Strategy Director

About Avalere Health

Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.

Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen.

Location: London, Old St

About the role

Key responsibilities:

* Driving and realising strategic excellence

* Adds value by using/developing behavioural/psychological models and approaches

* Seen as a consultant partner by key clients

You will be responsible for driving strategic excellence within the Avalere Health Global Marketing capability and will report into Global Marketing Head of Strategy based in our London office. You will act as strategic counsel for key accounts with the support of the strategy practice and expected to bring to bear your considerable experience in communications strategy to impact all aspects of the business.

What you’ll do

• Co-creates the communication strategy for a given disease area or brand campaign/initiative. This includes exploring market potential as well as setting the developing positioning and messaging frameworks with an ability to translate into creative briefs.
• Researches, analyses and combines clinical, scientific and market data, qualitative research and scientific/product knowledge to enable the wider agency team to produce innovative ideas that will reach healthcare professionals.
• Provides a social science/psychology/behavioural science perspective working confidently with theoretical concepts in the behavioural science space to develop customer focussed solutions
• Holds key client and external expert relationships based on the strength of scientific insight and strategic counsel; liaises with clients to identify specific business problems and develop ideas.
• Communicates (often by presenting) to clients and agency staff at all levels and through a variety of different experiences from meetings to workshops etc
• Supports the senior leadership team in identifying and meeting business objectives.
• Builds confidence, internally and externally, in the agency’s strategic services.
• Leads pitches, creating quality responses to client briefs.
• Enhances and supports strong strategic thinking within the capability including mentoring colleagues.
• Leads by example in quality of work, business growth and attitude.
• Works with other team leads to create well-functioning synergies and collaboration between teams.

About you

• Confident in working with ‘the science’, marketplace understanding, social/behavioural science expertise and significant agency experience in delivering strategic recommendations
• Social Science MSc/PhD preferred
• Significant experience of working within the agency setting to deliver strategy to top pharmaceutical companies
• Deep understanding of the global pharmaceutical marketplace
• Collaborator and team player
• Great communicator (verbal and written communication)
• Interested in advances in data science and technology
• Passionate about driving better health for more people

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits.

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