Associate Director

Precision Medicine Group; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Associate Director for their Investor Relations team in New York City. This role is pivotal in supporting C-level executives and executing investor relations strategies that enhance corporate visibility and engagement with the investment community. You will be responsible for developing strategic messaging, preparing high-quality deliverables, and managing logistics for key investor events. Join a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, where your contributions will directly impact the success of clients in the biotech and healthcare sectors. If you're a proactive self-starter with a passion for investor relations, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in investor relations or related fields.
• Strong analytical, research, and writing skills required.

Responsibilities

• Support C-level executives with corporate strategy and IR programs.
• Prepare client deliverables and manage logistics for investor events.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Research Skills

Problem Solving

Detail Oriented

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Biotech Investor Relations – Associate Director

Office Based/Hybrid: New York City

Are you intellectually curious, a strategic thinker and a strong communicator and leader? Are you passionate about being a critical part of the innovative biotech industry, helping companies with everything from marketing materials, industry research, to relationship building, event planning and logistics? If so, this is an exciting opportunity to work with a team with a long track record of providing best-in-class investor relations counsel to leaders across biotech and healthcare.

The Investor Relations and External Communications (IREC) group at Precision AQ is a well-established leader in providing IR services to biotechnology and healthcare companies, having represented hundreds of public and private companies of all sizes and therapeutic areas. In collaborating with our clients on their larger corporate strategy, we provide a range of services to achieve key investor relations goals, including effective messaging and positioning, enhancing visibility, improving institutional ownership and sell-side coverage, preparing for financings and IPOs, developing good guidance practices and managing communications around M&A, binary events and other strategic issues.

What you can expect day-to-day:

As an Associate Director, you will provide high quality support to C-level executives and internal corporate communications departments to bolster companies’ corporate strategy and ensure the success of their IR programs. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to support of client engagements, building and executing investor relations programs focusing on strategic advice and tactical execution, tracking sector trends, gathering and analyzing data, and planning client events. On assigned accounts you will assist in driving client account strategy, managing program execution, overseeing quality control of junior resource deliverables, and developing and maintaining independent relationships with clients. You will also have opportunity to support the firm’s growth and broader business efforts.

Responsibilities include:

• Highly proactive and responsive support to account leads on the development and execution of IR strategies to support clients’ corporate goals, including fundraising and marketing the company to the investment community and other audiences.
• Providing enhanced daily logistical and strategic IR support to assigned client accounts.
• Preparing client deliverables, including backgrounder documents, shareholder reports, analyst models, short interest reports, industry benchmarking reports, competitive intelligence research, quantitative data analyses on peer ownership from SEC filings (targeting), and other research projects.
• Developing sophisticated corporate communications and presentation materials including press releases, conference call scripts, corporate overview and Board of Directors PowerPoint presentations and Q&A and messaging documents.
• Manage the logistical planning and execution of earnings calls, roadshows, industry conferences, medical meetings, and other investor events with support.
• Event planning and on-site support, including occasional travel.
• Assist with day-to-day communications with contacts in the life sciences investment community.
• Database maintenance and entry.
• Mentorship of assigned junior teammates in support of career development.
• Manage/support various initiatives at Precision AQ in support of business growth.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience, including familiarity with developing and executing an IR program, strategic messaging and positioning, drafting and editing public materials, roadshow and industry event execution, industry contacts – investors, banks and others - and deal execution.
• Displayed interest in healthcare and equity markets.
• Strong analytical, research, and writing skills, including highly nuanced and technical language.
• Excellent communication skills; confident and professional phone and e-mail communication.
• Detail oriented, highly organized, and able to multi-task efficiently in a dynamic team environment.
• Dedication to accuracy, deadlines, and high-quality work; high ethical and professional standards.
• Comfortable learning new software technology and platforms.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Strong team player with a positive attitude; excellent cross-functional collaborator who inspires confidence and trust.
• Proactive self-starter who takes initiative and works well with little supervision while making judgment calls under pressure.
• A problem solver who is resourceful and creative.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with financial and biotech industry.
• Leadership experience with the ability to mentor and support junior resources and provide skillful account support with a degree of independence.
• Proven track record of excellence in client service.
• Intermediate Excel skills (formulas and graphs for reporting).

About Us:

Precision AQ, formerly known as Precision Value & Health, is a global commercialization vendor specializing in helping life sciences companies navigate access and commercialization complexities across a product's lifecycle, with a focus on getting more therapies to patients. Precision AQ's website also offers investor relations and external communications services.

IREC is a thought-leading, strategic, fit-for-purpose healthcare investor relations and external communications agency, integrating with client teams to develop tailored messaging and bespoke strategy, leverage data to inform recommendations, and executing flawlessly to help companies access capital and, ultimately, deliver transformative benefit to patients.

Precision Medicine Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.