It's not every day we have a chance to make the world a healthier place—but here, it’s our way of life. Idealistic? Maybe. Deeply pragmatic? Always. Real Chemistry is a global health innovation company that has carved out its space at the intersection between healthcare, marketing and communications, tech, and the people at the heart of it all. It’s with a great sense of purpose that we work together with brave health and wellness companies to create and inspire healthier, happier, and longer lives. It’s our passion. And if you’re still reading, we’re guessing it might be yours too. We are looking to add to our alchemic mix of more than 2,000 talented professionals. At Real Chemistry, we don’t just wish the world was healthier. We leverage tech, data and creativity to make it so. You in?
Job Summary:
As an Account Associate you are learning how our business works, and you are the ‘go-to’ person on your team for getting things done. You have a strong focus on day-to-day project management and are learning to understand and appreciate the core skills that will enable you to develop effective client relationships. You are efficient, reliable, and learning to work under pressure.
Responsibilities:
Client delivery
1. Be the ‘go-to’ person on your team for completing tasks, identify tasks you can take on and proactively offer your support
2. Take ownership of meetings (internal and external) ensuring: relevant team members are available; they have everything they need to run it (status reports, agendas, etc.); the necessary logistics are in place (room bookings, etc.)
3. Be responsible for driving and managing updates to the status report, ensuring it is regularly updated and internally reviewed prior to client calls and tracking the status of projects
4. Capture accurate minutes from meetings (internal and external), ensuring all internal actions are completed according to the timelines
5. Prepare timelines prior to the commencement of each project (prepared in consultation with relevant team members)
6. Begin to build relationships with your clients, through regular contact (calls/emails)
7. Manage external suppliers on client projects, ensuring they deliver to budget and timelines
8. Organise logistics for small to medium sized external meetings/events, ensuring that costs are aligned with the budget
9. Ensure professional contact with KOLs when undertaking key tasks (e.g. booking travel)
10. Start to build your knowledge of your client’s strategy by staying on top of all emails and saving down files appropriately
11. Tailor your communication to your team members’ ways of working (i.e. Teams vs. emailing, identifying the most appropriate person to respond to questions)
12. Actively participate in the briefing process when you’re being assigned work – arrange the meeting, do any pre-reading, interrogate the brief to confirm your understanding of the project, deadlines and budget
Core skills
13. Maintain an awareness of your time and deliverables, thinking ahead to plan and prioritise your work effectively, regularly updating your teams on progress and any challenges (share solutions with your team as soon as they arise)
14. Gain proficiency on VVPM, uploading, tagging and managing items for approval
15. Focus on attention to detail and develop a full understanding of what ‘client ready’ means – reflect this in your work generally, and particularly for externally-facing outputs
16. Gain experience in referencing and proofing accurately
17. Develop written materials following a detailed brief, which may include story flows/drafts/amendments/referencing, and manage internal review timings
Personal development
18. Buddy new AA starters, sharing your insights and experiences to support their professional development
19. Ask questions in a structured way (i.e. accumulating questions and organising a meeting with the relevant person to discuss)
20. Seek feedback and proactively feedback to improve individual and team performance
Financial management
21. Develop a clear understanding of the relevant RC financial processes (e.g. raising job codes, purchase orders, managing Salesforce opportunities, requesting time moves, etc.) and support your account teams as required
22. Begin to draft budgets, talking your account lead through your rationale
23. Complete your timesheets and expense claims accurately and on time
Agency environment
24. Immerse yourself in the medical communications and pharma industries, your clients’ companies and therapy areas: engage with every opportunity to establish an awareness of developments, innovations and trends. Look for opportunities to reflect these in your work and flag your ideas to your teams and wider team to raise your internal profile
25. Familiarise yourself with the ABPI Code of Practice and ensure that your work is always compliant
Required skills and experience:
26. Highly organised with a mindfulness of deadlines, the ability to manage multiple tasks based on priorities and a strong attention to detail
27. Independent thinker confident in taking ownership of assets and material development, but a team player who enjoys collaboration
28. Performs tasks with a sense of urgency and has the confidence to communicate with managers when deadlines will not be met or when issues are foreseeable
29. Strong written and oral communication and presentations skills
30. Open minded and eager to learn – the more you put in, the more you get out!
31. High energy, able to effectively operate in fast-paced, growing and evolving environment
Working with HART: Since the pandemic, we have adapted to how our people told us they want to work. We have offices in cities with many employees and clients – New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Manchester, UK and London, UK – that serve as hubs where and when they need us, and we encourage employees who live less than a 45-minute commute of a Real Chemistry office to go in at least two days per week. Outside of these offices, we have regions, where people work remotely but come together quarterly for collaboration, culture and learning opportunities. We call this our Hybrid and Regional Teams approach. Real Chemistry believes we are best together – and our workplace strategy fosters connection and collaboration in person – but also supports flexibility for our people.
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