Growth Manager

About This Role

This growth manager role is a hands-on, delivery-focused position that keeps the company's new business engine running day to day. Sitting at the centre of the growth team, the role supports lead generation and prospect research, and owns the practical running of pitch and proposal processes. The role reports to the Associate Growth Director and works closely with Client Services and cross-functional teams to ensure every opportunity is delivered on time, on brief and consistently to a high standard.

Responsibilities

• Support lead generation through prospect research, account and market mapping, and building target lists within priority sectors and therapy areas
• Work to the priorities set by the Associate Growth Director and GM leadership team, keeping outreach activity and trackers updated with live and near-term opportunities
• Build relationships with prospective clients and contacts, supporting senior colleagues on credentials calls and following up afterwards
• Coordinate assigned pitch, credentials and RFI/RFP processes end-to-end under the direction of the Associate Growth Director – capturing and communicating actions, building and managing timelines, and ensuring delivery against agreed milestones to a high standard of clarity and consistency
• Progressively support proposal development by briefing and collating input from Strategy, client teams and subject matter experts, and pulling it together into a clear, well-formatted, on-brand response
• Manage RFI/RFP portal actions and submissions, ensuring all requirements and deadlines are met
• Work with team leads and resourcing to secure the right people for each pitch, and book and protect studio, design and PowerPoint production time
• Set up and run the pitch operating rhythm – kick-off, status calls, check-ins and rehearsals – including rooms, tech and logistics
• Run the day-to-day awards process end-to-end: maintaining the awards calendar and budget tracker, flagging relevant opportunities, briefing and collating entry content, managing approvals, and submitting entries on time
• Support the production of propositions, POVs and go-to-market materials, coordinating input and managing them through to final artwork

Requirements

• Previous agency experience, with a good understanding of what clients are looking for and how agency teams work
• Experience supporting growth/new business - pitches, credentials, and proposals
• Strong project management skills, with the confidence to run timelines and keep several workstreams moving at once
• Proficient in PowerPoint, Word and Excel, and comfortable producing and formatting client-ready materials
• Proactive, organised, and resilient under tight deadlines
• Collaborative – works effectively across teams and is comfortable coordinating, and chasing, senior stakeholders
• Developing commercial awareness: understands agency positioning, market trends and the commercial needs of the business
• A genuine ‘do-er’ – hands-on, happy to own the detail and the admin, and takes pride in getting things over the line
• Operational decision-maker: confident making day-to-day calls on process, timelines and logistics, and knows when to escalate
• Healthcare, pharma, biotech or medtech experience preferable

Benefits

• Up to a 7% pension contribution
• Life insurance
• Income protection
• Private medical insurance
• Flexible working arrangements, including flexible hybrid working
• Option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year
• 25 days of annual leave plus two personal well-being days
• Gifted end-of-year holidays
• Early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August
• Free counselling through employee assistance program
• Personalized health support
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies
• On-demand support from partner Peppy
• Continuous opportunities for professional development with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business

About the Company

Avalere Health is united by the purpose to reach every patient possible, ensuring every patient is identified, treated, supported, and cared for equally. Its Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams collaborate to build a future where healthcare is not a barrier and no patient is left behind. The company operates major city hubs in London, Manchester, Washington, D.C., and New York, and smaller offices globally.