Director, Financial Communications - Healthcare & Life Sciences

FTI Consulting • Washington, DC

43d • $102,000 - $173,000

About The Position

FTI Consulting is seeking a Director to join its Financial Communications team, specializing in the Healthcare and Life Sciences sector. This role involves supporting clients, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, with their financial communications and Investor Relations (IR) programs. The Director will manage client engagements related to ongoing IR advisory, M&A, IPOs, spin-offs, SPACs, shareholder activism, C-suite transitions, and business transformations. The position requires collaboration across FTI's Strategic Communications practices and serving as a primary client contact for senior IR officers and C-suite executives. Responsibilities also include participating in new business development and practice initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, or related field.
• 5+ years of professional experience in investor relations, investment banking, sell-side research, capital markets, asset management, or Healthcare communications with a preference toward demonstrated experience managing multiple clients and accounts.
• Familiarity with the legal, regulatory, and financial obligations of publicly traded companies in the healthcare / life sciences industry.
• Strong project management skills including the ability to direct a project from concept to conclusion and manage all levels of employees, including support staff, peers, and senior managers.
• Strong organizational, time management skills, and ability to manage priorities between multiple client assignments while maintaining attention to detail.
• Analytical skills to identify and diagnose key issues, misperceptions and factors impacting a company’s valuation as well as the solutions to fix/mitigate them.
• Strong financial acumen with an understanding of and familiarity with financial markets, the regulatory landscape, and the investment community.
• Excellent written and oral presentation skills – both in a large group and smaller meetings.
• Ability to concisely articulate a company’s equity story.
• Ability to learn new concepts quickly and possess a service-oriented attitude.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative research skills.
• Ability to leverage experience / expertise to think critically and develop creative solutions.
• Ability to navigate complex situations with multiple external / internal factors, stakeholders, and priorities.
• Capacity to adjust behavior to meet client needs and personalities and to establish positive relationships with a wide variety of individuals both internally and externally.
• Proficient skills in Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• This role requires travel to clients and FTI office(s).

Nice To Haves

• Ability to recognize, explore and use a broad range of ideas and practices, thinking logically and creatively without influence from personal bias
• Ability to establish positive relationships with a wide variety of individuals
• Ability to manage priorities between multiple client assignments
• Ability to connect the dots and leverage existing materials to create efficiencies in deliverables

Responsibilities

• Project manage client accounts and workstreams related to ongoing IR advisory work, transactions, and events/issues in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Serve as a daily client contact and address client issues thoughtfully and effectively.
• Play a major role in developing and implementing best practice IR strategies and programs.
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of each client’s business, market, investment thesis, shareholder base and sell-side analyst coverage.
• Perform detailed and accurate research to underpin all client projects and deliverables.
• Draft press releases, earnings call scripts, conference presentations, messaging and Q&A documents and Board presentations.
• Work with colleagues in other practices to ensure the execution of cohesive, multi-disciplinary communications programs.
• Identify opportunities where FTI can add greater value for clients.
• Stay abreast of market developments and translate those insights into actionable business development opportunities.
• Work with colleagues to produce business pitch materials, and play an active role in the new business processes and pitches.
• Begin developing and relationships with corporate management teams, investment bankers and law firms to build your personal network and the FTI brand.
• Actively manage, develop, inspire, and motivate junior-level team members.
• Effectively manage account teams including driving “to do” meetings, strategy sessions and monthly and quarterly measurement and reporting.
• Take a leadership role in thought leadership, product offerings, trainings, and mentorship.
• Continuously build out and improve the internal processes and market intelligence functions.
• Assist Healthcare and Financial Communications Practice leaders to elevate FTI’s Strategic Communications standing within the fields of Financial Communications and Investor Relations.
• Advance FTI’s standing in the field of IR, including active involvement in internal knowledge share activities and industry networking opportunities.
• Develop a full understanding of all the Strategic Communications service offerings and be proficient enough to discuss them fluently in any client or sales situation.
• Efficiently utilize research tools including but not limited to Bloomberg, AlphaSense, FactSet, Capital IQ, Thomson, and other databases.
• Keep up to date with major stock market, business, economic and regulatory news.

Benefits

• Direct access to leadership with defined long-term career planning to ensure continued development of your skills as a strategic communications practitioner.
• Partner with internal teams in various specialty areas to tackle a myriad of high visibility client challenges across industries, with an emphasis on a collaborative team approach.
• Learn from others and share diverse perspectives and ways of working to best meet client challenges and continue to grow the firm.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director