Strategy Director Animal/Human Health

New York, USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level10+ years expContract

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategy leadership for a healthcare/animal health agency, translating complex business priorities into integrated brand, content, and digital experiences.

  • Must-have: 10+ years in strategic/planning roles, with healthcare or pharma ad experience.
  • Standout: Senior client relationship skills (VP/C-suite) with cross-disciplinary collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Strategy
  • 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 focusedstrategic 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.
  • Facilitation & Collaboration
  • 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.
  • Leadership & Growth
  • 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.