Senior Account Director

Inizio; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k match

Vacation

Sick and personal days

Generous holiday plan

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Ashfield MedComms, part of Inizio Medical, is seeking an experienced Senior Account Director to lead Client Services across publications and medical affairs accounts.

You will oversee multi-stakeholder programs globally, ensuring scientific rigor, operational excellence, and strong financial performance while developing people, growing partnerships, and supporting new business opportunities.

Qualifications

• Experience in medical communications with publications and medical affairs.
• Proven ability to lead multiple complex client accounts and provide strategic counsel.
• Strong knowledge of publication planning, standards, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across publications and medical affairs accounts.
• Oversee multi-stakeholder programs spanning global publications and initiatives.
• Lead and develop Client Services team members.
• Drive business development through proposals, budgets, and RFPs.
• Ensure financial performance, budgeting, forecasting, and SOWs.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Client relationship management

Publication planning

Medical affairs communications

Cross-functional collaboration

Finance acumen

People leadership

Business development

Education

Bachelor's degree in life sciences or related field

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

iEnvision

Veeva

Job description

Ashfield MedComms is a global leader in the medical communications space with a portfolio of clients across medical affairs, publications and commercial. We are part of Inizio Medical, which also includes ApotheCom, Nucleus Global and MEDiSTRAVA. Our position as part of this international network gives us a key advantage over other agencies in terms of the scale of our reach and depth of our expertise.

More broadly, Inizio Medical is part of Inizio, whose mission is to be THE strategic partner for health and life sciences companies. Unparalleled in scale and expertise, we connect a full suite of Advisory, Medical, Marketing/Communications, Patient and Stakeholder Engagement, and Biotech services to reimagine clients' challenges into opportunities.

About the Role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Account Director to join Ashfield MedComms. In this role, you’ll provide strategic and operational leadership across a portfolio of high-profile publications and medical affairs accounts, serving as a trusted partner to senior client stakeholders and leading Client Services teams to deliver exceptional work.

You’ll oversee complex, multi-stakeholder programs spanning global publications and broader medical affairs initiatives, ensuring scientific rigor, operational excellence, and strong financial performance. As a senior member of the Client Services team, you’ll also play an important role in developing our people, growing existing partnerships, and supporting new business opportunities.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across multiple publications and medical affairs accounts, ensuring high-quality, compliant delivery.
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, providing strategic counsel and proactive solutions to complex challenges.
• Oversee publication programs, including abstracts, posters, manuscripts, congress activities, and related deliverables, alongside broader medical affairs initiatives.
• Partner closely with Scientific Services and cross-functional teams to develop and deliver strategic medical communications plans aligned with client objectives.
• Champion operational best practices, identifying opportunities to strengthen delivery, improve efficiencies, and support organic account growth.
• Own account financial performance, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability, reconciliation, invoicing, and SOW development.
• Lead and develop multiple Client Services team members.
• Lead and support business development activities, including proposals, RFPs/RFIs, presentations, budgets, and onboarding of new business.
• Partner with senior Client Services leadership on resourcing, team development, training, and new service offerings.
• Ensure teams maintain strong cross-functional partnerships and effectively manage risks, priorities, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.

About You

• Bachelor’s degree in life sciences or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Extensive medical communications agency experience, with strong expertise across publications and medical affairs.
• Demonstrated success leading multiple complex client accounts and providing strategic counsel to senior stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of publication planning and delivery, medical affairs communications, industry standards, and compliance requirements.
• Proven experience leading and developing Client Services teams, including managing managers and/or multiple direct reports.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, profitability, SOW development, and account growth.
• Experience leading or contributing to new business development, including proposals, pitches, and RFP/RFI responses.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills with a proactive, solutions-focused approach.
• Experience with platforms such as iEnvision, Veeva, or similar systems.

Benefits

• comprehensive bonus plan
• benefit programs including for medical, dental, and vision
• a generous 401k match
• vacation
• sick and personal days
• Generous company holiday plan
• additional benefits for those building as well as expanded paid leave for new parents

Compensation

$130,000 - $160,000 USD

The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. This range may differ based on your experience and skill set, geographic location, and cost of living considerations. We consider compensation more than just a base salary – that’s why we also offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work.

We appreciate the importance of having a workforce that reflects the various communities in which we operate, and our goal is to create an inclusive environment where diverse employees want to work and where they can flourish.

Ashfield MedComms is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment at Inizio are considered without regards to age, ancestry, color, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Further, pursuant to applicable local ordinances, Inizio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Inizio is an equal opportunity employer M/F/V/D. We appreciate your interest in our company, however; only qualified candidates will be considered.

Ashfield MedComms 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.