Associate Director Media - LVL

USA (Remote)

$151K/yr – $204K/yrSenior Level

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive pharma media strategy and activation across multiple channels with cross‑functional partners, ensuring compliant, measurable execution for a large healthcare brand.

  • Own day‑to‑day media activation and quality control across campaigns.
  • Must-have: extensive paid media planning, buying, and measurement experience.
  • Standout: cross‑functional leadership with agency and partner collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the execution of media strategy across Digital, Addressable, Video, TV, Search, and Point of Care channels for both HCP and DTC audiences, ensuring alignment to brand and enterprise objectives.
  • Serve as a media subject‑matter expert at the brand or portfolio level, advising stakeholders on channel roles, audience strategy, investment mix, and optimization across the customer journey.
  • Manage day‑to‑day media activation and operations, including trafficking, tagging, tracking, and quality control, ensuring accurate and timely execution across all assigned campaigns.
  • Apply and reinforce enterprise media platform and operational standards (e.g., DCM, Prisma, MediaTools, Guidelines), ensuring consistency, compliance, and data integrity in execution.
  • Partner closely with Analytics and Technology teams to implement measurement frameworks, tagging standards, and tracking methodologies that enable performance reporting and optimization.
  • Manage brand‑level agency relationships, setting clear expectations for execution quality, measurement rigor, and operational discipline across planning, buying, and reporting.
  • Support coordination with media platform partners, staying informed on platform capabilities, policy updates, and compliance considerations relevant to pharmaceutical marketing.
  • Enable effective cross‑functional collaboration with Brand, Medical, Corporate Communications, Legal, Technology, and Analytics teams to ensure seamless, compliant execution.
  • Identify and support test‑and‑learn initiatives, including piloting new channels, platforms, data solutions, or activation models.
  • Evaluate pilot results and performance insights, providing recommendations to inform enterprise‑level scaling decisions.

Requirements

  • Doctorate degree and 3 years of media and/or marketing experience OR
  • Master’s degree and 5 years of media and/or marketing experience OR
  • Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of media and/or marketing experience OR
  • Associate’s degree and 12 years of media and/or marketing experience OR
  • High school diploma / GED and 14 years of media and/or marketing experience

Nice To Have

  • 7+ years of experience in paid media/marketing with a focus on planning, buying, execution and measurement
  • Technical competencies: expert in media targeting and segmentation (consumer and HCP), multi-channel media plan development, omnichannel orchestration and journey planning and execution, media measurement and optimization, agency leadership
  • Experienced leader of teams, both internal and external
  • Expertise in media planning and deliveries for traditional/linear/TV as well as digital channels and platforms
  • Strong analytical skills with an ability to uncover insights from performance/measurement tracking to drive action that increases brand impact.
  • Strong ability in both leading cross-functional teams, and in being a member of a cross-functional team
  • Skilled communication effectiveness: the ability to effectively engage, connect, and influence senior leadership and marketing organizations
  • Ability to translate and communicate complex information/strategies into simple and impactful carry out of plans
  • Desire and ability to find opportunities to work smarter and more efficiently, and implement with excellence
  • Ability to excel and navigate a fast-paced environment requiring excellent multi-tasking and instinctual decision-making skills
  • Comfortable with inspiring change and navigating internal and external impact accordingly
  • Preferred experience working within media agencies

Benefits

  • A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
  • A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
  • Stock-based long-term incentives
  • Award-winning time-off plans
  • Flexible work models where possible. Refer to the Work Location Type in the job posting to see if this applies.

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