Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic lead across assigned brand teams, guiding the development of brand strategy, positioning, messaging, creative briefs, and strategic recommendations.
• Develop a deep understanding of assigned brands, categories, customer needs, competitive dynamics, and cultural context.
• Translate clinical complexity, market dynamics, and audience insight into clear, compelling brand stories.
• Help teams uncover the “contagious” strategic idea that can inspire creative development and drive meaningful behavior change.
• Ensure strategic thinking is embedded early and consistently across brand, creative, engagement, medical, account, and analytics workstreams.
• Bring a strong point of view to brand challenges while remaining collaborative, flexible, and open to building better ideas with others.
• Serve as a primary strategic partner for assigned clients, building trusted relationships through clarity, confidence, and strategic leadership.
• Partner closely with Account, Creative, Medical Strategy, Engagement Strategy, Strategic Intelligence, and Analytics teams to deliver integrated strategic solutions.
• Facilitate client conversations, strategic workshops, and internal working sessions that help align teams around brand opportunities, audience needs, and creative direction.
• Help clients navigate complexity by turning research, data, science, and competitive context into actionable strategic direction.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in brand strategy, strategic planning, account planning, healthcare marketing, research, consulting, or a related strategic discipline.
• Significant experience in healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, wellness, or other regulated categories.
• Strong ability to translate science, data, research, and audience understanding into clear strategic direction.
• Experience developing brand positioning, messaging strategy, creative briefs, strategic workshops, research synthesis, and client presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead brand teams, partner with clients, and influence cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of HCP, patient, caregiver, and stakeholder audiences.
• Ability to identify meaningful insights from primary research, secondary research, competitive analysis, cultural trends, and marketplace dynamics.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and tell a compelling strategic story.
• Strong facilitation and presentation skills, including comfort leading workshops and presenting to clients.
• Experience mentoring junior talent and helping elevate the strategic work of others.

Benefits

• Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed. We’ll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We’ll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we’ll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates.
• The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.