Associate Director, Strategic Planning (Pharma Ad Exp required)

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$91K/yr – $123K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 days ago

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Job Summary

You will own cross-functional strategic planning and multichannel ecosystem development for healthcare brands, coordinating with creative and account teams to deliver annual planning, POVs, patient journeys, and growth opportunities.

  • Lead multiple concurrent projects and annual planning deliverables
  • Synthesize data to inform strategy and multichannel plans
  • Partner with client and agency teams to elevate thinking and drive growth

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Partners with creative, subject matter experts and account management peers to develop ideas and orchestrate planning and analytical activity for healthcare/pharma accounts
  • Synthesizes data and insights to drive integrated strategy development, comprehensive multichannel plans and creative ideas
  • Works with cross-functional team to develop brand strategies, digital cross-channel strategies, creative briefs, customer journeys and ecosystems
  • Establishes strong collaborative relationship within the groups and externally with key agency and client partners to consistently elevate the quality of thinking and ideas applied to the client business
  • Directs strategic key components of the client business and actively engages client
  • Leads multiple, simultaneous projects and assignments including delegating as appropriate
  • Takes lead on all annual planning deliverables
  • Identifies opportunities for improvement, organic growth and workflow efficiencies of agency
  • Starts to develop and actively participate in the development of POVs, channel/tactical plans, patient journeys and digital ecosystems
  • Actively supports new business activity where required Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.

Requirements

  • Minimum of six years of experience in planning, strategic planning and related communications experience; advertising agency experience is a huge plus
  • Proven ability to think creatively and evidence of success in developing multichannel strategies for brands and delivering them to market
  • Strong digital and analytical capabilities a must
  • Pharma/Healthcare background very nice to have
  • Storyteller and persuasive presenter
  • Deep understanding of digital channels, and knowledge of the various roles and contributions of other strategic disciplines such as CRM and social media
  • Resourceful, sees the big picture but likes to dig into the details, innately curious
  • Strong balance of creativity and analytics
  • Ability to simplify the complex

EVERSANA

3.5 Glassdoor

EVERSANA® is a leading independent provider of global services to the life sciences industry. The company’s integrated solutions are rooted in the patient experience and span all stages of the product life cycle to deliver long-term, sustainable value for patients, prescribers, channel partners and payers. The company serves more than 650 organizations, including innovative start-ups and established pharmaceutical companies, to advance life sciences solutions for a healthier world. To learn more about EVERSANA, visit eversana.com.

Founded in 2018
Chicago, Illinois, USA
4.7K employees (563 in marketing)
66% recommend to a friend
78% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
48.6K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.4%
Direct
46.8%
Referral
6.7%
Social
1.6%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
396 (8% of company)
Median Career Experience
23.5 years
Median Tenure
5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
18

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 7 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2018
    Private Equity Round

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