Responsibilities

• Serve as a senior strategic partner to clients, helping them navigate complex business, brand, market, and communications challenges with confidence
• Lead the development of high-impact brand, portfolio, and communications strategies that drive clarity, alignment, and growth
• Bring a strong, evidence-based point of view to senior client conversations, agency leadership discussions, and cross-functional decision-making
• Anticipate category, customer, cultural, and competitive dynamics, ensuring they are meaningfully reflected across strategic recommendations and agency deliverables
• Guide teams through key strategic processes and projects across the full brand and communications spectrum
• Lead the synthesis of clinical data, market dynamics, customer behavior, competitive context, and cultural signals into clear, compelling strategic narratives
• Identify the tensions, opportunities, and human truths that can unlock stronger brand meaning and more powerful communications
• Help clients and internal teams see clearly in complex situations, connecting disparate inputs into focused strategic direction
• Ensure that strategy is not only smart and sound, but also inspiring, actionable, and built to move the work forward
• Oversee and shape brand positioning, messaging, creative strategy, engagement strategy, and communications planning across the brand lifecycle

Requirements

• 10+ years of strategic brand planning or brand strategy experience, ideally in an agency environment, with significant experience in pharma, biotech, life sciences, or healthcare marketing
• A proven track record of leading insight-driven, creatively inspiring, and commercially relevant strategy across complex healthcare brands
• Deep understanding of clinical data, competitive landscapes, category dynamics, HCP and patient behavior, and the broader healthcare ecosystem
• Experience leading strategic engagements, senior client presentations, workshops, brand planning initiatives, and new business efforts
• Strong ability to connect brand, creative, medical, social, CX, and engagement strategy into a cohesive approach
• Exceptional communication, presentation, facilitation, and storytelling skills across briefs, decks, workshops, and executive-level discussions
• Demonstrated success mentoring strategists, influencing cross-functional teams, and raising the quality of strategic thinking across an agency environment