Group Director, Strategic Planning (Pharma Ad Agency Experience Required)

New York City, NY (Remote)

$143K/yr – $192K/yrDirector/Executive10+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own multi‑account planning with a focus on strategic goals and evolving marketing landscapes, while guiding data‑driven, insight led strategies.

  • Strategic ownership: manage multiple accounts and align plans with goals and market realities.
  • Client leadership: serve as the primary strategic voice in meetings and ensure high quality deliverables.
  • Team & thought leadership: mentor the Planning team, publish POVs, and push for innovative approaches.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own multi‑account planning with responsibility for each account's strategic goals and marketing landscape.
  • Serve as the main client‑facing Planner and strategic voice in meetings, ensuring deliverables meet quality standards.
  • Drive data and insight driven strategies and set the standard for work and outcomes.
  • Provide innovative thought leadership and grow the Planning team's expertise and knowledge base.
  • Push for new strategic approaches, thinking outside the box when teams are stuck.
  • Write and publish POVs on new solutions and advances relative to existing platforms.
  • Apply strong analytical skills at every stage of problem solving and know when to surface deeper research.
  • Foster diversity, equity, and inclusion through inclusive behavior and bias management.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of Account Planning experience.
  • Extensive experience within the Pharmaceutical or Healthcare industry required.
  • Subject matter expert for digital, media and technology marketing and advertising.

    Benefits

    • More information about EVERSANA’s benefits package can be found at eversana.com/careers.
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    EVERSANA INTOUCH

    As part of EVERSANA, we’re the first – and only – agency to be backed up by a fully integrated commercial services platform, giving us an unmatched understanding of the brand journey, a front seat to patients’ experiences across the continuum of care, and greater expertise on how to move levers for business impact. It’s why we’re able to think bigger and broader about brand success. To truly appreciate everything from what advocacy groups are talking about to how prescriptions are priced and delivered to what really happens in the field. We offer insights that others can’t. And we do it all while keeping an eye on the future, helping you envision what’s next.

    Founded in 2021
    Overland Park, Kansas, US
    1.2K employees (403 in marketing)

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    6.9K
    Monthly Google Ads Budget
    $7
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    35.4%
    Direct
    48.4%
    Referral
    7.9%
    Social
    6.7%
    Paid
    1.4%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~1.2K

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    273 (22% of company)
    Median Career Experience
    7 years
    Median Tenure
    4.2 years
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