Group Account Director - Medical Affairs

At Real Chemistry, making the world a healthier place isn’t just an aspiration—it’s our everyday reality. Our drive to transform healthcare is informed by our blend of deep scientific expertise, human-centred creativity, and AI-driven insights, fostering a unique environment where innovation thrives and our people are impact-obsessed. As a global agency, we provide a full suite of services across healthcare communications and marketing to our clients, including top players in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities.

Discover your purpose. Embrace innovation. Experience #LifeatRealChem.

As a Group Account Director, you will serve as the senior strategic leader across multiple medical affairs and publication workstreams. You’ll own client relationships at the highest level, drive integrated account growth, and ensure operational excellence across a portfolio of work. This role requires leadership, business acumen, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders while mentoring a high-performing team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Act as the senior client partner, shaping long-term strategies and ensuring alignment with client objectives and industry best practices.

• Business Growth: Identify and drive opportunities for account expansion, new business development, and innovative solutions across multiple accounts. This includes pitching for new business as well as growing accounts to their full potential

• Operational Excellence: Oversee account operations, ensuring flawless execution, proactive issue resolution, and financial stewardship (budgeting, forecasting, profitability).

• Executive-Level Counsel: Provide trusted advisory support to senior client stakeholders on medical affairs and publication strategies.

• Team Development: Lead, mentor, and inspire account teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and excellence.

• Industry Expertise: Stay ahead of regulatory changes, competitive trends, and emerging best practices to inform client strategies.

This position is a perfect fit for you if:

• Our Company values – Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an “I” – really speak to you.

• You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow. When things change, so do we. We’re always evolving.

• You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data.

• You are a highly motivated leader, with a passion for growing a business and mentoring a team.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years in medical affairs/publications within an agency setting, with at least 3 years in a senior leadership role.

• Expertise in advisory boards, symposia, MSL materials; publication planning a plus

• Proven track record of managing multi-million-dollar accounts and driving organic growth.

• Exceptional strategic thinking, problem-solving, and client relationship management skills.

• Strong financial acumen and experience overseeing complex budgets.

• Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills.

• Positive thinker who can adapt quickly, innovate and be a reliable resource under pressure.

• Professional presence, performs with a sense of urgency and with a client service orientation

• High energy, able to effectively operate in fast-paced, growing and evolving environment

• Demonstrated experience encouraging professional development of direct reports and exerting influence across matrixed teams

• Veeva experience preferred.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required; advanced degree a plus.

Pay Range: $130,000-$170,000

This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting.  Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on job-related, non-discriminatory factors including but not limited to work experience, skills, certifications, and geographical location. The Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.

Real Chemistry is proud to be Great Place to Work® certified; check out what our people shared about our culture and workplace on our Great Places to Work Profile here.

We believe we can do our best when feeling our best, which is why we’ve put together a benefits program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life. Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning.  Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at: www.realchemistrybenefits.com.

Working with Real HART: Since the pandemic, we have adapted to how our people told us they want to work. We have office locations in cities in the US, UK, and Europe with many employees and clients that serve as hubs where and when they need us. For employees who are within an hour of one of our offices, we expect attendance in the office two days per week, either at a Real Chemistry office or onsite with clients. We are also actively opening new office locations, so if one opens near you, our Real HART policy will apply. We are not looking for attendance for the sake of attendance but believe that the opportunity to coordinate in-office team meetings, 1:1 meetings with managers, taking advantage of on-site learning, and connecting with client partners is a critical to delivering on our purpose of making healthcare what it should be. 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 Real Hybrid and Regional Teams (Real HART) 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.

Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.

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