London/Manchester/ Hybrid / Remote UK
At Inizio Medical, the combined expertise of ApotheCom, Nucleus Global, and Ashfield Medcomms, supported by the specialist skills of MEDiSTRAVA, brings together world-leading medical communications excellence. We create compelling scientific content, connect expert communities, and deliver outcomes that matter.
Are you an experienced Medical Communications professional with a background in project delivery, publications management, and client partnership?
We're looking for a Programme Manager to join our growing team and support the successful delivery of scientific communications programmes across a range of therapeutic areas. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced agency environment, partnering with clients and internal teams to manage complex publications and medical affairs projects from initiation through to completion.
Whether you're an experienced Programme Manager or looking to take the next step in your MedComms career, you'll have the opportunity to develop your expertise across project management, client engagement, and financial operations while working alongside a collaborative and supportive team.
What You'll Do:As Programme Manager, you'll be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day management of multiple projects, ensuring deliverables are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage publications projects from kick-off through to completion, including abstracts, posters, manuscripts, and congress-related deliverables
- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and status trackers
- Independently drive smaller projects while supporting larger accounts and programmes
- Coordinate internal and external stakeholders to ensure smooth project execution
- Managing competing priorities and multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Support project financial management activities, including invoicing, budget creation, forecasting, and financial tracking
- Understand Statements of Work (SOWs) and supporting scope management across projects
- Identify and communicate potential out-of-scope activities and project risks
- Participating in client status calls and maintaining regular communication with clients by email and virtual meetings
- Build strong working relationships with clients and internal colleagues
- Experience working within a Medical Communications agency environment
- Publications management experience, including abstracts, posters, and manuscripts
- Project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects
- Experience supporting project financials, including invoicing, budget management, forecasting, or related responsibilities
- Organisational skills and attention to detail
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience working directly with clients and managing project communications
- Oncology experience and previous use of iEnvision would be advantageous
Why Join Us:
At Inizio Medical, we believe our people are our strength. You'll enjoy:
- A competitive salary and benefits package, including private medical insurance and a company pension.
- Flexible, hybrid working options to support work-life balance.
- A friendly and inclusive culture with regular Friday socials, wellbeing initiatives, and Town Hall events.
- Exceptional career development opportunities and access to world-class learning resources.
We are proud to promote a culture of diversity, inclusion, and belonging. We believe our differences make us stronger — and that diversity drives innovation, creativity, and success.
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.
Skills Required
- Experience working within a Medical Communications agency environment
- Publications management experience (abstracts, posters, manuscripts)
- Project management skills with ability to manage multiple projects and timelines
- Experience supporting project financials, including invoicing, budget management and forecasting
- Understanding of Statements of Work (SOWs) and scope management
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Organisational skills and attention to detail
- Experience working directly with clients and managing project communications
- Oncology experience and previous use of iEnvision
What We Do
ApotheCom is a Global Medical Communications Powerhouse with offices in London, Leeds, Yardley, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Lebanon, Auckland, Tokyo and Johannesburg. Our mission is to be an effective and proactive broker of collaborative and sustained engagement for the healthcare community, to drive meaningful change and positive outcomes. ApotheCom is uniquely able to create and deploy teams across many geographies, pulling on specialized skills and specific market expertise. The team comprises 130 PhDs and PharmDs and more than 250 content developers who understand how to tell the scientific, clinical, and value stories to reach specific audiences. The global team structure supports dedicated practice areas in Scientific Communications and Publications, Medical Education and Access Pathways and Outcomes in addition to therapeutic areas of excellence across chronic diseases, oncology, vaccines and infectious diseases, cell and genes therapies and specialized medicine. The matrix structure has been created to fuel innovation and flexibility, with increased specialization and focus on multi-functional team working. At our core, we bring data agility, integrated evidence planning, scientific and value storytelling, convergence of technology and insight-driven problem-solving. Our single, global team structure with dedicated practice areas and defined therapeutic expertise has been specifically designed to remove every barrier to being able to provide the best expertise in the right place and at the right time for our clients. ApotheCom is part of Inizio Medical. Inizio is a strategic partner for health and life sciences with a full suite of medical, marketing, advisory and engagement services.
