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About the Role
Serve as a senior communications advisor and media strategist, shaping earned media strategies to build reputation, create cultural relevance, and deliver measurable impact for healthcare clients. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in developing and executing successful earned media campaigns, cultivating strong media relationships, and guiding clients through complex communications challenges. This role requires a deep understanding of the regulated healthcare landscape, sharp editorial judgment, an entrepreneurial spirit, and the ability to transform scientific, corporate, and brand stories into compelling media opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Lead earned-media strategy for major healthcare accounts, translating business, brand, and communications objectives into distinctive, newsworthy programs.
- Provide strategic earned media counsel to clients and agency teams, offering clear recommendations on narrative, timing, spokesperson strategy, channel selection, and reputational considerations.
- Develop compelling story platforms, media angles, messaging, and pitch strategies grounded in audience insight, the news cycle, and the competitive landscape.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with health, business, consumer, trade, and other influential media, matching stories and spokespeople to outlets for maximum impact.
- Oversee proactive and reactive media engagement, including announcements, thought leadership, executive visibility, issues management, and rapid-response opportunities.
- Prepare executives and subject-matter experts for interviews through message development, briefing materials, media training, and real-time counsel.
- Identify organic growth and new business opportunities, contributing media strategy, insights, and storytelling to pitches and proposals.
Requirements
- 8-10 years of relevant public relations and media relations experience, including healthcare communications.
- 5+ years of supervisory experience.
- Demonstrated record of securing high-impact earned media and leading successful programs across corporate, brand, disease-awareness, executive visibility, or issues-oriented communications.
- Deep understanding of the regulated healthcare marketplace and its implications for media strategy, scientific storytelling, and external communications.
- Strong relationships with journalists and editors across healthcare, business, consumer, and trade media, with the judgment to identify the right outlet and reporter for each story.
- Exceptional news judgment and the ability to simplify complex scientific, clinical, and business information accurately and credibly.
- Experience counseling senior executives and preparing spokespeople for media interviews, high-visibility moments, and challenging questions.
- Digital fluency and a strong understanding of the current fragmented media ecosystem, including how earned media integrates with social, influencer, paid, and owned channels.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong project management, counseling, people management, and business development skills.
Skills
- Media Relations
- Public Relations
- Healthcare Communications
- Earned Media Strategy
- Media Strategy
- Storytelling
- Journalist Relations
- Executive Counseling
- Message Development
- Media Training
- Issues Management
- Digital Fluency
- Project Management
- People Management
- Business Development
Experience Level
- 8-10 years of relevant public relations and media relations experience
- 5+ years supervisory experience
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000—$230,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
About the Company
- OGILVY HEALTH: WE INSPIRE PEOPLE AND BRANDS TO IMPACT THE WORLD. Guided by this vision, Ogilvy Health, part of WPP, combines borderless creativity, scientific precision and cultural fluency to build healthcare’s most influential movements. We drive measurable impact and category-defining growth for brands ready to shape what’s next. Our approach is powered by fearless creativity that dares to be different, sparks emotional connections, and inspires action, ensuring cultural resonance. Scientific precision translates complex data into stories that resonate, while our impact-obsessed mindset focuses on delivering real-world outcomes.
- WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
- At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression. We believe in building powerful teams with purpose – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality. Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.
Equal Opportunity
- Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
- We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
- If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com.