The Fix are helping on of their long standing medical communications agencies find a new and excited Account Manager. One with a med comms background and a scientific mind. You wont need to have a science degree but be able to talk the scientific language with your pharma clients. You will manage the planning and delivery of account activities and programmes to meet client objectives, ensuring quality delivery on budget, on schedule. To contribute to the growth of the account, with support. To maximise financial control of programmes. The perfect account manager for this one will ofcourse be from a med comms background and lead delivery of projects. Takes responsibility to deliver multiple projects on brief, on time and on budget. Responsibilities Creates working project plans to ensure timely delivery. Ensures agency and client standards/compliance processes are consistently observed. Can develop/critique briefs, presentations, copy, consistent with project objectives. Understands programme and account KPIs and ensures individual project objectives support these. Inputs into what is feasible in terms of deadlines and budgets. Identifies potential issues in project delivery and develops contingency plans with support. Provide input to the account and its growth. Awareness of how individual projects fit into the bigger picture/account. Understands the product/brand strategy and how a med comms strategy can support it and is able to contribute to internal brainstorms on the account. Understands the disease area, key brand data and competitor landscape to brief KOLs, writers/editorial team, freelancers and suppliers so that compelling content is created to meet the brand objectives. With support, contributes to the growth of the account through proactive suggestion of ideas and solutions that will help the client achieve objectives. Ensures estimates for new projects are comprehensive and accurate, using learnings from previous projects to improve accuracy. Ensures specifications are in place for all projects, signed off by clients and regularly reviewed to identify any scope creep. Proactively identifies over/underspends with recommended solutions. Leads work getting done through others. Delegates work appropriately to the right people (up and down). Identifies pressure points and recommends/ensures that the necessary resources are in place including editorial support and freelancers Is trusted by the client as the main day to day contact for programme delivery, ensuring appropriate and effective communication via the channels available. Identifies potential issues, ensures they are passed up to senior colleagues and recommends solutions, helping to resolve, with support. Proactively looks at how we add value for the client. Can engage with KOLs appropriately, and with support, can brief them in line with programme objectives and manage their expectations.