Senior Vice President, Group Creative Director

Philadelphia, PA (On-site)

$177K/yr – $264K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive creative leadership across multiple client accounts and pitches with a proven pharma-ad agency background.

  • Must-have: 10+ years’ art-focused experience in a creative ad agency, including pharmaceutical brand work
  • Standout: Award-winning portfolio and large-scale, cross-channel delivery leadership

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Manage several creative teams across multiple clients’ accounts
  • Participate in new business development, client presentations and selling creative concepts internally and externally
  • Effectively win pitches while managing large-scale, cross-channel deliverables
  • Continually optimize results for every piece of creative the team produces
  • Ensure high quality, strategy and integrity of all creative output
  • Communicate client and brand goals to creative teams
  • Recruit, train, develop and motivate staff to maximize their potential
  • Effectively manage assigned timeframes and budgets, including staffing and hours allocation on all projects
  • Work with account services to foster client relationships
  • Participate in agency thought-leadership, including external sources and agency presentations
  • Maintain knowledge of current advertising, marketing and technological developments

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 10+ years’ art-focused experience in a creative ad agency setting including pharmaceutical brand focused roles
  • Proficiency in HCP and DTC pharmaceutical creative advertising
  • Proven ability to develop powerful and effective creative concepts
  • Award winning creative work/portfolio
  • Previous experience managing, inspiring and leading teams
  • Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills
  • Ability to thrive in a collaborative agency environment with multi-disciplinary teams
  • Ability to travel

Preferred

    Benefits

    • medical coverage
    • dental
    • vision
    • disability
    • 401k
    • paid time off
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    Digitas Health

    Digitas Health is connected, for good. The first global connected-health agency, we specialize in bringing health brands and humans closer—as they should be. Health is for all of us, after all. So where data informs, we add our instinct. Where intelligence empowers, we bring our empathy. And where creativity comes first, we remember it comes from all of us. Because for us, good is more than a metric. It’s a mindset. A mantra. A must. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago, Digitas Health is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Healthcare Communications Group. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

    Founded in 1990
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    971 employees (355 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

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    5.7K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    36.4%
    Direct
    47.6%
    Referral
    7.3%
    Social
    7.4%
    Paid
    1.1%

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    Current headcount: ~971

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    162 (17% of company)
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