Practice Lead, Medical and Scientific Communications

Job Title: Practice Lead, Medical and Scientific Communications

Job Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Location Type: Remote

Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level:

Overview

IQVIA Health Communications Group brings together scientific expertise, healthcare insights, communications strategy, and creativity to deliver high-quality communications that support life sciences organizations and healthcare stakeholders. The group partners with clients across a range of strategic, medical, brand, and commercial communications needs through compliant, audience-focused engagement.

The Practice Lead, Medical and Scientific Communications will lead a specialized healthcare communications practice within IQVIA Health Communications Group, with accountability for client relationships, growth, business development, operational alignment, and people leadership. This leader will be responsible for building a differentiated, scalable offering that combines scientific credibility, stakeholder engagement, medical communications expertise, and technology-enabled delivery. The role will work closely with colleagues across IQVIA to expand client impact, support responsible adoption of new ways of working, and identify opportunities to improve delivery effectiveness.
Responsibilities

- Lead a specialized medical and scientific communications business within IQVIA Health Communications Group, with accountability for clients, revenue, growth, delivery excellence, and people.

- Drive sustainable practice growth through client retention, organic account expansion, and new-business development.

- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and actively participate in strategic client engagements.

- Develop account growth plans and ensure teams identify and pursue opportunities across existing client relationships.

- Lead new-business efforts in partnership with internal stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

- Connect medical and scientific communications offerings with relevant data, technology, analytics, and broader organizational capabilities to create differentiated client solutions.

- Develop and scale a unified market proposition and approach to client delivery that reflects IQVIA Health Communications Group’s breadth of scientific, strategic, creative, and technology-enabled capabilities.

- Establish disciplined business planning, performance tracking, and forecasting processes to identify risks and opportunities early.

- Partner with operational leadership to align staffing, delivery capacity, and projected client demand.

- Support workflow improvements that enable efficient, high-quality delivery across teams and locations.

- Champion responsible adoption of technology-enabled tools and more efficient, insight-informed ways of working.

- Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing team while maintaining a collaborative, inclusive, and client-focused culture.

- Communicate business priorities clearly and guide employees through growth, transformation, and organizational change.

Qualifications

- 10+ years of leadership experience in healthcare communications, HCP engagement, medical communications, pharmaceutical marketing, or a related agency environment.

- Demonstrated success leading and growing a business, portfolio, or client group of comparable scale.

- Proven ability to expand existing client relationships and win new business.

- Strong senior-level client presence and the ability to build trusted, long-term relationships.

- Experience selling integrated solutions that may include communications, content, data, technology, analytics, or related capabilities.

Please note: To be eligible for this remote position, candidates must reside in the same country where the job is located.

IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthca