Associate Director - Investor Relations & External Communications

Precision AQ; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Precision AQ seeks an Associate Director in Investor Relations & External Communications to provide strategic support to biotech companies. The role involves executing IR strategies, overseeing client engagement, and ensuring successful communication across various investor platforms. Ideal candidates will have strong analytical and communication skills with a proven background in the biotech industry.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

Health insurance

Retirement savings benefits

Paid time off

Parental leave

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years relevant work experience in investor relations.
• Strong analytical, research, and writing skills.
• Excellent communication skills for professional interactions.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic support to C-level executives.
• Develop and execute investor relations programs.
• Manage logistical planning for client events.

Skills

Analytical skills

Research skills

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Detail-oriented

Problem-solving

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Associate Director - Investor Relations & External Communications

New York, New York, United States

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 representing 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, isa 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 is required by law in some states or cities to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to: skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Precision, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. This role is also eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, health insurance, retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, and paid time off for sick leave and vacation, among other benefits.

Reasonable estimate of the current range

$97,000 - $137,000 USD

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