Associate Director, Earned Media

Real Chemistry•Carmel, IN

6d•Remote

About The Position

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. Our #LifeatRealChem culture is rooted in our people—we believe we are best together and are committed to excellence for both our clients and colleagues. Whether you're a seasoned professional or just starting your career, if you share our passion for healthcare and connection, we invite you to explore our opportunities. Discover your purpose. Embrace innovation. Experience #LifeatRealChem. Real Chemistry is looking for an Associate Director join our growing Earned Media team! This role can be remote, TX, Carmel, IN, remote FL, remote TN, or remote PA. This position is a perfect fit for you if: Our Company values – Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always and Accountability with an “I” – really speak to you. You are adaptable, resilient, and OK with adjusting your scope, responsibilities, and focus as we grow. When things change, so do we. We’re always evolving. You are proactive, driven, and resourceful with strong prioritization skills and a desire to dive into the data. You are highly organized self-starter, able to work independently and under tight deadlines.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
High-level understanding of how PESO plays out in today’s modern media world
Excellent project management skills, including solid attention to detail
Highly effective organizational, written and verbal communication skills
Ability to juggle multiple assignments with ease and flexibility
Can effectively and confidently present to internal and external audiences in a variety of ways
Understands how to maintain media budgets and media scopes
Demonstrates deep understanding of the integrated media landscape as well as related firm resources (notably analytics)
Experience with medical meeting support and orchestrating regulatory milestones
Thought leadership and sponsored content experience
Able to plan projects and proactively delegate responsibility, communicating deadlines clearly

Responsibilities

Work directly with a variety of clients in the biotech and pharma spaces to manage media strategy, execution and related internal/external media expectations
May serve as day-to-day client contact for media needs on select accounts and as a strong #2 on others
Manage and own media engagement with local, trade and some national & top-tier media/journalists
Track and prepare media outreach summaries/updates for internal teams and clients
Support organic and new business development efforts (i.e. media research, slide preparation support, etc.) and actively contribute to new business decks, along with smaller-scale presentations representing earned media team
Manage media projects by anticipating challenges, maintaining media budgets, and collaborating with cross functional teams
Lead broad-based earned media workstreams and manage internal and external client expectations
Maintain core relationships with reporters by meeting regularly and sharing learnings with teams and clients
Serve as knowledge relationship manager for key sponsored content outlets (STAT, etc.) and share information more widely
Responsible for providing integrated, 360-degree PESO thinking
Collaborate with the analytics and influencer teams to identify influencers to engage and activate
Accountable for training junior staff on Real Chemistry processes, responsibilities and the healthcare media landscape
Integrate and collaborate with cross-functional leaders, understand cross-functional capabilities and motivate cross-functional teamwork(social, paid, search, and analytics teams)
Set clear performance objectives and utilize all management tools to communicate alignment and performance measures
Embodies and incorporates Real Chemistry Core Values

Benefits

Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region.
Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future.
Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning.

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