Associate Director, Growth

New York City, NY (On-site)

$97K/yr – $156K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the growth narrative and strategic direction for high stakes pitches, shaping a portfolio of opportunities from intake to delivery while balancing speed and rigor across multiple initiatives.

  • Growth Strategy: Lead evaluation of new business opportunities and align strategy with agency capabilities.
  • Narrative Leadership: Shape pitches, positioning, and engagement approaches to differentiate and win.
  • Cross-Agency Influence: Partner with account, strategy, creative, media, data, and medical teams to drive integrated outcomes.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead evaluation of new business and organic growth opportunities, including go/no‑go decisions, resourcing, and pursuit strategy
  • Oversee multiple concurrent opportunities, balancing speed, rigor, and quality under pressure
  • Partner with senior leadership to align opportunity strategy with agency priorities and capabilities
  • Guide the strategic direction of pitches and growth initiatives from intake through delivery
  • Shape the overall narrative, positioning, and engagement approach—ensuring clarity, relevance, and differentiation
  • Pressure test thinking, story flow, and strategic logic to elevate the quality of wor‑k
  • Work closely with account, strategy, creative, media, data, and medical teams to drive integrated, high impact‑ outcomes
  • Serve as a confident, trusted voice in senior internal and external conversations
  • Reinforce core growth and new business processes, ensuring teams understand expectations, timelines, and deliverables
  • Contribute to organic growth efforts across existing client relationships
  • Support Brand Health and broader growth structures that strengthen how the agency pursues and wins business over time
  • Bring calm, steady leadership to complex, high stakes‑ moments
  • Influence without ego—commanding yet collaborative in style
  • Help set the standard for strategic excellence and Growth culture across the agency

Requirements

  • Significant experience leading growth, new business, or strategic pursuits within an advertising agency, healthcare agency, or integrated marketing environment
  • Proven ability to shape pitch strategy, narrative, and positioning at a senior level
  • Strong understanding of integrated agency capabilities and how they come together to solve client business challenges
  • Confident presence in senior ‑level discussions; trusted judgment under pressure
  • Highly strategic problem solver with a collaborative, practical approach
  • Experience navigating ambiguity and complexity while driving clear outcomes

    Benefits

    • robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent
    • medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.
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    Digitas Health

    Digitas Health is connected, for good. The first global connected-health agency, we specialize in bringing health brands and humans closer—as they should be. Health is for all of us, after all. So where data informs, we add our instinct. Where intelligence empowers, we bring our empathy. And where creativity comes first, we remember it comes from all of us. Because for us, good is more than a metric. It’s a mindset. A mantra. A must. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago, Digitas Health is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Healthcare Communications Group. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

    Founded in 1990
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
    971 employees (355 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

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    5.7K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    36.4%
    Direct
    47.6%
    Referral
    7.3%
    Social
    7.4%
    Paid
    1.1%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~971

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    162 (17% of company)
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