Project Associate (Medico-MarComm)

• Proactive in developing and maintaining a close and productive relationship with key client contacts, always acting with integrity and including the Team Lead in communications as appropriate.

• Develops a thorough understanding of the clients business and be proactive in maintaining and sharing your knowledge of the industry in which they operate.

• Ensures client requests are dealt with promptly and developed into internal briefs by you and your team, distinguishing between a good and poor client brief and proactively ensuring clarity on agreed actions.

• Ensures to gain client sign-off at the relevant project stages, involving the Team Lead when appropriate.

• Ensures the work that you send to the client and that of anyone you oversee, is completed in a timely fashion and is of the upmost quality, with high levels of accuracy, attention to detail and relevance to brief. Before a project leaves the agency, ensures that all mandatory requirements have been considered and acted upon to gain sign off by the relevant Team Lead and client.

• Identifies and solves problems as they arise, appreciating when it is appropriate to involve or notify the Team Lead.

• Checks contact reports of key meetings and telephone conversations prepared by your team, ensuring these are issued to the client within 24-48 hours.

• Proactively manages jobs and the Schedule, to ensure that they are scheduled on time, to budget and are monitored using appropriate administration procedures.

• Supports those overseen in the prioritization of their tasks, in line with the wider Account Handling Team’s activity and objectives, to ensure team deadlines are met. Where necessary, proactively liaises with the Team Lead to ensure priorities are aligned.

• Ensures research and background information is prepared the team, for briefs / pitches / presentations as appropriate. Demonstrates capability in contributing to such meetings as needed.

• Works with a multi-disciplinary team, developing strong working relationships with the Design and Content Team to ensure they can add value and client requirements are managed to realistic timescales and associated budgets are appropriate. Oversees this activity within your team, as necessary.

• Proactive in identifying and progressing new business opportunities

• Proactively manages the maintenance of job records.

• Produces accurate and timely invoices, proactively dealing with any billing or financial queries as appropriate.

• Mentors New Team Members in managing project finances appropriately.

Experience: Min 1 - 3 years’ experience

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree / Master’s Degree in any Pharma / Lifesciences/ Science related field.

• Excellent verbal and written skills (English).

• Good organizational, interpersonal, and team skills.

• Ability to deliver results under pressure.

• Goal oriented, self-motivated; able to work independently but within a team environment.

Desired Skills/Experience:

• A good understanding of the healthcare market, challenges, growth prospects and healthcare delivery operations.

• Able to work independently, initiate their own projects as needed to streamline their workload, understand the business process and work in a team environment.

• Capacity to manage multiple projects with tight deadlines; working after hours, if needed, to meet project deadlines.

• Comprehensive understanding of English grammar and punctuation.

• Should be extremely detail oriented.

• Ability to manage and prioritize several tasks and requests simultaneously.