Vice President - Account Director

Company description

At Saatchi & Saatchi Health, we believe in making the impossible possible in health. We partner with our clients to turn complexity into clarity, ideas into impact, and ambition into real-world outcomes. 

By combining creativity, data, and technology, we create work that doesn’t just reach people--it moves them, connects with them, and makes a difference in their lives. Because when our people bring curiosity and courage to the work, we unlock new possibilities for our clients, and better outcomes for the patients they serve. We’re here to push what health can be. And to make it matter.

Overview


Responsibilities

• Know Your Business

  • Anticipate market trends, shifts in the client’s business, and emerging opportunities that may affect long-term performance.

  • Connect client needs to broader business strategy and guide decisions using business insight, data, and judgment.

  • Serve as a trusted advisor who brings a clear perspective on what the client and agency should do next.

  Drive Growth

  • Establish and own the organic growth agenda for assigned businesses.

  • Develop a multi-year growth agenda that identifies priority opportunities, relationship expansion needs, capability gaps, and the actions required to convert growth.

  • Maintain visibility into qualified opportunities and lead senior growth conversations from need identification through recommendation, scope, and conversion.

  • Expand relationships beyond immediate stakeholders and create measurable client and agency value through new solutions and capabilities.

  Own the Value

  • Drive revenue, profitability, staffing, and overall business performance for assigned businesses

  • Use leading and lagging indicators to assess business health and intervene before performance, client confidence, or talent stability is compromised.

  • Balance investments, resources, growth opportunities, and client outcomes to create sustainable long-term value.

  • Identify opportunities to incorporate data, emerging technology, and AI-enabled solutions into client solutions and account operations.

  • Use modern tools to strengthen decision-making, effectiveness, and value creation.

  • Champion responsible adoption and help teams translate new capabilities into practical client and business impact.

  Activate the Network

  • Connect Publicis Health and Groupe expertise to significant client business challenges and opportunities.

  • Mobilize the right leaders and capabilities to create differentiated, integrated solutions.

  • Build effective operating models that enable disciplines and agencies to work together against shared business outcomes.

  Build Trust and Influence

  • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior clients and expand influence across the client organization.

  • Lead high-stakes conversations and influence decisions through expertise, judgment, executive presence, and a clear commercial point of view.

  • Build durable senior client and cross-functional relationships, beyond the marketing organization, that strengthen the partnership.

  Invest in People

  • Develop managers and senior talent and prepare future business leaders.

  • Own performance and development expectations for the account team and make informed staffing and promotion recommendations in partnership with discipline and agency leadership.

  • Build leadership capability, accountability, and growth while creating a strong succession pipeline.

Qualifications

• 8–12+ years of progressively responsible account and business leadership experience, ideally within healthcare marketing or a similarly complex client environment.

  Demonstrated experience owning client businesses, financial performance, senior relationships, integrated teams, and organic growth conversion.

  Strong business, financial, strategic, and commercial acumen.

  Track record of connecting client challenges to integrated solutions and broader Publicis Health and Groupe capabilities.

  A consultative, commercially minded leadership style with strong judgment, influence, and executive presence.

  Experience using emerging technology, data, and AI-enabled solutions to strengthen decision-making, effectiveness, and client value.

  Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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Compensation Range: USD $121,315.00 - USD $194,220.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/30/2026.