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About the Role

Ruder Finn is seeking a Vice President, Healthcare, to lead a major pharmaceutical account in the diabetes space. This individual will oversee an integrated program spanning earned media, influencer programming, patient and stakeholder engagement, events, and other communications initiatives. The Vice President will set the communications strategy, provide senior client counsel, and lead high-impact programs that advance business objectives and strengthen the brand’s reputation. This individual will serve as a day-to-day leader for a multidisciplinary account team, ensuring excellence in client service, strategic thinking and program execution. The ideal candidate is a strong communications strategist with deep pharmaceutical industry experience, an extensive understanding of the media landscape and a proven track record of delivering integrated communications programs that drive meaningful business results. As a Vice President, you will be responsible for managing account performance, fostering strong client relationships, identifying growth opportunities, and mentoring team members while helping to shape the future of one of the agency's most important client partnerships.

Responsibilities

Serve as a senior day-to-day client lead and trusted strategic advisor for a flagship pharmaceutical account, providing counsel on corporate communications, media relations, community engagement initiatives, announcements, and reputation-building initiatives.
Develop and oversee comprehensive and innovative integrated communications strategies, programs, campaign recommendations, and budgets that align with client business objectives and support key corporate and brand priorities.
Oversee multiple projects and workstreams from planning through execution, anticipating challenges, troubleshooting issues, proposing solutions, and ensuring deadlines are met and budgets are effectively managed.
Lead and evolve proactive earned media programs, including patient and community storytelling, local media outreach surrounding events, and strategic announcements.
Oversee the planning and execution of high-profile community events, stakeholder and patient advocacy group engagements, and targeted healthcare professional forums, ensuring alignment with broader communications and business objectives.
Provide thoughtful client counsel and recommendations that reflect an understanding of client priorities, the healthcare landscape, and communications best practices.
Demonstrate strong knowledge of the client’s business, including competitors, product landscapes, public opinion and market trends, influencers, media dynamics, policy developments, and other factors that may affect communications strategy.
Apply innovative thinking to generate new approaches, alternative strategies, and creative program ideas.
Identify potential issues early, elevate challenges with recommended solutions, and know when to seek additional senior counsel.
Ensure strong quality control across client materials, reviewing for accuracy, strategic alignment, clarity, and polish, while ensuring high-quality, error-free work is delivered on time.
Maintain a high level of responsiveness and communicate with clients, supervisors, and account teams in a clear, timely, and solutions-oriented manner.
Manage, mentor, and develop junior and mid-level talent, aligning roles with individual strengths and development needs and promoting collaboration across digital, creative, analytics, and account management.
Serve as a role model for junior team members and delegate effectively by setting clear expectations, deadlines, context, and measures of success.
Build and maintain strong relationships with client stakeholders and external partners while serving as a senior representative of the agency.
Manage overall account performance and financials, including budgets, staffing, forecasting, profitability, and client service.
Identify opportunities to grow existing business and contribute to new business development efforts across the practice.
Stay ahead of healthcare, pharmaceutical, policy, and media landscape trends to help guide client strategy and uncover emerging opportunities.

Requirements

8-10 years of experience in public relations, strategic communications or corporate affairs, with significant pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare communications experience.
Demonstrated success leading large, complex client relationships and integrated communications programs.
Deep expertise in earned media strategy and corporate reputation management.
Experience managing conferences, events, stakeholder engagements and high-profile communications initiatives.
Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, and client counseling skills.
Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, lead teams and drive projects from strategy through execution.
Experience managing budgets, account profitability and resource planning.
Strong leadership skills with a demonstrated commitment to mentoring and developing talent.

Skills

Public Relations
Strategic Communications
Corporate Affairs
Pharmaceutical Communications
Biotechnology Communications
Healthcare Communications
Earned Media Strategy
Corporate Reputation Management
Event Management
Stakeholder Engagement
Client Counseling
Team Leadership
Project Management
Budget Management
Mentoring Talent

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Full-time
Hybrid

Experience Level

Vice President
8-10 years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing or a related field.

Salary/Compensations

$120,000 – $145,000

Benefits

Competitive base salary and bonus opportunity
Health, Dental, Vision insurance
Company paid Life Insurance
Flexible Spending Account
401k with match
Monthly allowance for cell phone, office equipment, etc.
Generous PTO policy
Paid maternity/paternity leave
Transit benefits
Professional learning and development opportunities
Workplace flexibility
On-site and off-site social gatherings

About the Company

Ruder Finn is a global company.

Equal Opportunity

Ruder Finn provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Ruder Finn will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Ruder Finn believes that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.