At least 12 years of pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences advertising experience, including demonstrated experience managing and developing other account leaders.
A track record of owning financial responsibility for a client business, including job tracking, forecasting, and financial growth.
Strong experience developing multi-tiered account teams, including other people managers.
The ability to represent the agency's point of view with clients and within the organization.
Responsibilities
Champion integrated thinking at scale, ensuring consistency, quality, and strategic rigor across every discipline and every team reporting into the business.
Anticipate industry, competitive, and market shifts at a category level, translating them into proactive guidance for clients and forward-looking business strategy.
Model and instill a culture of accountability, excellence, and continuous growth across all teams within the business.
Own brand financial performance, including forecasting and project tracking, and identify the need for resource-allocation discussions across the business.
Lead, manage, and develop a team of account leaders by setting performance goals, coaching leadership capability, and building succession-ready talent.
Identify, pursue, and direct organic growth through business development.
Shape client strategy and decisions as a trusted partner, anticipating needs across the business rather than only an individual brand.
Develop the account leadership bench, including AGSs and ASs, to strengthen the organization beyond individual client relationships.
Own the financial performance, growth trajectory, and overall health of the business.
Drive organic growth and represent the agency's point of view in the market.
OGILVY HEALTH: WE INSPIRE PEOPLE AND BRANDS TO IMPACT THE WORLD
Guided by this vision, Ogilvy Health, part of WPP, combines borderless creativity, scientific precision and cultural fluency to build healthcare’s most influential movements. We drive measurable impact and category-defining growth for brands ready to shape what’s next. Our approach is powered by fearless creativity that dares to be different, sparks emotional connections, and inspires action, ensuring cultural resonance. Scientific precision translates complex data into stories that resonate, while our impact-obsessed mindset focuses on delivering real-world outcomes.
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com.
About the Role:
The VP, Management Supervisor is a client leadership role responsible for the overall health, growth, and performance of a broad client relationship. This individual owns the strategic direction and financials for their business, oversees multiple account team members, and serves as the primary agency leader in the eyes of client stakeholders, and marketing leadership.
This leader operates at the intersection of client partnership, department leadership, and commercial ownership—setting the vision for how the business grows, ensuring integrated excellence across strategy, creative, medical, analytics, and project management disciplines, and building the next generation of account leadership talent. The VP, Management Supervisor is accountable not only for the performance of their brand, but for the strength, profitability, and trajectory of the business they oversee.
Success in this role requires a strong presence, sharp commercial acumen, the ability to lead, and an unwavering commitment to positioning Ogilvy Health as an indispensable, category-defining partner.
What You'll Do:
Champion integrated thinking at scale, ensuring consistency, quality, and strategic rigor across every discipline and every team reporting into the business.
Anticipate industry, competitive, and market shifts at a category level, translating them into proactive guidance for clients and forward-looking business strategy.
Model and instill a culture of accountability, excellence, and continuous growth across all teams within the business.
Held accountable for brand financial performance, including forecasting, project tracking, and highlight the need for resource allocation discussions across the business.
Lead, manage, and develop a team of account leaders, setting performance goals, coaching leadership capability, and building succession-ready talent.
Actively involved in business development, including identifying, pursuing, and directing for organic growth.
What You'll Need:
12+ years of pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences advertising experience, including demonstrated experience managing and developing other account leaders.
A track record of owning financial responsibility for a client business, including job tracking, forecasting, and financial growth.
Strong experience developing multi-tiered account teams, including other people managers.
Polished presence and the confidence to represent the agency's point of view, both with clients and within the organization.
What Exceptional Looks Like:
At Ogilvy Health, excellence is not defined solely by flawless execution—it is measured by the value we create for our clients, our teams, and our business. For a VP, Management Supervisor, that means setting the standard others rise to meet, and building a business that grows stronger, smarter, and more valuable over time.
Operates as the client's most trusted partner, shaping strategy and decisions rather than simply supporting them. They see around corners for the entire business, not just a single brand.
Builds future leaders, not just teams. They invest in developing the account bench—AGSs, ASs, and beyond—ensuring the organization's strength extends well past their own individual relationships.
Owns the business like an owner. Financial performance, growth trajectory, and overall health across their business are treated as personal accountabilities, not shared responsibilities.
Elevates Ogilvy Health's presence in the market, actively driving organic growth and representing the agency's point of view in ways that shape its reputation.
How We'll Support You
We celebrate our people fully, enthusiastically, and unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed and provide the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. You’ll be supported by colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across our network. We are committed to providing opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.
Pay Range
$100,000—$230,000 USD
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.
We believe in building powerful teams with purpose – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality. Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.
Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
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