Who we are

Langland, a Publicis Health company, is the only health communications agency that thinks further across Clinical Trial Experience, Medical Strategy & Education, Public Relations & Policy, and Advertising, to create unique value with visionary clients.

What we believe

Health brings us together. In the diseases we suffer, the medicines we create, and the causes we champion, health shows us our collective humanity. When we break the barriers that divide us, when we think further, we can create healthier futures, together.

A passion for craft

Having expert thinking is only part of our story. To ensure excellence in everything we make, we have centred our disciplines around three essential crafts: science, strategy and creativity.

Are you up for a challenge? We are looking for someone who thinks with their heart and their head. Someone who is passionate about healthcare and public relations and someone who is committed to doing the right thing by the clients, brands, and companies.

We are seeking an Associate Director to join our brilliant team with a lot of autonomy in this position. You'll be expected to lead, develop, and build client relationships within client organizations to increase visibility of your comms client while accessing the broader marketing teams to demonstrate the strategic value we bring to our client partnerships.

As an Associate Director, you'll lead and mentor our hungry and committed talent to retain the low turnover and high staff engagement we're so proud of and help our team do the best work of their careers! You'll also be part of the Langland PRP management team, as well as joining larger network management discussions where appropriate.

As the successful candidate, you will be responsible for a chunk of our revenue/forecast, contributing to business development opportunities and taking a key role in pitch and proposal development.

We want someone who is not satisfied with OK and wants to change how we all look at the healthcare world. Experience is important but attitude is everything.

Requirements:

• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the client's business and actively seek opportunities for further account development
• Demonstrate the ability to integrate emerging technologies into client recommendations
• Serve as the strategic oversight to both agency team and to the client
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of healthcare industry business trends and advocate best practice
• Build and maintain relationships with assigned clients and seek opportunities to strengthen/build new relationships with the extended client team
• Seek opportunities to showcase our work among current/prospective clients
• Seek opportunities to grow current accounts and new accounts connected with that client
• Demonstrate expert presentation skills
• Demonstrate the ability to adapt to various client corporate cultures
• Approach the brand from holistic marketing perspective (where possible) - looking across the media/channel landscape (channel neutral) and develop outcomes that meet client objectives
• Be responsible for overseeing and guiding brand/comms strategy and tactics
• Will be alert to changes in clients' marketplace and sought out as a strategic leader by the team
• Maintain and drive collaboration among third-party partners (within or external to Publicis Health and the Publicis Group)
• Know overall performance at a given point in time throughout the year
• Understand the agency revenue and profitability model (e.g. in-sourcing vs. freelance)
• Monitor fee performance to encourage/ensure account profitability
• Prepares and presents account forecasts and keeps an accurate record of time spent on client work via timesheets to enable us to attain the client's percentage billable target
• Seek to optimize both the agency services and internal resources
• Provide strong leadership - effectively directing team members to accomplish desired goals
• A mentor that the wider team looks up to proving them with direction from your wealth of experience
• Manage and resolve employee issues including employee performance
• Establish agency brand priorities contribute to agency interaction goals
• Support the strategic direction and desired culture of the agency
• Recruit, promote roles and network for possible candidates.
• Manage the account team and client expectations to ensure a positive and productive atmosphere.
• Be transparent in communication with manager and agency executives
• Solve client issues, independently moderating conflicts with significant complexity and political sensitivity

It's an exciting role within a close-knit team, and there are plenty of avenues for future personal and professional development that you can explore within the wider Publicis Health network. If you are passionate about healthcare and public relations, and think with your heart and your head, we'd love to hear from you!

·       You’ll have proven experience in a senior account director or associate director role in a pharma PR environment

·       Pharmaceutical client experience is a must and you should have a strong grasp of this industry

·       You’ll have demonstrable skills of working on a variety of global/regional/UK projects, and multiple accounts

·       You’ll have experience of managing all sizes of team, as well as being able to effectively manage relationships with senior management

·       You will have exceptionally strong verbal and written communication skills and be seen as a credible ‘voice’ to both clients and internal stakeholders alike

An inclusive workplace

The more diverse our team, the more imaginative, intelligent and inspirational our culture and our work will become. Here are some of the ways we help promote diversity at Publicis Health.

Recruitment

·       Diversity & Inclusion management

·       Mandatory unconscious bias training

·       Career and school programmes to build industry access for people from mixed socio-economic backgrounds

Culture

·       Support communities for women, LGBTQ+, BAME, Disabled employees and their allies

·       A wellbeing programme which includes free HeadSpace membership.

Future

·       CSR is central to our ethos and work moving forwards

Publicis Groupe has committed €45 million to diversity, inclusion and social injustice within the network As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Groupe UK is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process. If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.