Job Order: 5560
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Account Executive
Location: North Carolina
Company Summary:
A dynamic, full-service healthcare communications agency
Description:
Position Summary:
The AE serves as the client’s primary day-to-day contact for requests from the agency. The AE is primarily responsible for the initiation and execution of projects for the client.
Position Requirements:
- Bachelor degree (minimum), preferably in the health sciences, marketing, or communications field
- 2-3 years of pharmaceutical and/or agency experience
- Willing to travel (~10%-20%)
- Willing to work extra hours to meet impending deadlines
- Working knowledge of pharmaceutical industry
- Superior oral and written communications skills
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Ability to manage numerous projects, requests, and responsibilities
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Ability to monitor competitor and industry development
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail, and follow-through
- Basic understanding of marketing principals
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Client management
- Supports AS and AD in cultivating and building solid relationships with clients
- Assists AS and AD in developing communication (publication, advocacy development, and medical education) plans
- Schedules and prepares materials for client meetings
- Documents client contacts (via e-mail), requests (change orders), and meetings (conference reports) concisely and accurately
- Prepares and sends materials to clients and authors/speakers
- Researches and recommends (with AS/AD approval) journals and conferences
- Submits abstracts/manuscripts and follows up on acceptance
- Performs research as directed by AS/AD
- Project management
- Opens and closes jobs
- Builds, maintains, and drives timelines—projects must be on time
- Works closely with operations department to develop cost estimates prior to project initiation and routinely review estimate as project progresses
- Alerts AS/AD when job may exceed estimate—projects must be on budget
- Reviews monthly billing with AS/AD
- Maintains status report, including timelines
- Maintains electronic and hard-copy job folders based on established procedures
- Manages multiple priorities
- Responsible for fiscal management of assigned accounts, including budget development and management
- Monitors overall account status and development
- Ensures quality control of all projects prior to presentation to client
- Creative and scientific output
- Provides client/brand backgrounder approved by AS/AD for new clients prior to project kickoff meeting
- Provides creative/scientific team with complete briefing document, which has been approved by AS/AD
- Reviews with AS/AD creative and scientific output to ensure it is on strategy, on message, and clearly exceeds client’s expectations
- New business
- Assists with research as directed by AS/AD
- Assists AS/AD in proposal development
- Prepares materials for presentations
- Coordinates pre- and post-mailings
- Personnel management
- Trains and supervises JAE
- Identifies and provides developmental opportunities for JAE
