Account Director (pharma) at Targetbase | Raleigh, NC

Targetbase

Account Director (pharma)

Raleigh, NC (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

The role centers on deeply understanding client businesses, building trusted partnerships, and ensuring high-quality, on-budget delivery across Targetbase competencies. It requires 10+ years in a client-facing leadership role with pharma experience and mentoring capability. Focus areas include cross-functional collaboration, revenue tracking, and pursuing incremental growth opportunities.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Maintains and nurtures a thorough understanding of clients’ businesses, brands, customers, and competitive environments in order and ensure Targetbase recommendations/solutions/products align with client business needs, overarching goals and Targetbase delivery standards
Serves as a trusted business partner for the client and competency leads; provides the client with sound business counsel on RM-related topics
Is visible, involved, available, and cooperative with both internal and external client teams
Takes ownership of the scope brief; handles all elements related to the briefing process to ensure flawless execution
Improves the quality and effectiveness of products
Plays an active role in the implementation of activities on client accounts that are facilitated by the client lead
Attends and participates in client briefs, client presentations, and attends client research as needed
Keeps manager informed of key decisions and progress on their account(s)
Develops strong relationships with mid-level clients and is viewed as an indispensable member to overall team
Builds mid-level and senior relationships with each of the Targetbase competencies (SBA, Strategy, Technology, and Creative) that assist in the completion of client projects

Requirements

Minimum of 10+ years of experience in a client-facing leadership role responsible for building strong, long-term client relationships
Pharma/Life Sciences experience required
Exposure to Oncology, Immunology, Rheumatology and/or Infectious Disease therapeutic areas preferred
Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Business, Communications, Marketing/Advertising preferred
Track record of applying strong strategic knowledge of customer journey and DTC marketing
5+ years as a people manager with both interest and ability to mentor individuals and cultivate teams

Preferred

Strong fluency in pharmaceutical sector and competitive landscape
Experience quickly developing thorough understanding of clients’ businesses, brands, customers, and competitive environments
Proficient with MS Office
Desire to mentor others and bring cross-functional partners together in support of business objectives

Targetbase

Targetbase is a precision marketing agency obsessed with performance—our clients’ and our own. For more than 4 decades, we’ve been using data-driven intelligence to maximize the potential of every client to grow and succeed. We win with the artful activation of this intelligence, which draws insight from data analytics, embraces a bold approach to creative storytelling, and lights up personalized, relevant experiences at scale across CRM, digital, and media channels. We partner with world-renowned brands, providing marketing technology, business intelligence, analytics, and creative services that lead to solutions which differentiate these brands from the competition. At Targetbase, “good enough” just isn’t good enough, so if you’re not willing to settle—whether you’re a potential partner or a future team member—you’ve come to the right place.Targetbase is a proud part of DAS Group of companies, a division of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) that is a global group of marketing services companies.

Founded in 1979

Irving, Texas, USA

323 employees (51 in marketing)

www.targetbase.com