VP, Account Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$117K/yr – $192K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own senior client relationships and act as brand steward while guiding multichannel experiences and team delivery.

  • Lead cross-functional teams across channels and keep timelines, budgets, and workflows ahead of schedule.
  • Grow the business through pitches, new business, and leveraging agency COEs for client impact.
  • Develop what matters most for client work by fostering collaboration, talent development, and a clear, diplomatically driven approach.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Begins to own senior client level relationships, acting as a key decision-maker and brand steward at the agency
  • Lead the team as an expert on multichannel experiences
  • Leverage your experience and agency knowledge to keep the team several steps ahead of timeline, budget, and workflow.
  • Guides team to avoid pitfalls that have been issues in the past
  • Work with management to appropriately staff brands and ensure equitable division of work among staff.
  • Fosters collaborative environment across teams.
  • Be a manager and coach who recognizes and develops talent
  • Navigate complex situations with tact, diplomacy, and a solution-oriented focus
  • Grow business through pitches, new business, and organic growth
  • Identifies opportunities where agency COEs (Centers of Excellence) can be leveraged for their clients

Requirements

  • Superior verbal and written communication skills
  • Superior organizational skills
  • Able to take the leads across a multi-disciplinary team
  • Excellent presentation skills with an ability to present ideas to brand teams and clients
  • Specific leadership level knowledge of all common agency projects and initiatives
  • Able to travel to client meetings
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office
  • Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 10 years of medical marketing and/or agency experience
  • Previous experience managing a high performing team(s)
  • A specialist in Patient Pharmaceutical advertising