Orchard

Orchard

Orchard - Strategy Director Animal/Human Health - New Jersey 3 days

New York, USA (Remote)

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Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated healthcare strategy with senior client partnerships and cross-functional workshops.

Own end-to-end strategic planning for healthcare/animal health accounts, turning complex problems into integrated solutions.
Must-have: 10+ years in strategic/planning with healthcare/pharma experience.
Lead cross-functional workshops and build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Partner with client marketing, digital and commercial teams to diagnose underlying business and marketing challenges, going beyond the brief to uncover what’s really holding a brand or business unit back.
Translate complex, sometimes competing business priorities into focused strategic questions the agency can rally around.
Develop integrated strategies that bridge brand positioning, communications planning, content ecosystems and digital experience, always anchored in a clearly defined business problem.
Design and lead workshops, working sessions and strategy sprints that bring together client stakeholders across functions, aligning teams around shared problems and co-creating solutions.
Act as a trusted partner to senior client contacts (VP and C-suite level), building long-term relationships grounded in commercial understanding and strategic credibility.
Foster collaboration across agency disciplines, brand, content, UX, data, social and CRM, ensuring strategic thinking is embedded from the outset, not bolted on after the fact.
Contribute to new business efforts by shaping strategic approaches, leading pitches and demonstrating the value of integrated, insight-led thinking.
Stay current with developments across the healthcare and animal health landscape, regulatory shifts, market dynamics, emerging technologies and evolving patient/consumer/veterinary expectations.

Requirements

10+ years’ experience working in a strategic/planning function, ideally within digital or creative agency
Healthcare or pharmaceutical advertising experience is essential, if you’ve worked in animal health, even better
A mastery of your strategic capability, and a basic understanding across other forms of strategy, including, but not limited to: Brand strategy & communications strategy, digital and CX
Track record of turning complex business problems into inspiring and effective solutions.
Ability to work independently and make things happen without a large team around you
Flexibility for some AU time-zone cross over, some local US travel
Genuine curiosity about culture, people, technology and what comes next

Preferred

Benefits

3.9 Glassdoor

Orchard is radically simplifying the way people buy and sell their homes. For the average American, the home purchase and sale process takes months, creates anxiety, and is filled with uncertainty and hassle. Orchard has reimagined the end-to-end experience of buying and selling, from innovative home search tools to find the perfect home to the ability to buy a new home before selling your current one. Orchard customers manage the entire experience through a personalized online dashboard, while also getting the support of best-in-class Orchard real estate agents. Orchard offers a modern alternative, making one of life's biggest decisions – the sale and purchase of a home – stress-free, fair, and simple. Orchard has financing from top-tier investors including Revolution, Firstmark, Accomplice, Navitas and Juxtapose, who have also backed the likes of Pinterest, AirBnb, Shopify and Sweetgreen. We're proud to be recognized by Crain's, Inc. 5000, Glassdoor, Parity.org and Built In on their lists of best places to work.Learn more and grow your business with the team that’s redefining the real estate experience.

Founded in 2017

New York, New York, USA

661 employees (10 in marketing)

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