Senior Account Executive - Medical Communications

Senior Account Executive (Project Leader) – Medical Communications/Publications

Home-Based or Office-Based Role, Flexible Location

At ICON, it’s our people that set us apart.

As a global provider of drug development solutions, our work is serious business. But that doesn’t mean you can’t have fun while you do it. With our vision to be the partner of choice in drug development, we hire only the best and brightest in the industry. Are you one of them? We are looking for conscientious, resilient, and inspiring individuals to join our team.

The Role

• Interact with internal delivery teams including Content, Creative, Finance, and other delivery operations members to assure that projects are delivered on-time, on-budget to meet client expectations.

• With guidance from senior staff, the Project Leader is expected to support the financial and project management of assigned projects to ensure successful execution and outcome

• Provide task-based project management support, assisting the Account Services team and wider delivery teams in meeting day-to-day tasks, including project routing, timelines development and maintenance, and budget/hours management/monitoring

• Keep team members informed and regularly updated on project status. Triage competing requests and find solutions for capacity and resource issues

• Raise swift awareness to proactively head off issues that put projects at risk for staying on-time, on-budget, and maintain our standards of quality and value

• Coordinate revisions, submission preparation and conduct follow-up as necessary

• Own task management in time-tracking and project management systems: implements/maintains projects

• Own and maintains internal/client status sheet

• Fully trained on client systems and dedicated to compliance in use of these systems

• General understanding of other department best practices

• Financial awareness of efficiencies

What you need

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or local equivalent

• Prior Med Comms Agency experience (preferably in Publications)

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in related field

• Strong communication skills written and orally

• Strong computer skills, sound knowledge of MS Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat

• Ability to multi-task, support various projects

Why join us?

Ongoing development is vital to us, and as an Editorial Assistant, you will have the opportunity to progress your career, with the potential to move into other related areas to enhance your skill set. Our benefits package is competitive, our scope is international, and we genuinely care about our people and their success.

ICON is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing a workplace free of any discrimination or harassment.

EOE race/color/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/disability/vet/national origin

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