The Role
Manages day-to-day client relationships and pharmaceutical advertising campaigns for agency clients. Supports account leadership with project briefs, work orders, timelines, status reports, billing, budgets, and communications. Coordinates internal teams, follows agency processes, anticipates issues, gathers market research insights, and keeps client work progressing. Requires pharmaceutical advertising agency experience, strong organization and communication skills, digital proficiency, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines.
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About Avalere Health
United by one profound purpose: to reach EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE. At Avalere Health, we ensure every patient is identified, treated, supported, and cared for. Equally. Our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams come together – powerfully and intentionally – to forge unconventional connections, building a future where healthcare is not a barrier and no patient is left behind.
Achieving our mission starts with providing enriching, purpose-driven careers for our team that empower them to make a tangible impact on patient lives. We are committed to creating a culture where our employees are empowered to bring their whole selves to work and tap into the power of diverse backgrounds and skillsets to play a part in making a difference for every patient, everywhere.
Our flexible approach to working allows our global teams to decide where they want to work, whether in-office or at home based on team and client need. Major city hubs in London, Manchester, Washington, D.C., and New York, and smaller offices globally, serve as collaboration hubs allowing our teams to come together when it matters. Homeworkers are equally supported, with dedicated social opportunities and resources.
Our inclusive culture is at the heart of everything we do. We proudly support our employees in bringing their whole selves to work with our six Employee Network Groups – Diverse Ability, Family, Gender, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, and Race/Ethnicity. These groups provide opportunities to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and to connect, learn, and socialise through regular meetings and programs of activity. We are an accredited Fertility Friendly employer with our Fertility Policy, enhanced parental leave, and culture of flexibility ensuring every employee feels supported across their family planning journey and can work in a way that suits their family’s needs.
We are deeply invested in supporting professional growth for our employees through day-to-day career experiences, access to thousands of on-demand training sessions, regular career conversations, and the opportunity for global, cross-capability career moves.
We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you'd like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.
About the role:
We are searching for an experienced Pharma advertising agency Senior Account Executive to deliver digital promotional marketing campaigns for agency pharmaceutical clients. The ideal candidate will have 3-5 years of pharmaceutical advertising agency experience and possess a demonstrated understanding of how an advertising agency works and how jobs move through the agency.
What you'll do:
- Demonstrate significant knowledge of agency procedures and issues faced; contribute to problem resolution
- Support the Account Supervisor, Group Account Supervisor and/or Account Director in the daily management and progress of client work, including creation of work orders, change orders, project briefs, status reports, conference reports, and review of project timelines with Project Management
- Communicate effectively with assigned client contacts
- Support budget tracking and client billing
- Possess agency process knowledge and experience to independently to follow up with internal departments, address questions, anticipate issues, and help keep work moving
- Possess an understanding of clients’ business and objectives
- Frequently serve as client’s main contact with the agency on a day-to-day basis
- Support billing and communications updates (i.e. status reports, invoices, financial trackers)
- Foster a strong relationship and build trust with day-to-day project managers, copywriters, and art directors
- Attend market research, capture notes, and download team on trends observed and insights gathered
About you:
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment (PHARMA AGENCY EXPERIENCE REQUIRED)
- Demonstrated excellence in attention to detail and follow-through
- Strong organizational and interpersonal communications skills
- Ability to communicate directly and frequently with client with some autonomy
- Strong digital acumen
- BA/BS degree with coursework emphasis in marketing, communications, and/or advertising
- 3-5 years advertising agency Account Management experience, with preference to experience in pharma agency
- MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) proficiency required
What we can offer
You will receive a 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested), as well as life insurance, disability coverage, and medical, dental, and vision plans for peace of mind. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work, along with the option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year. We provide 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day, recognise 9 public holidays, along with gifted end-of-year holidays and an early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August.
Access free counselling through our employee assistance program and personalized health support. Our enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies provide support across every stage of your family-planning journey. You can also benefit from continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.
We encourage all applicants to read our candidate privacy notice before applying to Avalere Health.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of advertising agency Account Management experience
- Pharmaceutical advertising agency experience
- BA or BS degree with coursework in marketing, communications, or advertising
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Strong organizational, interpersonal communication, attention-to-detail, and follow-through skills
- Strong digital acumen
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Ability to communicate directly and frequently with clients with some autonomy
Avalere Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Avalere Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Avalere Health.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is positioned as generous, including vacation, sick leave, and a year‑end holiday shutdown. Remote work flexibility is frequently highlighted as a strong complement to PTO.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Work-from-home flexibility is emphasized through a “magnet not a mandate” approach with collaboration hubs. Wellbeing resources are visible, including mental-health support networks.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-forming support and external fertility-friendly accreditation are promoted. This signals investment in parenthood pathways alongside broader inclusion initiatives.
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The Company
What We Do
Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries. Our team of 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines—Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology—to create the connections that make better health happen. We partner with our clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.
