Account Director (Health)

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$60K/yr – $140K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Drive client relationships and lead integrated advertising programs for health/ wellness brands at a senior agency level.

  • Own client relationships and strategic advisory across 360 campaigns.
  • Must-have: 6+ years in marketing/agency with omni-channel experience.
  • Standout: Leadership of junior account teams and cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Job Description

Drive client relationships and lead integrated advertising programs for health/ wellness brands at a senior agency level.

  • Own client relationships and strategic advisory across 360 campaigns.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their business goals, needs, and challenges.
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, providing strategic guidance and expert advice on advertising and marketing initiatives.
  • Develop a deep understanding of clients' industries, competitors, and target audience to provide effective and relevant solutions.
  • Help clients weigh options, evaluate trade-offs and make decisions
  • Creative Collaborator and Creative Champion
  • Own workstreams, report to the VP or SVP to build a project path from the ground up, and work closely with your agency partners, including Creative, Strategy/Planning, Project Management, Talent, and Finance.
  • Manage strategic creative development, production, and post-production of advertising communications, including but not limited to film (broadcast and online), print, and social.
  • Develop accurate budgets and timelines and manage budget in partnership with Project Management and Finance, support Senior Account Leadership by continuously reviewing financial performance at the top and bottom line, and successfully forecast against a project pipeline and guide investment decisions toward healthy agency profitability. Closely manage and track the agency SOW with clients and identify opportunities for incremental scope.
  • Oversee content shoots (including attending pre-production meetings and shoots), supervise post-production processing (including process review, rough cuts, etc), and work on digital and social initiatives (website builds, upkeep, social media, landing pages, and microsites). Deep understanding of the production process across channels (digital, static, social, etc).

Requirements

  • 6+ years in a related environment (marketing, agency, product, etc).
  • Experience in full 360 integrated work, including but not limited to TV, content, digital, social, and OOH.
  • Experience in developing and leading work in omni-channel format.
  • Experience in partnering with clients and strategy team in shaping, leading the prep for, and implementing insights from market-research projects.
  • Experience in building strong client relationships that result in excellent work and drive organic growth.
  • Experience in effective account housekeeping (timelines and budget development and management).
  • Proven track record of supervising and developing junior Account talent.

Preferred

  • Creative
  • Productive
  • Collaborative
  • Adaptable

Benefits

  • We offer a competitive benefits package
  • hybrid approach including required in-office days
Grey logo

Grey

Grey’s mission is to create Famously Effective ideas that move people, business, and the world forward—harnessing the power of creativity to solve business problems and deliver growth for the world’s most influential brands and companies including P&G, Volvo, Haleon, Circle K, and The Coca-Cola Company, among others. This year alone, Grey was recognized as a 2025 Fast Company World Changing Ideas winner, earned 7 Grand Prix from prestigious global award shows, and secured 22 Lions at the 2025 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including a Gold Lion in every region. Newsweek also named Grey a Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace (2024) and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women and Professional Services (2025). Grey is part of WPP (NYSE:WPP).

Founded in 1917
New York, New York, USA
3.3K employees (1,260 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
92.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
45.1%
Direct
40.8%
Referral
9.5%
Social
3.3%
Paid
1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.4K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
516 (16% of company)

Recent News