Account Director (Health)

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their business goals, needs, and challenges.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients, providing strategic guidance and expert advice on advertising and marketing initiatives.
• Develop a deep understanding of clients' industries, competitors, and target audience to provide effective and relevant solutions.
• Help clients weigh options, evaluate trade-offs and make decisions
• Own workstreams, report to the VP or SVP to build a project path from the ground up, and work closely with your agency partners, including Creative, Strategy/Planning, Project Management, Talent, and Finance.
• Manage strategic creative development, production, and post-production of advertising communications, including but not limited to film (broadcast and online), print, and social.
• Develop accurate budgets and timelines and manage budget in partnership with Project Management and Finance, support Senior Account Leadership by continuously reviewing financial performance at the top and bottom line, and successfully forecast against a project pipeline and guide investment decisions toward healthy agency profitability. Closely manage and track the agency SOW with clients and identify opportunities for incremental scope.
• Oversee content shoots (including attending pre-production meetings and shoots), supervise post-production processing (including process review, rough cuts, etc), and work on digital and social initiatives (website builds, upkeep, social media, landing pages, and microsites). Deep understanding of the production process across channels (digital, static, social, etc).
• Manage integrated relationships among partner companies
• Build strong business cases in support of Grey’s ideas and solutions

Requirements

• Passionate interest in the client’s business while you always look for ways to get upstream within the organization.
• High creative output standards, expecting the full team to be passionate, focused, and committed to making Famously Effective work for our clients
• 6 + years in a related environment (marketing, agency, product, etc ).
• Experience in full 360 integrated work, including but not limited to TV, content, digital, social, and OOH.
• Experience in developing and leading work in omni-channel format.
• Experience in partnering with clients and strategy team in shaping, leading the prep for, and implementing insights from market-research projects.
• Experience in building strong client relationships that result in excellent work and drive organic growth.
• Experience in effective account housekeeping (timelines and budget development and management).
• Proven track record of supervising and developing junior Account talent.

Preferred

• Oncology launch experience preferred