Senior Account Director (Pharma)

USA (On-site)

$150K/yr – $170K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 5 days ago

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Job Summary

Owns and grows key client relationships, leads cross-functional teams, and drives strategic account planning to deliver business results for assigned pharmaceutical clients.

  • Owns client relationships and communications
  • Leads cross-functional teams and strategic account planning

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Owns the client relationship.
  • Builds and maintains effective client relationships, frequently at the senior level, by establishing trust and credibility at all levels in the client's organization, including senior management.
  • Establishes regular communication with clients to ensure their satisfaction and facilitate our long-term profitability and growth.
  • Effectively provides leadership and support to ensure the agency's perspective is effectively communicated and represented, fostering a collaborative environment that aligns team efforts with the organization's goals and values.
  • Driven to grow accounts, ensuring all opportunities and challenges within an assigned client are understood, solutions are identified, and pushing the team to pursue upsell opportunities.
  • Collaborates with key leaders to present effective solutions that engage clients and generate excitement for additional projects.
  • Able to author most parts of a pitch presentation with key input from SMEs.
  • Ensures the accurate management of the account financials, including managing reporting.
  • Leads and reports on monthly and quarterly forecast updates for the assigned client account(s).
  • Writes monthly account updates and keeps senior management informed of any issues with proactive ideation.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of pharmaceutical agency experience.
  • Experience working on an AOR pharmaceutical client.
  • Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, or a related field.
  • Prior agency experience with drug launch and multi-channel marketing plan execution.
  • Demonstrates ability to adapt to various client corporate cultures and work with a diverse range of personalities.
  • Management experience is required.
  • Able to empower, keep teams on track, and participate in the professional development of the team.
  • Outstanding business interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to explain sophisticated terms, clinical trials, and studies pertaining to the brand. Strong data orientation.
  • Excellent analytical and strategic-thinking abilities to carefully manage details while juggling multiple projects.

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance. We cover a generous portion of employee contributions
  • 401K plan. We invest in present and future you, which is why we offer a generous match and immediate vesting on our plan
  • Parental Leave. Generous paid time off for parents to bond with their newest addition
  • Professional Development. Each employee has an annual budget to allocate to professional development opportunities. Employees are encouraged to take a workshop, attend a webinar, join associations, and do anything else that will help them grow in their careers.
  • And more! We offer flexible time off, life insurance, LTD, a robust employee assistance program, and more!
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CG Life

CG Life is a different breed of agency, built for the unique challenges of bringing precision medicine to market. Biopharma companies advancing therapies for rare and hard-to-treat diseases face a commercialization gap. They need a partner who has been there before, fluent in complex science, deeply attuned to rare disease ecosystems, and capable of orchestrating every step of commercialization. CG Life is more than an agency—we are defining a new class of partner that understands the full journey. We’re the locals, with expertise in scientific translation and market shaping, omnichannel activation, and patient/HCP engagement, all underpinned by data, AI, and deep domain expertise in rare and complex therapies.Let’s get to extraordinary. Together. Expert capabilities in:Brand StrategyPublic RelationsSocial MediaCreativeScientific CommunicationsOmnichannel Strategy & EnablementMedia PlanningAnalytics & Insights

Founded in 2003
Chicago, Illinois, USA
203 employees (49 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$19.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.8%
Direct
51.2%
Referral
6.8%
Social
8.8%
Paid
1.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~203

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
38 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
14 years
Median Tenure
1.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
12

Funding

Last Raise
Private Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2023
    Private Equity