Senior Account Executive (Patient Advocacy)
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.
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Real Chemistry is a global health innovation company with offices across Europe and the US. We believe that the way to real, transformative change is through the uncommon combination of disciplines, technologies, and our greatest asset – our people. We are currently looking to add to our alchemic mix of more than 1,800 talented professionals. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic, fast-growing global company committed to making the world a healthier place for all.
Job Summary:
Real Chemistry is looking for a Senior Account Executive to join our global Patient Advocacy team. This client-facing role is ideal for a highly organized healthcare communications professional who is ready to help deliver meaningful patient advocacy programs across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and health technology clients.
The SAE will support the development and execution of integrated advocacy programs, manage day-to-day client and stakeholder activity, contribute to high-quality materials and scopes, and help ensure work is delivered on time, on budget and to Real Chemistry standards.
Responsibilities:
- Support the development and execution of advocacy strategies aligned to brand, policy, access, and disease-area objectives.
- Contribute to authentic, ethical and compliant engagement with patient advocacy organizations, coalitions and community leaders.
- Help design and deliver patient-centric programs, including education, awareness, policy engagement, advisory boards, summits, co-creation sessions, and community-based initiatives.
- Provide exceptional client service and account management support across multiple client accounts and workstreams.
- Act as a trusted day-to-day client contact for planned activities, ad hoc requests, project updates and delivery of materials.
- Support new business development, pitches and proposals, and identify opportunities to evolve or expand client programs.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Currently working as SAE, or strong AE ready to step up in a patient advocacy agency, or patient advocacy team within a comms agency.
- Experience working with, or supporting programs involving, patient advocacy organizations, patient communities, NGOs, coalitions or healthcare stakeholders.
- Global advocacy experience is preferred.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including formal and informal presentations and confident participation in client-facing conversations.
- Ability to draft clear project scopes, client and vendor contracts, presentations, briefs, communications materials and recommendations.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint, Word and Excel.
- Comfortable conducting research, monitoring relevant media or landscape developments, and contributing to insight-led client recommendations with limited supervision.
Please note: this role requires hybrid working with 2 days per week from one of our offices - London, Manchester or Edinburgh.
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