Director, Financial Communications - Healthcare & Life Sciences

About the role

We are currently looking for a Director to join our Financial Communications team with a focus on Healthcare and Life Sciences.

Responsibilities

• Client Delivery
  • 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.
• Business Development
  • 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.
• Healthcare and Life Sciences and Financial Communications Teams
  • 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.
  • Aid 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.
• Additional Tasks
  • 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in one of the following areas: 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.