Ruder Finn

Strategy

• Lead strategic planning across a portfolio of healthcare clients, serving as a senior advisor on creating insights and strategies that lead to creative concepting, ideation and integrated solutions
• Utilize our agency’s planning framework across all clients and new business opportunities to drive the development of strategic brand communications plans
• Develop insight-driven communications strategies that align with client business priorities and lead to the development of innovative, culturally and audience-grounded creative programs
• Translate market dynamics, stakeholder research, cultural trends, competitive intelligence, and audience insights into actionable communications recommendations
• Partner closely with account, creative, digital, and analytics teams to ensure strategic consistency across all client deliverables
• Drive research briefs with analytics team and develop creative briefs for creative teams
• Lead strategic workshops, messaging sessions, positioning exercises, and brand narrative development with clients and cross-functional teams
• Develop messaging architectures, audience segmentation strategies, communications platforms, campaign frameworks, and measurement approaches
• Identify emerging trends across healthcare, AI, technology, media, and culture that can inform innovative client strategies
• Provide strategic counsel during product launches, data milestones, regulatory events, issues management, and corporate reputation initiatives
• Elevate strategic thinking and creativity across the healthcare practice by mentoring teams on planning methodologies, storytelling, and insight development
• Play a leadership role in business development by developing strategic approaches, leading discovery sessions, contributing to pitch narratives, and presenting to prospective clients
• Collaborate with senior leadership to identify opportunities for client growth, new service offerings, and innovation across the healthcare portfolio
• Champion the use of AI, analytics, research, and emerging technologies to strengthen strategic planning and improve client outcomes

Health Strategy Lead, Healthcare

Medical Director

• Develop strategic social content plans and communications programs for healthcare and pharmaceutical brands, building content and channel recommendations driven by data
• Serve as a channel strategist across social platforms, developing platform-specific recommendations that align content, audience behavior, campaign objectives, and best practices
• Lead social strategy and content development, ensuring alignment with broader healthcare communications programs while identifying opportunities to uplevel storytelling across digital platforms
• Guide the development of social-first content, including platform-native concepts, editorial calendars, campaign messaging, and content recommendations tailored to audience behavior and channel best practices
• Partner with creative, paid media, analytics, and healthcare communications teams to uplevel social content and ensure cohesive execution across digital channels and platforms
• Serve as a key client contact and social strategy expert, helping clients strengthen their understanding of social platforms, content trends, and digital best practices
• Support the operational performance of accounts, ensuring high-quality deliverables, adherence to deadlines, and thoughtful budget management
• Deliver superior client service by aligning social and digital objectives with senior management direction, providing clear updates on project timelines, and ensuring seamless coordination across internal teams and external stakeholders
• Mentor and develop junior team members, fostering expertise in social strategy, content planning, platform trends, and integrated digital campaign execution
• Review and analyze social and campaign performance to develop client-facing reports, identify actionable insights, and recommend optimizations that enhance content effectiveness, client reputation, and strategic impact
• Partner with external vendors, when needed, to support digital reputation management, issues response, and high-impact crisis communications strategies

Director, Healthcare Social & Influencer Strategy

Vice President

• Serve as the day-to-day lead for healthcare clients, managing strategy, planning and execution
• Oversee multiple projects and workstreams from planning through execution
• Contribute significantly to the development of comprehensive and innovative integrated communications programs and campaign recommendations
• Provide an excellent level of client service by delivering projects on time and that are high quality
• Manage, mentor, and develop junior and mid-level talent
• Provide thoughtful client counsel and recommendations
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of clients’ businesses
• Apply innovative thinking to generate new approaches and creative program ideas
• Identify potential issues early and elevate challenges with recommended solutions
• Lead the development of core communications materials
• Ensure strong quality control across client materials
• Maintain a high level of responsiveness and communicate with clients
• Motivate team members to work together toward shared objectives
• Convey ideas clearly and confidently in client meetings and presentations
• Build program budgets and support forecasting

Vice President, Healthcare

Account Manager

• Work with senior account leads to manage day-to-day activities
• Ensure client’s objectives and strategic vision are being met
• Oversee multiple projects for multiple clients from conception to completion
• Anticipate challenges, troubleshoot problems, proposing solutions, offering client counsel
• Contribute significantly to the research, planning, and development of campaigns
• Understanding when to elevate problems to senior team members along with proposed solutions
• Lead the development of core materials like media strategy, press releases, and social media content
• Ensure quality control of all communications/content
• Show a high level of responsiveness and communicate with clients clearly
• Adapt communication style according to the audience
• Motivate team members to collaborate to reach shared objectives
• Convey ideas clearly and confidently in client meetings and presentations
• Provide direct, complete and actionable positive and constructive feedback to others
• Build program budgets, track finances, and create SOWs while ensuring resource alignment with client needs

Account Supervisor – Healthcare

• Serve as a day-to-day client and internal team contact, managing account activity and ensuring client objectives, priorities, and strategic vision are being advanced
• Provide thoughtful client counsel and recommendations that reflect an understanding of client priorities, the healthcare landscape, and communications best practices
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of clients’ businesses, including competitors, product landscapes, market trends, influencers, media dynamics, and factors that may impact communications strategy
• Contribute to the research, planning, and development of comprehensive, contemporary, and strategic public relations and integrated communications programs
• Apply innovative thinking to generate new, impactful, audience-focused ideas
• Identify potential issues early, elevate challenges with recommended solutions, and know when to seek senior counsel
• Lead the development of core communications materials, including media strategies, press releases, key message documents, social media content, briefing materials, communications plans, and client presentations
• Ensure strong quality control across client materials, reviewing for accuracy, strategic alignment, clarity, and polish
• Maintain a high level of responsiveness and communicate with clients, supervisors, and account teams in a clear, timely, and solutions-oriented manner
• Lead effective internal team communication, encourage collaboration, and invite ideas and creativity from junior team members
• Convey ideas clearly and confidently in client meetings and presentations
• Delegate effectively by setting clear expectations, deadlines, context, and measures of success
• Build program budgets, track finances, create SOWs, and support forecasting while ensuring resources align with client needs

Senior Account Supervisor, Healthcare

• Serve as a strategic lead across multiple client accounts, providing counsel to clients and team members, and driving account growth
• Drive corporate reputation and strategic business programs for clients in the healthcare space taking into account KPIs against business goals
• Support internal teams on writing and editorial management and creative services work to ensure high-quality deliverables to meet client needs
• Evaluate communications opportunities for senior business leaders to share the organization’s position on key topics
• Maintain a thorough understanding of clients' businesses and industries, and the industry issues that directly and indirectly affect the client
• Lead cross-functional teams (strategy, creative, content, analytics) to deliver cohesive, high-impact work across channels and touchpoints
• Lead and grow high-performing teams while mentoring and developing talent

Senior Account Supervisor, Corporate Healthcare

• Serve as a senior lead across a portfolio of technology accounts, helping shape strategic direction and ensuring high-quality program execution
• Advise clients across enterprise software, artificial intelligence, cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, cybersecurity, data and analytics, compliance technology, developer tools, and emerging technology categories
• Provide executive-level counsel on messaging, positioning, reputation management, thought leadership, media strategy, and issues response
• Develop and oversee integrated communications programs spanning earned, owned, social, and executive communications initiatives
• Translate complex B2B technology concepts into clear, compelling, and business-relevant stories for relevant audiences
• Act as a trusted advisor and senior client contact, building strong relationships that drive client satisfaction, retention, and growth
• Maintain a deep understanding of clients’ businesses, industries, competitors, and the market forces shaping their sectors
• Lead strategic media relations programs that secure impactful coverage across top-tier business, technology, trade, and industry media
• Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, analysts, influencers, and key voices across the tech ecosystem
• Mentor and support account teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, accountability, and growth
• Serve as a strategic resource and subject matter expert for colleagues across the agency
• Contribute to team development through coaching, collaboration, and knowledge sharing
• Partner cross-functionally with integrated teams across sectors and disciplines to deliver cohesive client programs
• Play a key role in new business development, including pitch strategy, proposal development, and client presentations
• Contribute to agency growth by identifying opportunities to introduce clients to new capabilities and expanded services
• Support agency marketing initiatives, including case studies, thought leadership, speaking engagements, and award submissions
• Build and maintain a strong network of industry contacts and participate in relevant professional organizations and events
• Identify and support opportunities for organic growth across existing accounts

Group Vice President, Technology

• Lead earned media strategy for your portfolio, developing angles, driving pitches, and delivering coverage that actually moves the needle for clients
• Serve as the daily client contact and strategic lead
• Coach your team to pitch constantly and confidently to journalists, producers, editors, podcasters, Substack authors, and bloggers
• Develop creative story angles and pivot quickly when the news cycle shifts
• Build and nurture a robust network of media contacts across consumer lifestyle, parenting, food, wellness, and broadcast verticals
• Manage, mentor, and develop junior team members
• Contribute meaningfully to new business
• Collaborate with internal creative, strategy, and account teams