Senior Presentation Specialist

About Avalere Health

Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.

Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen. 

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The Senior Presentation Specialist (SPS) is an integral part of the US Marketing Growth Team, which is responsible for delivering memorable engagements with potential and existing clients. As SPS, you will work closely with the new business operations team as well as across key functions (Account, Creative, Strategy, Project Delivery) to support the overall pitch process and experience, as well as key internal meetings and client engagements. Through storytelling and design, you will help set the standard at every pitch and bring best practices across US Marketing engagements.

As Senior Presentation Specialist, you will be responsible for working across departments to transform content into engaging, high-quality presentations. You will combine communication and storytelling principles with design expertise to ensure that all presentations are clear, impactful, and memorable. You will be looked to as an expert in communicating information, emotions, ideas, and data. You will create engaging visuals and narratives for pitch presentations, sales presentations, and other business engagements, and provide guidance to internal teams on best practices.

What You'll Do

• Presentation creation: Develop compelling, high-quality presentations and other visual assets.
• Narrative Structure: Understand the overarching communication goals of your presentations, and make content and design choices to help enhance the stories you and the team are crafting.
• Content Layout: Organize and structure presentation content, including text, images, graphs, charts, and multimedia elements, to ensure clarity and coherence. 
• Visual Design: Create visually appealing slide designs, backgrounds, and templates that align with the presentation's message and branding. This includes:

- Designing and sourcing photos, graphics, icons, and illustrations

- Visualizing data in clear, effective, and unique ways

- Ensuring a consistent and clear visual experience through typography, color, formatting, and more

- Adhering to brand guidelines and visual identity standards 

• Slide Transitions and Animation: Apply slide transitions and animation effects as needed to enhance the presentation experience.
• Meaningful "surround sound” engagements: Lead, shape, and execute pre- and post-meeting experiential/visual/creative deliverables to augment and amplify agency experience and differentiation. 

 

Other skills that are crucial to the role include: 

• Team Collaboration: Work closely with internal pitch teams, presenters, subject matter experts, marketing leadership, and the new business operations team to transform content, ideas, and data into compelling stories and visuals that deliver on presentation objectives. 
• Meeting Deadlines: Manage time effectively to meet project deadlines, especially for presentations scheduled for conferences or important business meetings. 
• Staying current: Keep up with industry trends, best practices, and new technologies in presentation design and visual storytelling .
• Providing guidance: Support internal teams with visual communication strategies and effective storytelling techniques. 
• Managing reviews: Incorporate feedback into presentation materials during the review process .
• Collaborating externally: Work with external partners, agencies, and vendors to support presentation production and design. 
• Attention to Detail: Strong attention to detail is essential to ensure that presentations are error-free, visually consistent, and polished to a high degree. 

About You

• Education:A bachelor's degree in graphic design, visual communication, or a related field is ideal but not required. Specialized training in presentation design is highly preferred .
• Experience:A background in art direction, graphic design, or presentation design.
• Software Proficiency: Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop, as well as presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint, Google Slides, etc. Familiarity with motion, video, AI, and other presentation-enhancing software is a plus.

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits. 

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