Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Client Relations: Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs and ensuring the successful delivery of communication initiatives.
• Strategic Planning: Leverage your expertise and research to develop comprehensive and innovative communications and public affairs strategies aligned with organizational goals.
• Project Oversight: Oversee and coordinate projects across a team of PR professionals, fostering a collaborative and creative work environment. This individual will manage campaign timelines and deliverables as well as manage account and financial deliverables.
• Integrated Campaign Development: Drive the development and execution of integrated communications campaigns, coordinating a seamless execution among various workstreams and subject matter experts within the Syneos network.
• Corporate Reputation and Thought Leadership: Oversee and activate on corporate and executive thought leadership opportunities, which includes development of media materials (press releases, Q&As, message documents, social media content), identifying media partnerships and conference engagements (including presentation development, talking points and event coordination) and build social media presence in collaboration with our digital and social media experts.
• Measurement and Analysis: Being able to connect impact of all efforts to key performance indicators (KPIs) and collaborate with our research and analytics experts to create measurement tools to assess the success of communication campaigns, making data-driven adjustments as needed.

Qualifications:

• Experience: 5+ years' experience in communications, PR and/or marketing, with a focus on developing and executing integrated communication plans for small, mid-size or large healthcare companies. Solid understanding of public relations best practices. Experience in public affairs and/or health policy would enhance your candidacy but is not required.
• Team Management: Proven experience coordinating high-performing teams in a fast-paced environment. Experience mentoring junior level team members to provide guidance and ensure they feel supported. Competence in project tracking and financial management of client business.
• Strategic Doer: Demonstrated ability to think strategically, offering creative solutions to achieve client objectives, and translating that into a realistic roadmap for execution. It's important that this person be a driver, is self-motivated and works collaboratively within integrated teams.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Good oral presentation skills and ability to present ideas with persuasion.
• Client-Focused: A track record of building and maintaining strong client relationships.
• Industry Knowledge: Familiarity with current industry trends and best practices in communications. Good understanding of issues currently affecting the healthcare industry. Knowledge of the healthcare media environment.
• Tech savvy: Ability to leverage Microsoft 365 apps, such as Teams, PowerPoint, Word and Excel, to drive efficiencies.

About the Syneos Corporate Affairs Practice

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $99,700 to $120,000. The base salary range represents the anticipated low and high of the Syneos Health range for this position. Actual salary will vary based on various factors such as the candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. In addition, some positions may include eligibility to earn commissions/bonus based on company and / or individual performance.

At Syneos Health, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. At times, we will consider transferable skills from previous roles. We also encourage you to join our to stay connected to additional career opportunities.

Why Syneos Health Communications? We are powered by Syneos Health, a global professional services organization designed to help the biopharmaceutical industry shorten the distance from lab to life. We have a proven pedigree in health, with industry titans in every facet of healthcare. This eliminates guesswork and fuels our passion for total, life-changing solutions. At the heart of health, we're uniquely poised to predict what's next and respond to the market's demand for smarter and faster answers. We are able to help our customers make important decisions within their business due to our unique understanding of the complexities that come along with working in the healthcare industry. Syneos Health Communications is able to make the complex, simple.

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Syneos Health companies are affirmative action/equal opportunity employers (Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled)

Syneos Health has a voluntary COVID-19 vaccination policy. We strongly encourage all employees to be fully vaccinated. Additionally, certain local governments or Syneos Health customers may have vaccine requirements that apply to some of our employees. These employees are required to submit proof of vaccination to Syneos Health and maintain compliance with these requirements.
At?Syneos Health, we believe in providing an environment and culture in which Our People can thrive, develop and advance. We reward and recognize our people by providing valuable benefits and a quality-of-life balance. The benefits for this position will include a competitive compensation package, Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision, Company match 401k, flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time. Because certain states and municipalities have regulated paid sick time requirements, eligibility for paid sick time may vary depending on where you work. Syneos Health complies with all applicable federal, state, and municipal paid sick time requirements.