Head of Medical Communications- Cranbury, NJ

Come join the true partner of global healthcare companies, Amplity Health. We continually challenge the boundaries of medical and commercial strategies to accelerate the approval and launch of new drugs to improve the lives of patients.

Head of Medical Communications

We have a current opportunity for Head of our Medical Communications division. This is an exciting opportunity to grow our existing business line, reporting directly to our Chief Executive Officer. In addition to a competitive base salary, Amplity provides a comprehensive benefit package including medical, dental, vision, 401K, company funded short-term, long term, disability, life insurance, mental wellness program, generous PTO, paid holidays and more. The ideal candidate will reside in the Eastern time zone.

About Amplity

Amplity is a global contract sales and commercial organization partnering with pharma and biotech companies to provide tailored outsourced programs and communications throughout a drug's life cycle. We specialize in scientific stakeholder engagement and go-to-market strategies, emphasizing person-to-person interactions that build trust with physicians, patients, payers, community organizations, and life science executives.

Purpose of Role

The Head of Medical Communications plays a crucial role as business leader and true partner for our clients as we help them communicate complex medical messages to both healthcare providers and patients. Through the delivery of high value strategic offerings and multichannel communications products, the Head of Medical Communications will work with media buying, medical affairs, and brand executives in pharma and biotech to drive the business ‘mission of mitigating health inequities to ensure all patients can get the care they deserve. Leading a high performing team to deliver on a successful business strategy is a top priority to ensure business line growth and profitability.

As part of the business line’s growth goals, this leader will be responsible for ensuring the success of the media and agency offerings Amplity Medical Communications business currently delivers. This executive will also work with the larger Amplity leadership team and their direct reports in Medical Communications to develop and commercialize new offerings that help the business line quickly realize double-digit revenue growth year over year.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and lead a strong, appropriately structured, Medical Communications organization that has the vision, strategic plans, processes, success measures, talent, and market relevant offerings for the pharmaceutical and biotech industry to effectively drive business growth and mature with the company over time.
• Manage all financial aspects of the business including forecasting and contributing to To Be Gained (TBG). Pursue opportunities to advance client relationships and agency business.
• Drive a culture of high performance and transparency aligned with our company’s values. Asses the talent of current and future Medical Communications professionals to deliver against the business lines vision, strategic plans, processes, success measures.
• Optimize and modernize the roles, responsibilities, organizational structure, and reporting relationships within the business line.
• Utilize data and analytics to inform strategic decision-making and optimize client outcomes.
• Hold final accountability for the quality of all materials and assets that leave the agency.
• Ensure the strength of relationships for integrated accounts, actively engaging with client leadership to maintain strategic alignment across brands or portfolios. Establish solid working relationships for non-integrated accounts.
• Collaborate with business and support functional leaders across the rest of Amplity to increase efficiency and drive the successful development and sale of integrated offerings; e.g. strategic brand planning workshops with Pharma brand leaders where our Medical Communications and Intel executives are responsible for creating strategic messaging and segmentation findings and our Learning professionals are responsible for facilitating needed interactive workshops or training sessions for brand leaders.
• Coach and Mentor team leaders to enhance their communication skills and refine strategies to meet client and organizational needs. Lead key client meetings and co-lead new business pitches.
• Partner with corporate marketing to successfully launch a new name and rebrand for our medical communication business – one that is powered by Amplity – in 2025.
• Support Amplity’s Chief Growth Officer in ensuring the Medical Communications Business Development team has the product and offering exposure and input to be successful.
• Integrate, and when needed consolidate