Strategic Lifesciences

Brand Commercialization
& Marketing Communications

A Cross-Sector Healthcare Consultancy: Precision, Perspective, and Results

Extensive Expertise in Life Sciences Marketing
Over 25 years of crafting strategic, multidimensional solutions

With more than 25 years of experience in healthcare commercialization, marketing and communications, VectoRx has consistently delivered pragmatic, results-driven solutions tailored to the evolving needs of the pharmaceutical industry. It's work is deeply rooted in Rx, covering a wide spectrum of therapy areas and asset classes. This extensive background provides a comprehensive understanding of the industry’s complexities, enabling us to navigate challenges and seize opportunities with confidence.

Global Expertise with a Holistic Perspective
Insights across health systems, agency dynamics, and diverse stakeholders

VectoRx global experience spans diverse health systems and markets, allowing translation of pharmaceutical marketing strategies into real-world applications. We bring deep knowledge of the intricate dynamics between agencies and clients, shaped by increasingly complex project delivery mechanisms. Having worked across all agency types, client functions, and stakeholder groups—including, eg healthcare providers, payers, and patient advocacy organizations—we deliver a uniquely holistic and unbiased perspective on every initiative.

Strategic Precision at VectoRx
Delivering impactful outcomes with clarity and focus

At VectoRx, success begins with a clear destination—a meticulous assessment of the challenge and a well-defined flight plan. By identifying the true issues behind the brief, we develop strategic solutions with precision, ensuring they address critical needs while aligning seamlessly with overarching objectives. Our approach guarantees outcomes that are not only impactful but also strategically aligned to drive long-term success.

Tim Passey

Owner

I am a globally experienced life sciences communications strategist and commercialization partner, with a track record of leadership roles in agency holding groups including IPG and WPP and specialist independents across key global regions. | My diverse background, including start-up environments, enables me to quickly identify pragmatic pathways to achieve commercial objectives for both clients and agencies. | With extensive experience collaborating across client functions, I bring an agnostic mindset that fosters innovative solutions. Overcoming structural barriers has been a cornerstone of my career, allowing me to frame strategies that effectively dismantle silos on both agency and client sides. This approach has been particularly critical in start-up and joint venture scenarios, where agility and integration are paramount.

Overcoming inertia to drive effective, focussed, integrated solutions

Why Choose VectoRx?
Driving Momentum with Effective, Integrated Solutions

At VectoRx, we specialize in overcoming the inertia that often hinders the rapid execution of projects and campaigns. In today’s fast-paced environment, delays in articulating clear goals and aligning teams around critical objectives can significantly impact outcomes. That’s where we come in.

With a focus on lateral thinking and strategic integration, VectoRx helps clients break free from the bottlenecks that slow progress. We ensure that from the outset, the desired endpoint is clearly defined and teams are unified around the mission at hand—delivering the urgency and clarity your asset situation demands.

Our Approach
Strategic Integration for the Right Solutions at the Right Time

While specialization is key to crafting robust strategies, deploying it in isolation or at the wrong time can distort the bigger picture. At VectoRx, we view challenges in their broader context, ensuring the right questions are asked and the solution is framed with a holistic perspective. This means tasks are tackled with precision and delivery aligns seamlessly with your broader objectives.

Our process ensures your projects are:
  • Focused: Tailored to the critical nature of the ask.
  • Integrated: Connected across strategic elements like market access, medical affairs, customer experience, and creative campaigns.
  • Optimized: Solutions are refined at the margins to maximize utility and align perfectly with the problem mix.
What You Can Expect
Solutions That Stand Alone and Work in Context

True utility is achieved when every element of your strategy connects seamlessly. VectoRx ensures your outcomes are not only impactful in isolation but also harmonized with your overarching goals—whether that’s engaging key opinion leaders, enhancing market access, or delivering a compelling creative campaign.

With VectoRx, you gain:

  • A partner who understands the macro challenges and the fine details.
  • Solutions that drive momentum and deliver measurable results.
  • A strategy that is both agile and integrated, ensuring long-term success.

Delivering pragmatic, multidimensional and real world answers

Strategic Communications Expertise
Integrated solutions for pharma, consumer health, and healthcare agencies

VectoRx provides pragmatic, multidimensional strategic communications consulting solutions to pharma, consumer health, and healthcare agencies. Built on a solid scientific foundation and driven by a commercial core, we bring decades of experience crafting creative campaigns and impactful communications across some of the most demanding therapy areas and healthcare settings worldwide.

Comprehensive Agency Collaboration
Delivering integrated partnerships across the agency spectrum

We operate across the entire agency spectrum, from content development and client servicing to business growth, leadership, and strategic planning. We lead integrated agency partnerships, aligning specialties such as publishing, media, customer experience, digital, data, and research into cohesive, tailored offerings. Every solution is developed with careful consideration of the unique demands and opportunities of each challenge.

Stakeholder-Centric Solutions
Bridging internal and external stakeholders for success

On the stakeholder side, we work closely with global directors across pharma’s core pillars, as well as global physician experts, country-level experts, professional associations, patient advocacy groups, and market access influencers. With 25 years of nuanced critical thinking, we excel at pinpointing the real challenges and delivering robust, unblinkered solutions that address the core questions with precision and clarity.

Rx to Consumer Health Evolution
Tackling traditional and future healthcare communication challenges

From traditional Rx healthcare communications—including advertising, PR, and patient engagement—to tackling the evolving consumer health landscape and the growing consumer imperative within constrained healthcare systems, VectoRx offers the vision, expertise, and agility to deliver results.

 

Brand Strategy

BRAND STRATEGY & MARKET INSIGHTS | Comprehensive market assessments to inform actionable go-to-market (GTM) strategies | Precision positioning and strategic planning tailored to business objectives | Development of integrated marketing and communications strategies that align with your brand’s goals | LAUNCH & IMPLEMENTATION EXCELLENCE | Robust launch strategies that set the foundation for market success | Seamless omnichannel implementation for consistent engagement across platforms | Data-driven research and insights to refine tactics and optimize performance.

 

Business Growth

DRIVING BUSINESS GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT | Opportunity Assessment: Identifying and evaluating growth prospects to maximize impact | New Client Engagement: Building meaningful connections to expand your client base | Strategic Backgrounding: Conducting in-depth analysis to inform business decisions. | LEADERSHIP IN STRATEGY & CLIENT SUCCESS | Pitch Direction and Leadership: Crafting compelling pitches that resonate and win business | Account Rescue: Revitalizing underperforming accounts with innovative strategies and hands-on leadership.

 

Business Transformation

TRANSFORMING BUSINESSES FOR STRATEGIC GROWTH | Agency Launch: Successfully establishing new agencies with a clear strategic direction | Repositioning: Redefining brand identity and market presence to stay competitive | SEAMLESS INTEGRATION & MARKET EXPANSION | Unit Integration: Aligning teams and operations for cohesive and efficient workflows | Acquisitions: Strategically managing mergers and acquisitions for maximum value | New Market Development: Identifying and entering high-potential markets to drive growth.

 

Science-Powered Communications

STRATEGIC SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE | Strategic Planning: Crafting data-driven strategies to align scientific goals with business objectives | Medical Affairs Strategy: Designing impactful approaches to support product success and stakeholder engagement | Target Product Profiling: Developing comprehensive profiles to position products effectively in the market | CONTENT & MESSAGING INNOVATION | CME Content Strategy: Creating evidence-based educational strategies for continuing medical education | Content Development and Messaging Strategy: Shaping compelling narratives that resonate with diverse audiences | Creative Team Integration: Bridging science and creativity to deliver cohesive, impactful campaigns | DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHTS | Research and Insights: Leveraging robust research to refine strategies and inform decision-making.

 

Marketing Strategy to Implementation

STRATEGIC PLANNING & POSITIONING | Market Research and Analysis: Conducting in-depth research to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities within the competitive landscape | Target Audience Segmentation: Defining and prioritizing audience groups to tailor messaging and maximize engagement | Value Proposition Development: Crafting clear, compelling propositions that align with customer needs and market demands. CONTENT & CAMPAIGN EXECUTION | Integrated Campaign Development: Designing cohesive campaigns across digital, print, and experiential channels for maximum impact | Messaging and Creative Strategy: Creating compelling, brand-aligned narratives that resonate with diverse audiences | Omnichannel Implementation: Coordinating campaigns across multiple platforms to ensure consistent, effective outreach. | PERFORMANCE INSIGHTS & OPTIMIZATION | Analytics and Metrics: Leveraging data to track campaign performance and identify areas for improvement | A/B Testing: Refining strategies through iterative testing to maximize engagement and ROI | Feedback Integration: Incorporating customer and stakeholder feedback to continuously evolve marketing tactics.

 

Customer Experience

TRANSFORMING CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES | Customer Experience Strategy: Designing seamless and impactful experiences tailored to patients and healthcare professionals (HCPs) | Journey Mapping: Charting detailed patient and HCP journeys to identify key touchpoints and optimize engagement. ENGAGEMENT & EXPERT COLLABORATION | External Expert Strategy and Engagement: Building meaningful relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs) and external experts to amplify impact | Patient Engagement: Developing strategies that prioritize patient needs, fostering trust, and driving meaningful connections.

Medical Publisher and Healthcare Communications Agency Strategic Market Expansion

Medical Publisher and Healthcare Communications Agency Strategic Market Expansion

VectoRx was engaged to spearhead market entry for a growth agency's strategic expansion to Europe. VectoRx developed and executed a comprehensive business plan that addressed the challenges and leveraged the client's unique strengths while in parallel setting in place operational pillars and initiating hiring.

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Launch Strategy for a Cardiovascular Asset Portfolio

Launch Strategy for a Cardiovascular Asset Portfolio

The client, a growth health communications agency retained VectoRx to manage a significant pitch opportunity for a global pharma client's complex phase II/III portfolio launch, and initiate implementation of the subsequent win.

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Big Four Agency APAC Offering Expansion

Big Four Agency APAC Offering Expansion

VectoRx was engaged to launch one of the big four advertising agency holding groups' specialist below-the-line healthcare operations in Asia Pacific to complement its existing promotional advertising business and significantly grow its key Asian healthcare operations.

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Transforming Bariatric Surgical Patient Recruitment in MENA

Transforming Bariatric Surgical Patient Recruitment in MENA

VectoRx was retained to help the client transform access to the bariatric surgery market in Saudi Arabia through better understanding of and integration into multidisciplinary care and patient-centered pathways, driving both clinical excellence and commercial success.

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Launching a Strategic Communications Agency in China

Launching a Strategic Communications Agency in China

VectoRx was retained to explore prospects for, develop a business case and ultimately operationalize and relaunch an agency's business in China

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Integrated OOH and Digital Advertising Strategy for an Rx-to-OTC Switch Product

Integrated OOH and Digital Advertising Strategy for an Rx-to-OTC Switch Product

VectoRx was retained by a consumer healthcare agency to direct strategy for its consumer healthcare client's acquisition of an Rx brand approved by regulators for switch from Rx to OTC.

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Optimizing the Digital Advertising Strategy for a Consumer Wellness Client

Optimizing the Digital Advertising Strategy for a Consumer Wellness Client

An advertising agency for a rising player in the consumer wellness space with a recently-acquired, recently switched (P-to-OTC) asset approached VectoRx with a critical challenge: developing the client's optimal digital advertising strategy

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Privacy Policy for Lead Generation on LinkedIn

We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled securely and responsibly. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect the data you provide to us through LinkedIn lead generation activities.

1. Data Collection
When you engage with our content, submit a form, or interact with us on LinkedIn, we may collect the following information:
  • Your name, job title, company, and LinkedIn profile information.
  • Your email address and/or phone number, if provided.
  • Any additional information you voluntarily share in forms or messages.
2. How We Use Your Data
We use the information collected to:
  • Respond to your inquiries or requests.
  • Share relevant information, resources, or services that match your interests.
  • Improve our content, services, and communication strategies.
We will never sell your data or share it with third parties for their marketing purposes.

3. Data Protection
Your data is securely stored and accessible only to authorized personnel. We use industry-standard security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, or disclosure.

4. Your Rights
You have the right to:
  • Access the personal information we hold about you.
  • Request corrections to your data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Withdraw consent and request that we delete your data.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at [Your Contact Email Address].

5. Third-Party Tools
We may use LinkedIn tools and analytics to better understand engagement and improve our outreach. Any data processed by LinkedIn is subject to LinkedIn’s privacy policies.

6. Updates to This Policy
We may update this policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. The latest version will always be available here.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or how your data is handled, please contact us at tim.passey@vecto-rx.com