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Senior Program Specialist - Events & Meetings

Role overview

Summary

This role is for a Senior Program Specialist focused on delivering engaging meetings for global pharmaceutical clients at Parexel. You will manage meeting programs from planning to delivery, collaborating with various teams to create memorable experiences that facilitate learning and knowledge-sharing.

Qualifications

  • Experience in scientific meetings, pharmaceutical events, medical communications or complex event/program management.
  • Strong client-facing and project management skills.
  • Organised, creative and confident project lead.
  • Preferred: Experience within the pharmaceutical or clinical research industry.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with meeting technology or engagement platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Lead meeting programs from kick-off through to delivery and post-event review
  • Develop creative agendas, workshops and interactive engagement formats
  • Manage project timelines, budgets, suppliers and multiple workstreams
  • Support live virtual and in-person meetings, including international travel

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Creativity
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

About the company

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Parexel

  • Clinical Research (CRO)
  • XLarge
  • 10,001+
Parexel is among the world’s largest clinical research organizations (CROs), providing the full range of Phase I to IV clinical development services to help life-saving treatments reach patients faster. Leveraging the breadth of our clinical, regulatory and therapeutic expertise, our team of more than 21,000 global professionals collaborates with biopharmaceutical leaders, emerging innovators and sites to design and deliver clinical trials with patients in mind, increasing access and participation to make clinical research a care option for anyone, anywhere. Our depth of industry knowledge and strong track record gained over the past 40 years is moving the industry forward and advancing clinical research in healthcare’s most complex areas, while our innovation ecosystem offers the best solutions to make every phase of the clinical trial process more efficient. With the people, insight and focus on operational excellence, we work With HeartTM every day to treat patients with dignity and continuously learn from their experiences, so every trial makes a difference. For more information, visit parexel.com. Community Guidelines Because Parexel’s social media channels are open to the general public and employees, we are not responsible for views expressed other than our own. However, we do not tolerate posts that are: • Abusive, harassing or threatening to others. • Defamatory, offensive, obscene, vulgar or depicting violence. • Hateful targeting by race/ethnicity, age, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual preference or orientation, nationality or political beliefs. • Sexually explicit or pornographic. • Fraudulent, deceptive, libelous, misleading or unlawful. • Referencing criminal or illegal activity. • Spamming. We reserve the right to remove any comments that do not adhere to our guidelines as well as report users who violate the rules of our page.

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Job description

When our values align, there's no limit to what we can achieve.
 
At Parexel, we all share the same goal - to improve the world's health. From clinical trials to regulatory, consulting, and market access, every clinical development solution we provide is underpinned by something special - a deep conviction in what we do.

Each of us, no matter what we do at Parexel, contributes to the development of a therapy that ultimately will benefit a patient. We take our work personally, we do it with empathy and we're committed to making a difference.

Senior Program Specialist – Meetings & Engagement

UK Based | Remote/Hybrid | International Travel Required

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Program Specialist to join our collaborative Meeting Services team, delivering innovative and engaging meetings for global pharmaceutical clients.

This is a varied, client-facing role where you’ll take ownership of meeting programs from planning through to live delivery. Working alongside scientific, creative, technology and logistics teams, you’ll turn complex scientific content into engaging meeting experiences that encourage participation, learning and knowledge-sharing.

What you’ll be doing

  • Leading meeting programs from kick-off through to delivery and post-event review
  • Developing creative agendas, workshops and interactive engagement formats
  • Leading client calls and acting as a trusted day-to-day sponsor contact
  • Managing project timelines, budgets, suppliers and multiple workstreams
  • Coordinating scientific content, technology and meeting materials
  • Supporting live virtual and in-person meetings, including international travel
  • Bringing fresh ideas to how scientific content is communicated and experienced

What we’re looking for

- You’ll be an organised, creative and confident project lead with experience in scientific meetings, pharmaceutical events, medical communications or complex event/program management.

- You’ll have strong client-facing and project management skills, be comfortable managing multiple stakeholders and deadlines, and enjoy finding innovative ways to create memorable meeting experiences.

- Experience within the pharmaceutical or clinical research industry and with meeting technology or engagement platforms would be an advantage.


If you’re passionate about creating exceptional meetings and events and enjoy combining creativity with strong project management, we’d love to hear from you.

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