PR Vice President, Health

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Offer visionary leadership and strategic direction for the health and lifestyle sectors.

• Foster and sustain relationships with healthcare clients, serving as the primary contact.

• Create comprehensive public relations strategies customized to meet client goals and target audiences.

• Manage PR campaigns, encompassing media relations, thought leadership, crisis communications, and executive visibility initiatives.

• Guide, mentor, and empower professionals in health and lifestyle PR.

• Establish connections with media contacts in the health and lifestyle sectors to secure premier placements.

• Position clients as thought leaders through engaging content, speaking opportunities, and participation in industry events.

• Formulate and implement crisis communication strategies to safeguard client reputations.

• Track campaign performance metrics and propose optimization strategies.

• Conduct weekly business reviews, assess account health, and proactively identify risks.

• Enhance practice-level retention through effective service delivery, quick time-to-value, and interventions to save accounts.

• Design and execute over five recurring expansion initiatives aimed at achieving 1.5–2% monthly MRR growth.

• Lead the development of healthcare teams, provide senior coaching, engage in selective recruiting, and ensure quality in delivery.

• Create a productized healthcare service offering utilizing the Interviewed platform for competitive intelligence, regulatory media monitoring, KOL targeting, and payer narrative tracking.

• Acquire new healthcare clients with the business development team across sectors including biotech, pharma, medical devices, hospitals, health systems, digital health, and consumer wellness.

• Represent the practice at industry events and in healthcare publications through thought leadership contributions.

• Submit a resume, a brief cover letter, and a one-page write-up detailing a healthcare client retention or expansion outcome.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 15 years of experience in public relations, particularly within the healthcare and lifestyle sectors.

• Over 15 years in healthcare communications or PR, possessing senior leadership experience in guiding teams and managing practice-level outcomes.

• Documented success in managing PR campaigns for healthcare clients, with quantifiable media placement and client satisfaction results.

• Proven expertise in at least three areas, including FDA and regulatory communications, biotech and pharma, medical devices, hospitals and health systems, payer relations, clinical trial communications, digital health, and healthcare policy.

• Established record of measurable client retention and expansion, quantifiable in numerical terms.

• Confidence in managing gross revenue retention, net revenue retention, and expansion as key performance indicators.

• Exceptional leadership and management capabilities.

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to craft persuasive narratives and convey complex healthcare and lifestyle concepts clearly.

• Profound understanding of the healthcare industry.

• Extensive network of contacts within healthcare and lifestyle media and the broader industry.

• Strong connections with healthcare media across business, trade, clinical, and consumer publications.

• Strategic operational capability encompassing client strategy, team development, and rigorous operations.

• Familiarity with AI-driven workflows and a data-oriented approach to earned media.

• Results-driven mindset and a commitment to surpassing client expectations.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work; operate from anywhere across the globe.

• Three Anthem Blue Cross PPO medical plan options.

• Coverage for dental and vision needs.

• 401(k) program with a company match that will increase to 3% by 2027.

• Paid vacation time.

• Paid sick leave.

• 11 company-recognized holidays.

• Floating holiday option.

• Summer Fridays.

• Paid parental leave.

• Opportunities for career advancement and skill development.

• A supportive, collaborative, and entrepreneurial work culture.