[Hiring] Senior Account Director @Ashfield MedComms

Role Description

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Account Director to join Ashfield MedComms. In this role, you’ll provide strategic and operational leadership across a portfolio of high-profile publications and medical affairs accounts, serving as a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders and leading Client Services teams to deliver exceptional work.

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple publications and medical affairs accounts, ensuring high-quality, compliant delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, providing strategic counsel and proactive solutions to complex challenges.
• Oversee publication programs, including abstracts, posters, manuscripts, congress activities, and related deliverables, alongside broader medical affairs initiatives.
• Partner closely with Scientific Services and cross-functional teams to develop and deliver strategic medical communications plans aligned with client objectives.
• Champion operational best practices, identifying opportunities to strengthen delivery, improve efficiencies, and support organic account growth.
• Own account financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability, reconciliation, invoicing, and SOW development.
• Lead and develop multiple Client Services team members.
• Lead and support business development activities, including proposals, RFPs/RFIs, presentations, budgets, and onboarding of new business.
• Partner with senior Client Services leadership on resourcing, team development, training, and new service offerings.
• Ensure teams maintain strong cross-functional partnerships and effectively manage risks, priorities, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive medical communications agency experience, with strong expertise across publications and medical affairs.
• Demonstrated success leading multiple complex client accounts and providing strategic counsel to senior stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of publication planning and delivery, medical affairs communications, industry standards, and compliance requirements.
• Proven experience leading and developing Client Services teams, including managing managers and/or multiple direct reports.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability, SOW development, and account growth.
• Experience leading or contributing to new business development, including proposals, pitches, and RFP/RFI responses.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with a proactive, solutions-focused approach.
• Experience with platforms such as iEnvision, Veeva, or similar systems.

Benefits

• Comprehensive bonus plan and benefit programs including medical, dental, and vision.
• Generous 401k match.
• Vacation, sick, and personal days.
• Generous company holiday plan.
• Additional benefits for those building as well as expanded paid leave for new parents.

Company Description

Ashfield MedComms is a global leader in the medical communications space with a portfolio of clients across medical affairs, publications and commercial. We are part of Inizio Medical, which also includes ApotheCom, Nucleus Global and MEDiSTRAVA. Our position as part of this international network gives us a key advantage over other agencies in terms of the scale of our reach and depth of our expertise.

More broadly, Inizio Medical is part of Inizio, whose mission is to be THE strategic partner for health and life sciences companies. Unparalleled in scale and expertise, we connect a full suite of Advisory, Medical, Marketing/Communications, Patient and Stakeholder Engagement, and Biotech services to reimagine clients' challenges into opportunities.