Public Relations Assistant – Contract
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Public Relations Vice President, Health
Highwire PR
full-time
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Location: 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Highwire sets the standard for high-impact communications and marketing for global technology and healthcare companies, connecting reputation to revenue.
- Building a healthcare powerhouse and looking for a leader to grow the practice and expand footprint across healthcare.
- Public Relations Vice President, Health Practice — leadership role at an award-winning communications and digital marketing agency.
- Lead the health practice, serve as strategic partner to clients, build long-term client relationships, and drive new business.
- Coach teams, mentor staff, manage budgets, oversee staffing and ensure high-quality work.
- Lead integrated multi-channel programs utilizing PR, digital, and social media.
- Represent Highwire at industry events and contribute to agency culture and professional development.
Requirements
- Minimum 10 years experience in communications, ideally both agency and in-house
- Extensive experience leading strategic communication strategies within the healthcare, medtech, health systems, pharma, and/or life sciences fields
- Strong experience in pharma, biotech and/or life sciences preferred
- Demonstrated experience leading or participating in new business efforts - including targeted outreach, proposal development and pitching
- Experience with integrated programs spanning digital, editorial and media relations
- Innovative thinker, with a track record for translating strategic thinking into action plans and output and experience using data and insights to craft strategic campaigns
- Significant experience providing communications counsel to executives and senior marketers and communicators
- Track record of delivering standout creative communications campaigns within regulated markets
- Business acumen in the areas of budgeting, billing and staffing
- Experience in building, managing, mentoring, and coaching communications managers and specialists
- Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to make decisions in a changing environment and anticipate future needs
- Experience setting up measurement programs and measuring the ongoing ROI of communications activities
