Senior Programme Manager – Medical Communications
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 truly matter.
The Opportunity
Due to continued growth, we're looking for a Senior Programme Manager to join the ApotheCom team.
This is a dynamic and varied role offering the chance to work across a diverse range of projects within a supportive, established, and collaborative team. You'll grow your expertise and grow your career in an environment that values innovation, quality, and teamwork.
What You'll Do:
You'll be responsible for leading the delivery of complex scientific communications and Medical Affairs programmes, ensuring projects are executed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. You'll be a trusted partner to clients, managing risks, financial performance, and cross-functional teams.
Key responsibilities include:
- Manage publications and medical affairs projects from initiation through to completion, including abstracts, posters, manuscripts, congress deliverables, advisory boards, slide decks, medical education materials, training programmes, scientific platforms
- Lead multiple concurrent projects and workstreams across client programmes, ensuring timely delivery and effective resource management
- Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and status trackers
- Coordinate multidisciplinary internal teams and external stakeholders to ensure seamless project execution
- Own project financial management, including budget development, forecasting, invoicing, revenue recognition, and profitability tracking
- Managing Statements of Work (SOWs), monitoring scope, identifying change requests and out-of-scope activities
- Build and maintain client relationships
What You'll Bring:
- Experience within a Medical Communications agency in a project/account or programme management role
- Experience managing scientific publications (including abstracts, posters, and manuscripts) and a broad range of Medical Affairs deliverables
- The ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while balancing quality, timelines, budgets, and client expectations
- Project financial management experience, including budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, and financial reporting
- Organisational, planning, and communication skills
- Experience building client relationships and leading project communications with both internal and external stakeholders
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 within a Medical Communications agency in a project/account or programme management role
- Experience managing scientific publications including abstracts, posters, and manuscripts
- Experience managing a broad range of Medical Affairs deliverables (congress materials, advisory boards, slide decks, medical education, training programmes)
- Ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while balancing quality, timelines, budgets, and client expectations
- Project financial management experience including budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, and financial reporting
- Organisational, planning, and communication skills
- Experience building client relationships and leading project communications with internal and external stakeholders
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.
