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| Job Description |
Title: Healthcare Associate Director (Possibilty of Director Level for right candidate)
Reason for Recruiting:
Creation of new role
Location: London
Sector: Working on OTC PR campaigns for pharmaceutical companies you will be required to mentor junior staff, add strategic direction to the business and drive growth
Overview:
Lexis Health was launched in 2003. It is now a team of 6 working across a range of consumer health clients. The core competencies of the division are consumer/OTC healthcare. The division has 4 main retained clients: Actavis, Alcon, Boots and Galderma, but handles project work across many healthcare disciplines including awareness campaigns for ethical clients, healthcare campaigns for FMCG brands and nutritional programmes for clients in the food arena. The division has their own specific clients but increasingly works with the consumer and corporate divisions of the company to deliver complete programmes.
Portfolio:
Alcon - Eyecare products including Systane, ICaps and Replenish
Boots - , Actavis, Galderma, Hellmans. Lipotrim, Minute Maid.
Role:
To collaboratively lead a section of business taking responsibility for it's progress and development including growth/efficiency targets, people performance and financial performance.
Responsibilities:
" Evolving the direction, vision and values of Lexis
" Seeking and winning new business
" Living and communicating the direction, vision and values
" Driving individual and joint elements of the business plan
" Client handling
" Resource handling
" People handling
Core Competencies
Technical competencies
- Financial management, setting/running budgets, maintaining profitability
- Relationship management of clients, suppliers, teams, and groups
within the agency and within the industry
- Entrepreneurial skills to devise, plan, drive and achieve business development and growth
- PR best practice: programmes, creativity, process, evaluation, standards, development, commercial acumen
- Business planning/resource management systems and resources for the best outcome
- Knowledge and experience of 'non-traditional' techniques such as events, digital and stunts
Behavioural competencies
- Analytical skills, alert to signals in the market or from clients re. opportunities and threats
- People management skills, consistently managing to motivate, inspire, coach and develop
- Conviction, to motivate and drive new business / client programmes to the highest standards
- Judgement, to make sound decisions about people, structures, systems and resources
- Communication skill, to build and maintain relationships with clients at the highest level
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| Person Profile |
Person Specification:
We are looking for an experienced agency Associate Director with a consumer healthcare brand communications background. To succeed in this role your natural ability and passion for motivating, inspiring and nurturing teams needs to be second to none. You will be able to confidently grow existing clients and win new business and drive the success of the division.
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