Director, Value Communications

Cardiff, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead and scale the value communications function, shaping scientific storytelling, client wins, and sustainable growth through high-quality proposals, partnerships, and cross-functional delivery.

  • Grow and mentor a high-performing writing/value communications team delivering scientifically rigorous materials with commercial framing.
  • Own key client relationships, proposals, and external representation to win business and shape account direction.
  • Oversee project delivery, budgets, and pipeline visibility while driving quality, continuous improvement, and hands-on delivery oversight.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Shape client work and future direction, leading growth of the value communications function
  • Develop and inspire a high-performing writing/value communications team
  • Oversee proposals with strong scientific narratives and appropriate commercial framing
  • Build long-term client partnerships and manage key accounts
  • Represent the business externally at conferences, client meetings, and industry events
  • Collaborate with the creative director to deliver integrated, high-impact scientific storytelling
  • Hold accountability for P&L and drive sustainable growth
  • Oversee project delivery for quality, timelines, and budgets
  • Maintain pipeline visibility and resource planning
  • Champion best practice, quality standards, and continuous improvement

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Requirements

  • 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 teams
  • 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

Benefits

  • 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
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HEOR

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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)
73% recommend to a friend

Traffic Signals

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1.1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
61.2%
Direct
26.3%
Referral
7.2%
Social
4.1%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~134

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
23 (16% of company)