Freelance Account Director (Pharma)

USA (Remote)

$85/hr – $100/hrSenior Level10+ years expContract

Posted 8 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Owns and grows key client relationships, leads account strategy and delivery, and drives upsell opportunities across multidisciplinary teams.

  • Bases decisions on trust and strategic partnership with senior clients and cross-functional alignment
  • Guides planning, forecasting, and budget management for assigned accounts
  • Drives growth by identifying challenges and presenting strategic solutions

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Builds and maintains strong business relationships by establishing trust and credibility at all levels in the client's organization, including senior management.
  • Establishes regular communication with clients to ensure their satisfaction and facilitate our long-term profitability and growth.
  • Persuades clients as a strategic partner with a perspective they can trust.
  • Guides client planning and forward-thinking via established industry knowledge to support the agency's recommendations.
  • Drives the growth of client accounts by identifying challenges and pursuing upsell opportunities.
  • Collaborates with key leaders to present effective solutions that engage clients and generate excitement for additional projects.
  • Supports new business efforts by actively participating in strategy sessions, attending pitches, and delivering presentations when appropriate.
  • Ensures the accurate management of the account financials, including managing reporting.
  • Leads and reports on monthly and quarterly forecast updates for the assigned client account(s).
  • Displays personal ownership and responsibility for the client account by handling all elements from the briefing to the scope execution.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of pharmaceutical agency experience.
  • Experience working on a DAOR pharmaceutical brand.
  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field.
  • Strong leadership and team management skills.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Client-facing presence and interaction with C-Suite level must be demonstrated.
  • Flexible and agile, with the ability to quickly change course when the need arises.
  • Strong analytical and strategic-thinking abilities to carefully manage details while juggling multiple projects.
  • Ability to put together professional-looking documents and presentations.
  • Strong presentation/public speaking skills.

Benefits

  • CG Life offers a variety of benefits, including health benefits, 401K retirement with a generous company match and immediate vesting, and flexible time off.
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CG Life

CG Life is a different breed of agency, built for the unique challenges of bringing precision medicine to market. Biopharma companies advancing therapies for rare and hard-to-treat diseases face a commercialization gap. They need a partner who has been there before, fluent in complex science, deeply attuned to rare disease ecosystems, and capable of orchestrating every step of commercialization. CG Life is more than an agency—we are defining a new class of partner that understands the full journey. We’re the locals, with expertise in scientific translation and market shaping, omnichannel activation, and patient/HCP engagement, all underpinned by data, AI, and deep domain expertise in rare and complex therapies.Let’s get to extraordinary. Together. Expert capabilities in:Brand StrategyPublic RelationsSocial MediaCreativeScientific CommunicationsOmnichannel Strategy & EnablementMedia PlanningAnalytics & Insights

Founded in 2003
Chicago, Illinois, USA
203 employees (49 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$19.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.8%
Direct
51.2%
Referral
6.8%
Social
8.8%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~203

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
38 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
16 years
Median Tenure
1.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
18

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2023
    Private Equity