Omnicom Group

Global marketing, media, and PR network

VP Group Account Director

Account ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeNew York, NY, USA$170k - $200k

About the Job

Requirements

At least 10 years of pharmaceutical or healthcare advertising experience; healthcare professional experience is necessary.
Global brand experience is a plus.
Launch experience.
Strong communication and presentation skills.
Strong conceptual skills.
Significant background in pharmaceutical advertising account services.
Ability to craft new-business, creative, tactical, strategy, and selling presentations.
Ability to build and lead a team.
Strong mentoring and coaching skills.
Entrepreneurial skill at building agency business.
Management experience and/or experience working in brand management.
Proficiency in Keynote, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.

Responsibilities

Manage brand strategy and ensure tactical implementation relating to brand strategy.
Provide short- and long-term direction for the brand.
Create new business along brand lines.
Provide strategic direction and approvals at significant steps in the advertising creative process.
Provide strategic perspective on tactical plan-of-action recommendations and pieces before client submission.
Interact with all members of the agency brand team to ensure accurate information exchange and a smooth flow of brand work.
Identify account strengths and weaknesses and recommend changes.
Generate actionable brand insights and present recommendations to clients.
Apply knowledge of innovative healthcare trends and interpret data to generate client insights.
Manage account finances, including forecasting, income generation, and reporting to agency senior leadership.
Build strong relationships with the client team.
Work with the Director of Client Services and Creative Directors to staff the account appropriately for client needs, providing rationale and supporting information for deviations in staffing requirements.
Identify new business opportunities and participate in and present at agency new-business initiatives as requested.
Partner with creative and medical teams to proactively identify brand opportunities.
Advocate for full team participation in field research, meetings, and conferences as brand needs demand.
Serve as brand steward for strategy across professional, public relations, medical education, direct-to-consumer, and global marketing segments.
Present clients with new and unexplored brand opportunities, leveraging network resources such as disease-awareness and public-relations programs, direct-to-consumer, direct-to-patient, market access, and the global network hub.
Ensure the account team is trained in writing contact reports, creative work plans, strategic points of view, agency processes, and brand market knowledge.
Manage collaborations with multiple agencies, both within and outside the network.
Lead scope-of-work and staffing negotiations.
Maintain strong market knowledge of existing competitors and pipeline products in the brand category.
Model the agency's core values of courage, curiosity, generosity, and grit.

Desired Qualifications

Global brand experience is a plus.

Agency:

Remedy Edge

Job Function:

Account Management and Growth

Job Subfunction:

Account Management

Job Description:

Remedy Edge

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Manage brand strategy and ensure tactical implementation relating to brand strategy

Provide short- and long-term direction for brand

Create new business along brand lines

Provide strategic direction and approvals at significant steps in the advertising creative process

Provide strategic perspective on tactical POA recommendations and pieces prior to client submission

Interact with all members of the agency brand team to ensure accuracy of information exchange and smooth flow of brand work

Identify strengths and weaknesses of the account and make recommendations for change

Generate actionable brand insights and present recommendations to clients

Strong grasp of innovative trends in healthcare and ability to interpret data, leveraging brand knowledge for client insight generation

Flawless management of account finances, including forecast and income generation and reporting to Senior Leadership at Agency

Build strong relationships with client team

Work with Director of Client Services and Creative Directors to ensure that account is staffed appropriately to meet client needs, including provision of rationale for deviation in staff requirements and supporting information

Identify new business opportunities and participate and present in agency new business initiatives as requested

Partner with creative and medical teams to regularly and proactively identify brand opportunities

Advocate for full team participation in field research, meetings and conferences as brand need demands

Serve as brand steward as it relates to strategy for all marketing segments, including professional, PR, medical education, DTC, global markets

Provide client with new, and unexplored opportunities for the brand, leveraging network resources such as disease awareness/PR programs, DTC, DTP, market access and global Omnicom network hub pull through

Ensure that account team is trained appropriately with respect to writing contact reports, creative work plans, and strategic points of view, agency process, and brand market knowledge

Ability to manage multiple-agency collaborations both in and outside the network

Ability to lead scope of work and staffing negotiations

Maintain a strong market knowledge of existing competition and pipeline products in brand category

Model core values of Courage, Curiosity, Generosity, and Grit

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

10+ years pharma or healthcare advertising; HCP experience necessary

Global brand experience a plus

Launch experience

Strong communication/presentation skills

Strong conceptual skills

Significant background in pharmaceutical advertising Account Services

Ability to craft presentations (new business, creative, tactical, strategy, selling)

Ability to build and lead a team

Strong mentoring and coaching skills

Entrepreneurial skill at building business for agency

Management and/or work in brand management

Proficient in Keynote, PowerPoint, Excel and Word

170,000 - 200,000

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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About the Company

Omnicom Group

Global marketing, media, and PR network

Omnicom Group is a global marketing and corporate communications holding company that organizes a network of agencies to offer advertising, strategic media planning and buying, digital marketing, and public relations. Its products and services are delivered through this portfolio of agency networks and specialty firms, generating revenue from project-based fees, commissions, and performance-based incentives. The company uses the Omni platform to base marketing and sales solutions on data, helping turn insights into creative campaigns and media plans. Unlike many competitors, Omnicom combines a wide international footprint with a diversified set of agencies and a centralized data-driven approach, and it expands through strategic acquisitions. Its goal is to help clients grow brands and businesses by delivering coordinated, data-informed marketing and communications across markets worldwide.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: IPO
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Founded: 1944

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