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Associate Director - Healthcare & Life Sciences at Adelphi Group

Associate Director - Healthcare & Life Sciences

Adelphi Group · London, United Kingdom

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Associate Director - Healthcare & Life Sciences

Adelphi Group · London, United Kingdom

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About the Role

This position is central to a growing healthcare media offering, focusing on diverse areas of health communications. It blends strategic account management with earned media expertise to lead high-impact projects like corporate thought leadership, executive visibility, and disease awareness campaigns.

Responsibilities

  • Provide lead counsel, strategic advice, and insights into industry developments to ensure world-class healthcare communications services.
  • Offer earned media counsel for corporate thought leadership, brand storytelling, disease awareness, health technology, data milestones, congress activity, and senior executive visibility.
  • Collaborate with the media specialist community to identify strong stories, refine media angles, develop journalist strategies, and integrate external media insights into client programs.
  • Support story mining across accounts, identifying media opportunities from scientific, corporate, technological, or patient-focused material.
  • Actively identify and convert organic growth opportunities and support new business pitches.
  • Implement new approaches to meet client needs by leveraging FH’s capabilities and the OMC network.
  • Represent FH at meetings with senior clients, stakeholders, and colleagues, providing consultancy in trending healthcare categories.
  • Identify and participate in external thought leadership opportunities to promote agency expertise.
  • Ensure the financial health of allocated accounts, identifying operational issues and proposing solutions.
  • Meet revenue, utilization, and efficiency targets.
  • Foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture with a sense of belonging for every team member.
  • Grow, attract, and retain talent through feedback and coaching for junior team members.
  • Support and communicate clear, progressive direction.
  • Role model team values such as respect, curiosity, and courage, embracing challenges and continuous learning.

Requirements

  • Strong agency experience in pharmaceutical and/or health-tech communications.
  • Excellent client handling skills with the ability to distill complexity into compelling narratives.
  • Earned media expertise, including strategy, press material development, journalist liaison, and advising clients on key news moments.
  • Proven experience driving integrated, multi-channel, multi-stakeholder campaigns.
  • Content creation and editing expertise, with a critical eye for reviewing communications materials.
  • Financial, resourcing, team, and line management expertise, with solid project management capability.
  • Ability to actively identify and deliver organic growth opportunities.
  • A collaborative mindset with a track record of mentoring and inspiring teams.
  • Champion inclusion, feedback, and professional development.
  • Right to work in the UK.
  • Able to work in the Bankside office at least 3 days per week.

Skills

  • Strategic counsel
  • Earned media expertise
  • Story mining
  • Client relationship management
  • Content creation
  • Content editing
  • Financial management
  • Resourcing management
  • Team management
  • Line management
  • Project management
  • Organic growth identification
  • Mentoring
  • Team inspiration
  • Inclusion
  • Feedback
  • Professional development

Location

  • Bankside office

Work Type

  • Hybrid
  • Full-time

Experience Level

  • Agency experience

Benefits

  • A warm and friendly team with a fantastic portfolio of global and UK clients
  • A truly global network, the opportunity to be part of multi-market campaigns
  • Global mobility, with opportunities for short-term or permanent exchange
  • A strengths-based L&D framework with an in-house coach and development opportunities
  • Hybrid and flexible working
  • Work-life balance support
  • Culture Club activities
  • Opportunities to join Employee Resource Groups, the Shadow Board or DE&I Steering committee
  • A Career Guardian Scheme for underrepresented talent
  • Mentorship opportunities
  • Pro-bono comms
  • Volunteer opportunities
  • Personal charity matching
  • 30 days of holiday plus a day off on your birthday
  • All days between Christmas and New Year off
  • Holiday buy-back scheme
  • 6-12 week sabbaticals
  • BUPA medical cover (including 24/7 virtual GP, funded eye tests, fertility, and menopause support)
  • Permanent Health Insurance
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
  • Generous Pension contributions
  • Personal finance clinics
  • Life Assurance
  • Discounted gym membership
  • FHeel Well reimbursement
  • Cycle2Work scheme
  • Season ticket loans
  • Generous parental leave
  • Emergency childcare provision
  • Passion Project Grants
  • Retail, dinner or spa vouchers for key milestones
  • Omnicom employee discounts

About the Company

  • FleishmanHillard is an award-winning global agency named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year and Best Places to Work.
  • Recognized as a “Standout Agency” on Advertising Age’s A-List.
  • Awarded NAFE’s “Top 50 Companies for Executive Women” for six consecutive years.
  • Received 5 Lions at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity.
  • Committed to creating an inclusive and equitable working environment.
  • The only PR Agency awarded EY’s National Equality Standard (twice!).
  • Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week.
  • Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent and building inclusive teams.

Equal Opportunity

  • All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.
  • Do let us know if you need any adjustments made during the interview process.