Ready to change healthcare?
Sermo, the largest and fastest growing online physician-only community, is leading a movement to fundamentally change healthcare in America. Combining current technology, financial strength, and thousands of dedicated physicians, we aim to radically improve healthcare — for patients, doctors, and the industry as a whole.
We do this by freeing up the most important medical information on the planet — the knowledge living in the minds of physicians. Sermo amplifies physicians’ voices as they share their insights, building on each other’s knowledge while empowering government, industry, investors, research groups, and others to learn and adapt from this rich base of living experience in real-time.
From design and engineering to sales and finance, our people are among the best in their fields. Do you think you have what it takes to help drive this kind of monumental change? After all, it takes a lot of brilliant minds to tackle a goal this colossal — which is why we’d like to know more about yours.
Sermo is currently looking for a full-time Senior Manager for Public Relations. This is a highly-visible position and a dream job: You will drive Sermo’s PR efforts, managing our external media relations team, conference and speaking schedules, dinner events, corporate social responsibility and other outwardly facing efforts.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with Director, Marketing and Communications and CMO to develop annual PR strategy.
- Act as an idea catalyst for our external PR agency, continuously equipping them with story ideas and pitch angles that sustain momentum for strategies and optimize agency performance.
- Ensure significant national and regional press coverage and sustain consistent targeted media exposure.
- Create new story angles and be a very strong “pitch” person, complementing company’s PR agency.
- Draft and route press releases for approval.
- Respond to incoming inquiries from media, and engage agency as needed.
- Assist in development and creation of all press materials including writing and editing press releases, pitch letters, fact sheets, media kits, FAQs and other collaterals.
- Cultivate and maintain strong relationships with healthcare, consumer and business journalists. Must have good knowledge of long lead, short lead and regional press contacts.
- Organize and execute major product press launches, desk side appointments and special events.
- Develop and manage conference and speaking calendar for senior management.
- Develop and manage nationwide dinner series for Sermo CEO with physicians in key cities.
- Research and network to identify appropriate charity, co-marketing, sponsorship, and promotional activities.
- Monitor Sermo content and external news environment to identify opportunities to build Semo’s media profile.
Qualifications
- 5-10 years PR experience, at least 2 in the healthcare arena
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A high-energy team player when it comes to collaborating and contributing ideas
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment while managing several projects simultaneously
- Strong business skills required, including high proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, good communication and presentation skills, excellent report-writing ability and strong project management capabilities
- Bachelors degree required, MBA a plus
So, why join Sermo?
You’ll want to join the team at Sermo for the chance to up your skills on a mission that is as far-reaching as you can imagine — you may be great at what you do, but together we can accomplish so much more.
To apply, please send your resume directly to working@sermo.com
No phone calls please.
It is NOT ok to contact this poster with commercial interests.
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