Job Description
As an agency group specialising in brand promotion, disease awareness, PR, events, social media, digital engagement, and medical communication, we are undergoing a significant transformation.
We aim to be recognised internationally for our award-winning ideas. Our success will be pivotal in enhancing the reputation and growth of the Havas Health network. We will be vibrant collaborators, uniting multiple disciplines and agency offerings for the benefit of our clients and the creative platforms we develop for them. We expect more from ourselves and those who are successful in joining our high-performance team.
Adjusting our perspective, behaviours, and capabilities to foster a creative culture will be a challenging and exciting journey. For the right person, this will be a career-defining period. Your role in our business transformation will likely determine how far your star will rise.
We have an opportunity to be the shining light in the HAVAS network. We will demonstrate how an agency can be highly successful across multiple disciplines while helping each other and our network partners grow through our powerful creative culture. You will be key to driving this. It will take a combination of your capability, charm, guile, energy, and intellect.
You are passionate about health and creativity. This is your calling
Role overview
You will work closely with cross-functional teams to lead strategic direction and provide accurate planning support from creative brief through to tactical planning. Building strong relationships with our clients is fundamental to how we work – as a true partner – we are looking for someone who can build trust and credibility to further enhance this approach.
You’ll work across three core areas: rare diseases, global branding communications, and PR, driving strategy on global brands. With a focus on collaboration and innovation, we aim to unite disciplines and elevate our reputation within the Havas Health network. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the future of our strategy team and play a pivotal role in establishing the agency as a creative leader and we are looking for key talent to help us on this journey of creative excellence and growth.
Key Responsibilities
* Intimately understand client products, therapy areas, commercial strategy and lead strategic direction across all disciplines
* Research and gather data to develop well-informed insights that form the basis of a plan to achieve identified goals
* Develop content and facilitate strategic workshops in partnership with client service and creative teams
* Liaise with externally commissioned market research vendors on methodology and stimuli that fulfil identified strategy (e.g. positioning, messaging, creative, story flow)
* Represent the agency on global platforms, influencing internal networks and growing client relationships.
* Inspire and mentor a high-performing team, contributing to the agency’s creative culture and reputation.
You will bring
* Previous strategy experience from healthcare advertising/ MedComms agency working with global brands
* Demonstrated leadership behaviour
* Strong networking skills, being a charismatic leader with the ability to navigate a network agency relationships and represent the agency at a global level.
* Capability of driving both creative excellence and commercial growth.
* Comfortable with an interpretation of scientific information and raw data
* Ability to make complex subjects understandable