Executive Assistant to the CEO, Avalere Health
Global healthcare communications agency
Open for applications
Global healthcare communications agency
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To imagine new possibilities for a healthier world and create the connections that make better health happen.
Role
Who you are
- Ideally 10+ years experience in a senior support role
- Highly proactive with exceptional anticipation and forward planning skills
- Strong governance and Board-level experience
- Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills
- High discretion and sound judgement
- Comfortable influencing senior leaders and holding stakeholders to account
- Strong organisational, project management, and follow-through capability
- Strong PowerPoint skills, with the ability to create professional decks and continue building AI-enabled efficiencies
- Experience using AI and LLM tools, integrating them into standard workflows, and building AI-enabled processes around the latest technologies
What the job involves
- As Executive Assistant to the CEO, you’ll play a key role in helping our CEO stay focused, connected and ahead of priorities. This is a highly visible and senior role where you’ll manage a busy schedule, support smooth communication with the Global Leadership Team (GLT) and wider organization, and help keep important governance processes and strategic projects on track
- It’s much more than diary management — you’ll be trusted to coordinate Board activity, support leadership meetings and bring structure, pace and clarity to the CEO’s day-to-day priorities
- Act as a trusted extension of the CEO, reinforcing expectations, standards, and strategic focus
- Strategically manage a complex global diary across multiple time zones, balancing internal, external, Board and leadership priorities
- Support the CEO in driving alignment, accountability, and delivery across the Global Leadership Team (GLT)
- Partner with the CEO to design and manage the cadence of GLT meetings, including agenda setting, prioritization, and pre-reads
- Ensure strategic priorities are clearly articulated, tracked, and regularly reviewed, including key milestones and owners
- Monitor progress against agreed objectives and proactively flag risks, delays, or interdependencies
- Follow up with GLT members to ensure actions are delivered on time and to the required standard
- Support preparation for key leadership offsites, strategy sessions, and planning cycles
- Facilitate alignment across functions by identifying overlaps, gaps, and opportunities for cross-functional collaboration
- Build trusted relationships across the organization and externally to enable seamless coordination and stakeholder alignment
- Help drive clarity around decision rights, ownership, and accountability across the leadership team
Our take
Avalere Health, founded in 2001 and formerly known as Fishawack, has built a strong reputation as a leading provider of cross-border strategy consultation, communications, and marketing expertise for companies in the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
Though the company doesn’t make its exact customer list public knowledge, it does claim to serve all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world, as well as several breakout biotech and medtech enterprises. In the over two decades since its founding, it has acquired and merged 19 healthcare firms worldwide - including Avalere Health, from which it takes its new name.
Given that it’s grown from one location in the UK to encompass teams across the US, Europe, and Asia, the company appears to operate from a position of serious strength in this trillion-dollar space. Recently, it seems Avalere has focussed on building out its leadership team as it embraces its new branding and manifesto.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- The tools, skills, and support you need to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges
- Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career
- Personalized learning and training
- Hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization
- Flexible working practices
- Company pension/retirement plan
- Private medical insurance
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Compelling time-off policy
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Leadership
Amar Urhekar
(CEO)Was previously the COO of Avalere Health, Group President at Evoke, Global President at Ashfield Health and was President of the Americas at McCann Health.
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