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We are Audience.
A fast-growing global communications agency built around our passion for creative excellence and inspiring meaningful change.
With offices in Switzerland, Canada, Singapore and the UK, we are uniquely placed to support our clients, who are some of the largest healthcare and life science companies in the world.
From these clients, and the patients they serve, to the colleagues and partners we collaborate with, people are at our core.
Individually we bring different experiences, skills and fresh perspectives. Together, we are a winning team with a cognitive diversity that sets us apart.
We are dedicated to our craft, placing the audience at the centre of the distinctive event experiences and compelling engagement strategies we create.
If you’re a true team player and want your work to have a real impact, this could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.
Current opportunities
Basel
Our Basel office is located in the historic centre of Basel known as one of most buzzing tram hubs in the city. Our working space is minutes away from the SBB train station either on foot or by tram. One of special advantages of being in the old town is the mix of traditional architecture and modern amenities that are offered just beyond our doorstep. During lunch, take a stroll through the vibrant shopping district of Freie Strasse or for dog lovers, why not enjoy a walk and talk meeting in the beautiful Münsterplatz square with one of our team’s loveable dogs.
There is always something to celebrate in our team, and we’re never short on enthusiastic events so don’t forget to bring your “Wickelfisch” swim bag for a quick spontaneous dip in the Rhine river!
Basel:
Account Manager
Job description
Audience-centric thinking that inspires meaningful change.
We are looking for great strategic thinkers to join our growing Basel-based team.
Focused on building long-lasting, trusted relationships, you will help clients navigate challenges and opportunities across internal communications and audience engagement.
You will be an integral part of the wider company, just as happy getting ‘stuck in’ as you are leading a team. Reporting to the Account Director, you will draw upon your people skills, communication expertise, and latest insights from industry and clients, to provide ongoing strategic direction to the business. Fascinated by human behavior and the value of effective communication, you’re happiest when helping connect the dots, suggesting ideas, and collaborating closely with peers and clients alike to deliver meaningful change for our clients.
Hybrid working pattern - We are open to discussion regarding flexible working
Key responsibilities:
- Developing an excellent understanding of the value of Audience services, and combining these with an awareness of the latest communication and meetings and events industry changes and best practices, and applying this knowledge to create meaningful change for our clients
- Representing Audience and our values with clients, partners, and at an industry events
- Working with the Senior Account Manager / Account Director to gain an understanding of the Audience strategic plan, and as an Account Manager, how to contribute to support company gr
- Contributing to the account strategy and taking responsibility to ensure both account retention and growth
- Building solid relationships, mutual trust and respect with clients
- Building a deep understanding of clients, their organisation, internal audiences, and industry communication needs, challenges, and objectives
- Leading proposal development and contributing to requests for proposal (RFPs) when required
- Building and securing project scopes and appropriate project teams, with support from resourcing and production functions, based on knowledge of the client's requirements and Audience's expertise
- Utilising knowledge of client needs, challenges and objectives, and Audience's services to provide strategic insight and appropriate direction to the internal project team, to ensure projects deliver on the client brief and achieve their objectives to the highest quality
- Leading project teams, providing clear briefs, motivation, and focus. Using a hands-on management style, working closely with colleagues and partners to ensure they understand and proactively deliver on project briefs, that upholds the vitality of the agency/client relationship
- Ensuring projects are delivered within budget, acting as the day-to-day escalation point for queries. Managing client expectations and obtaining client approval if scopes evolve (up or down)
- Ensuring project learnings are captured and carried forward to future projects.
Specific Skills required
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Experience with Google Workspace
- Proficient in Microsoft 365
- Knowledge of customer relationship management (CRM) tools/platforms a plus
About you …
- Excellent client management experience, confident in building relationships and pitching new ideas to senior stakeholders
- 4+ years successful communications and event management experience, ideally in Healthcare (Pharma, Biotech, Diagnostics)
- 4+ years of business development experience, ideally with a focus on strategic communications and event planning
- Excellent understanding of event marketing and audience engagement strategies. Ideally using integrated digital communications
- The ability to assist clients in understanding and defining objectives from an audience perspective
- Ability to build new networks and identify new business opportunities, both within current client organizations and also potential new clients
- A can do attitude, with strong collaboration and cross-functional leadership skills
- Excellent written and verbal English language communication skills
- Flexible, versatile, and copes well under pressure
- Proven experience meeting deadlines and communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders
- Demonstrates the ability to innovate and challenge the status quo
- Experience managing a team
Career progression
We are ambitious and want our team to be too. We offer opportunities for individuals to progress personally and professionally to achieve their full potential, thriving on new challenges across the business.
Our Audience Advance learning platform provides individuals with an inspired way to learn, in their own way at their own pace.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, and a flexible 42.5 hour working week in a hybrid working pattern.
To apply
Please send your CV and Covering letter (explaining why you are interested and suitable for the role) and any relevant examples of work to Sacha McCollum, our Culture Lead at sacha.mccollum@audience-communication.com
Cambridge
Our Cambridge team is based in a modern, inspiring, sustainably designed office space on Cambridge Science Park. We have an on-site café and a lush green outdoor workspace (for those sunny days); we are dog friendly and enjoy regular team socials, and with free unlimited hot drinks, it’s a great working environment with a buzzing team spirit. With a cycle park, free on-site car parking, and less than a mile from Cambridge North station, we are easily accessible.
Cambridge:
Senior Graphic Designer
Location: Cambridge Science Park
Hybrid working pattern (minimum of 3 days per week in the office) - We are open to discussion regarding flexible working
Job description
We have a fantastic opportunity for a senior graphic designer to join our global team based in Cambridge. We’re looking for a talented creative thinker with a clear understanding of strategic foundations, and a passionate designer who has the ability and flair to craft compelling digital and experiential design solutions.
As the senior designer in Cambridge, you will play a key role in shaping how we present our work, grow our brand and champion our unique audience approach to elevate our client's internal, corporate and brand communications. Reporting to the Head of Creative, you will own your projects, advancing high-level thinking and strategic vision to create visually compelling design solutions. You will be proactive, taking the lead and not waiting to be led. You'll seek innovations and push boundaries.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide inspirational design ideas, graphic execution and direction across client work and pitches, proactively challenging the brief where necessary to develop dynamic, creative designs that realise the client’s objectives
- Contribute to holistic design and strategic thinking around how to elevate the audience experience, how to enhance the audience journey end-to-end
- Work closely with the Head of Creative and creative directors to understand the commercial objectives and creative strategy of client work, helping to rationalise and articulate design solutions and lead the design and development of the design solutions
- Champion our unique audience approach and continue to elevate our Brand identity and brand communications
- Provide expertise in the design and delivery of creative concepts and be able to clearly present and articulate your design ideas to the project team and clients
- Own the creative design and development of a design project end-to-end from concept visuals to final artwork, designing the look and feel across the full spectrum of creative needs and assets
- Collaborate with specialist partners to further develop more complex digital graphics, video and platforms.
- Attend on-site events to ensure all design is ready, provide expertise in the design and take leadership in the delivery
- Act with speed, creativity and precision to resolve any problems the client might face both proactively and responsively
- Juggle a wide variety of tasks depending on a project’s needs. Effectively manage your time to efficiently deliver projects on time and within budget
- Share your knowledge and offer support to the broader team of colleagues and partners, accommodating last-minute requests whilst juggling large and small-scale projects concurrently
- Continually propose new innovative solutions. Be proactive in the researching and learning new digital innovations, platforms, and experiential ideas and master new technology and tools
- Collaborate and give direction to freelance designers, creatives and external partners.
- Act as a mentor for more junior members of the creative team.
Specific Skills required …
- Experience working in a creative agency is a must
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8+ years’ experience working in a creative agency or in-house
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Meticulous attention to detail
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Project leadership skills and experience
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Strong communication skills to articulate concepts and lead other designers
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Fluency across graphic design, typography, photography and illustration
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Digital, Presentation, Motion, Video, Web, Experiential and Print
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Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills
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Excellent Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign skills
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Good After Effects, Premiere, and Audition skills
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HTML + CSS a strong advantage
About you …
- Creative. Curious. Passionate about your craft
- Excellent problem-solving skills and sense of accountability
- Clear communicator at all levels of business
- Ability to focus when faced with multiple demands
- Strong prioritisation skills and time management
- Comfortable with soft and hard targets
- Self-motivated, optimistic with a strong work ethic
- Well schooled in patience and diplomacy
Career Progression
We are ambitious and want our team to be too. We offer opportunities for individuals to progress personally and professionally to achieve their full potential, thriving on new challenges across the business.
Our Audience Advance learning platform provides individuals with an inspired way to learn, in their own way at their own pace.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, holiday, a flexible 40-hour working week and a hybrid working pattern.
To apply
Please send your CV, Covering letter (explaining why you are interested and suitable for the role) and a copy of your portfolio to abby.cox@audience-communication.com
Cambridge:
Digital Graphic Designer
Location: Cambridge Science Park
Hybrid working pattern (minimum of 3 days per week in the office) - We are open to discussion regarding flexible working
Job description
Creativity that inspires meaningful change.
We are looking for a great creative mind, and a graphic and digital genius to join our team based out of our Cambridge office.
On each individual project, you will work on a cross-disciplinary team, developing the design elements alongside other creatives both in-house and freelance.
You will be an integral part of the wider creative team serving our clients, designing their internal brand and corporate communications. Reporting to the Head of Creative, you will develop high-level ideas into visually compelling graphics and digital communications. You will be proactive and innovative, elevating both our client work as well as developing the Audience brand.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide inspirational design ideas, graphic execution and direction across client work and pitches, proactively challenging the brief where necessary to develop dynamic, creative designs that realise the client’s objectives
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Interrogate briefs, discuss needs, devise, craft, and explore inspiring creative ideas.
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Design and deliver creative concepts and clearly present and articulate your design ideas to clients and other members of the design team.
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Develop dynamic creative designs that realise the clients’ objectives.
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Own the creative design and development of a design project end to end from concept visuals to final artwork, designing the look and feel across the full spectrum of creative needs and assets.
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Collaborate with specialist partners to further develop more complex digital graphics, video and platforms.
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Attend on-site events to ensure all design is ready.
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Act with speed, creativity and precision to resolve any design problems the client might face both proactively and responsively. Juggle a wide variety of design tasks depending on a project’s needs.
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Share your technical knowledge and offer support to the broader team of colleagues and partners, accommodating last-minute requests whilst juggling large and small-scale projects concurrently
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Research, explore and learn new innovations, digital platforms, experiential ideas and master new technology and tools.
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Collaborate and give direction to freelance designers, creatives and external partners.
About you …
- Creative. Curious. Passionate about your craft
- Excellent problem-solving skills and sense of accountability
- Clear communicator at all levels of business
- Ability to focus when faced with multiple demands
- Strong prioritisation skills and time management
- Comfortable with soft and hard targets
- Self-motivated, optimistic with a strong work ethic
- Well-schooled in patience and diplomacy
Specific Skills required …
- Experience working in a creative agency or in-house design team
- Meticulous attention to detail
- Fluency in graphic design, typography, photography and illustration
-
Digital, Presentation, Motion, Video, Web, Experiential and Print
-
Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills
-
Excellent Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign skills
-
Good After Effects, Premiere, and Audition skills
-
HTML + CSS a strong advantage
Career Progression
We are ambitious and want our team to be too. We offer opportunities for individuals to progress personally and professionally to achieve their full potential, thriving on new challenges across the business.
Our Audience Advance learning platform provides individuals with an inspired way to learn, in their own way at their own pace.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, holiday, a flexible 40-hour working week and a hybrid working pattern.
To apply
Please send your CV, Covering letter (explaining why you are interested and suitable for the role) and a copy of your portfolio to abby.cox@audience-communication.com
Cambridge:
Account Manager
Job description
Reporting to the Account Director, the Account Manager's tasks and responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
- Developing an excellent understanding of the value of Audience services, and combining these with meetings and events industry best practices to bring meaningful change for our clients.
- Working with the Account Director, contributing to the client account strategy and taking responsibility, to ensure both account retention and growth.
- Leading the client project teams, providing a clear brief, motivation, and focus. Using a hands-on management style, working closely with them to ensure they understand and proactively deliver on the project brief.
- Ensuring projects are delivered within budget, acting as the day-to-day escalation point for queries.
- Ensuring project learnings are captured and carried forward to future projects. Building strong relationships, mutual trust and respect, with clients.
- Building a deep understanding of clients, their organisation, internal audiences, and industry communication needs, challenges, and objectives.
- Leading proposal development and contributing to RFPs when required.
Experience
- Proven Snr Account Executive / Jnr Account Manager experienced in the world of internal communications and/or event marketing.
- Experience working with large corporate clients within a marketing communications agency environment.
- Ideal sector experience – B2B, innovation, science and technology sectors’ lead experience – Life sciences and pharmaceutical experience preferable but not critical.
- Have managed and delivered omni-channel communications projects from end to end, with projects including elements of strategy, creative, content development, production and digital.
- The ability to assist clients in understanding and defining objectives from an audience perspective.
- Excellent problem-solving skills, able to come up with solutions and overcome obstacles.
- A can-do attitude, with strong collaboration and leadership skills.
- Clear and confident project management, financial management and decision-making skills.
- Strong at presenting and articulating ideas.
To apply
Please send your CV, Covering letter (explaining why you are interested and suitable for the role) and any relevant examples of work to Sacha McCollum, our Culture Lead at sacha.mccollum@audience-communication.com