Requirements
Requires at least 8 years of client service experience, including senior client relationship ownership, and at least 3 years in pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or medical communications. Candidates should have experience managing complex accounts and multidisciplinary teams, presenting to senior stakeholders, and coaching colleagues; knowledge of regulated communications and account growth is also relevant.
Job Description
About Our Client Services Craft
Our Client Services Craft ensures strong partnerships and seamless delivery across engagements. This craft connects strategy, execution, and relationships. Teams focus on alignment, clarity, and accountability. Their work drives successful outcomes for clients and internal teams.
Job Description
As Senior Account Director, this role leads strategic client relationships and delivery excellence across healthcare and life sciences accounts. The role partners closely with Strategy, Creative, Medical Strategy, Project Management, and Si-Reg teams to align client objectives with high-quality programme delivery. This person provides day-to-day leadership across client engagements while identifying opportunities to strengthen partnerships, deliver commercial value, and ensure work is executed with clarity, accountability, and regulatory awareness.
What You'll Do
- Lead day-to-day senior client relationships, building trusted partnerships and ensuring programmes are delivered against client objectives, timelines, budgets, and quality expectations.
- Manage one or more healthcare or pharmaceutical accounts, overseeing financial forecasting, scope management, resource planning, and delivery in partnership with Project Management.
- Partner with Strategy, Creative, Medical Strategy, Project Management, and Si-Reg teams to deliver integrated, compliant healthcare communications that meet client and business objectives.
- Support the growth and development of Client Services team members through coaching, feedback, and leadership across day-to-day account delivery.
- Identify opportunities to grow existing client relationships by contributing to account planning, programme recommendations, and scope development.
Required
- 8+ years of client service experience within advertising, healthcare communications, pharmaceutical marketing, or agency environments, including ownership of senior client relationships.
- 3+ years of pharmaceutical, healthcare, life sciences, or medical communications experience with demonstrated understanding of regulated healthcare communications.
- Experience managing complex client accounts, including financial forecasting, budgeting, resource planning, and scope management across multiple workstreams.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across Strategy, Creative, Medical Strategy, Project Management, and Si-Reg to deliver integrated client programmes.
- Experience presenting strategic recommendations, programme updates, and business reviews to senior client stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience coaching or mentoring Client Services team members while supporting account performance and delivery excellence.
- Comfort and enthusiasm for using AI as a regular part of how work gets done.
- Experience supporting regional or global healthcare accounts across multiple brands or therapeutic areas.
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical and healthcare marketing regulations, including experience working with Medical, Legal, and Regulatory review processes.
- Experience contributing to organic account growth, proposal development, and new business opportunities.
- Experience creating, reviewing, or negotiating scopes of work in partnership with Project Management or Finance teams.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of color, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities. We're also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.
Skills
About Klick
Klick Health is the world’s largest independent commercialization partner for life sciences companies. Together with Oxford PharmaGenesis, the agency helps life sciences brands achieve their full potential with best-in-class marketing and advertising, media strategy and purchasing, medical affairs, medical publications and medical communications, value and market access services, real world evidence support, as well as technology and analytics consulting from clinical development through Loss of Exclusivity (LOE). Klick’s expertise is rooted in deep medical and scientific understanding and is powered by over 500 post-graduate, in-house medical experts; award-winning data science and AI capabilities; unrivaled decision sciences; and innovative, results-driven creative — all built on a foundation of proprietary technology platforms that have defined Klick since its founding. Established in 1997, Klick Health (including Oxford PharmaGenesis, Klick Katalyst, and btwelve) has offices in Toronto, Cambridge, Cardiff, London, Melbourne, New York, Oxford, Philadelphia, São Paulo, Saratoga Springs, and Singapore. It is part of the Klick Group of companies, which also includes Klick Media Group, Klick Applied Sciences (including Klick Labs), Klick Consulting, and Klick Ventures. For more information on joining Klick, go to careers.klick.com.
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