sustain growth, profitability, and trusted client relationships.
Oversee the development of high-quality value communications with rigorous science and clear commercial framing.
Mentor a high-performing writing team, expanding capability and driving thought leadership in methodological and market innovations.

Job Description

Drive business growth through proactive strategy development and strong pipeline management
Lead and oversee proposals, ensuring compelling, high-quality responses with strong scientific narratives and appropriate commercial framing
Build long-term client partnerships and play a senior role across key accounts
Represent the business externally through conferences, client meetings, and industry engagement
Contribute to the evolution and innovation of our HEOR and value communications offering, particularly in scientific storytelling and evidence communication
Partner with the creative director to ensure integrated, high-impact communication approaches that combine robust science with effective creative execution
Hold accountability for P&L within your function, ensuring sustainable growth and cost control
Oversee project delivery to ensure quality, timelines, and budgets are consistently met
Maintain visibility of pipeline and resourcing, anticipating challenges and enabling smooth delivery
Champion best practice, quality standards, and continuous improvement across all outputs

Extensive experience delivering value communication and medical writing materials, ensuring strategic alignment, scientific rigor, and high-quality execution
Proven experience leading medical writing/value communication teams in a consultancy or commercial research environment
Strong commercial acumen, including P&L responsibility and pipeline management
A track record of winning business, developing proposals, and building trusted client relationships
The ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on oversight of delivery
Confident leadership style, with the ability to inspire, mentor, and guide diverse technical team
Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence both internally and externally
A higher degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant technical discipline
A strong understanding of market dynamics, client needs, and industry trends

Location preferences and restricted details not provided

A ‘learning’ culture focused on personal development and supported by study bursaries
Workplace pension scheme
Range of high street, supermarket, restaurant, gym membership, holiday and entertainment discounts via Pluxee
Employee assistance programme
Employees are given an additional day of leave for: their wedding and moving house
Annual leave purchase scheme of up to 10 additional days’ leave per year

HEOR

4.1 Glassdoor

Established in 2011, HEOR is a leading independent market access consultancy with a reputation for high-quality, innovative market access strategies, evidence generation and value communications. We are a team of over 90 consulting and research professionals based in the UK and Germany and our expertise spans market access strategy, health economics, health technology assessments, pricing and reimbursement, data science and analytics, systematic literature reviews, evidence generation, medical writing, stakeholder engagement and value communication. We have a global presence and work across the UK, Europe, US, Canada, Asia-Pacific and the Middle East to provide a fully integrated market access service across the product life-cycle.HEOR Ltd acts as a trusted partner to the world’s major pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical companies. Our clients value our flexibility, integrity to scientific principles and best practice and our ethos of true partnership, where our track record speaks to deep and continuing client collaborations, across all disease areas and service offerings.

Founded in 2011

Cardiff, Wales, GBR

142 employees (29 in marketing)

www.heor.co.uk

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