Responsibilities

• Lead media strategy and integrated planning across a portfolio of healthcare clients, ensuring plans align with business objectives and audience needs.
• Serve as the senior strategic lead for media planning engagements, guiding annual planning, launch strategies, investment allocation, and measurement frameworks.
• Translate complex market dynamics, audience insights, competitive intelligence, and performance data into actionable strategic recommendations.
• Drive audience-first omnichannel planning approaches that connect HCP, patient, caregiver, and consumer engagement opportunities.
• Champion innovation and identify emerging media opportunities, technologies, and measurement solutions that create competitive advantage for clients. Manage and mentor junior team members, providing oversight, feedback, and workload direction
• Navigate complex stakeholder environments with professionalism, sound judgment, and strong collaboration skills
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, leading strategic discussions and influencing media investment decisions.
• Present recommendations, performance insights, and future planning opportunities to executive-level client audiences.
• Build long-term client relationships through strategic consultation, proactive problem solving, and consistent delivery excellence.
• Partner with account leadership to identify growth opportunities across existing client relationships.

Requirements

• 10+ years of media strategy, planning, and investment experience, with significant healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, or highly regulated industry experience preferred.
• 5+ years of progressive leadership experience managing teams and developing talent.
• Deep expertise in omnichannel media strategy, audience planning, and integrated communications planning.
• Strong understanding of healthcare media ecosystems across HCP, patient, caregiver, and consumer audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and lead complex, multi-channel media strategies tied to measurable business outcomes.
• Experience building measurement frameworks and translating performance insights into strategic recommendations.
• Proven success in influencing senior stakeholders and presenting to executive-level clients.
• Strong understanding of audience segmentation, media research, attribution, marketing effectiveness, and emerging media technologies.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, influence cross-functional teams, and drive alignment within complex matrixed organizations.
• Experience contributing to agency growth initiatives, thought leadership, and new business efforts preferred.

Preferred

• A strategic thinker with a strong data-driven mindset
• A proactive and solutions-oriented client leader
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• A collaborative team player who leads with accountability and clarity
• Adaptable and energized by change
• Motivated by Real Chemistry’s values: Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always, and Accountability with an “I”

Benefits

• Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vison plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning. Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at: www.realchemistrybenefits.com .
• At Real Chemistry, we’ve put together a benefits program designed to give you the support you and your family need at every stage of life.