Strategy Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$145K/yr – $165K/yrDirector/Executive5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Lead client strategy, mentorship, and disruptive ideation across live initiatives, fueling insights and compelling brand recommendations.

  • Manage and mentor strategists to drive career growth.
  • Develop meaningful client relationships and lead research to generate disruptive ideas.
  • Contribute to new business pitches with insight-driven content.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to a culture that grows and motivates colleagues and clients to adopt Disruption and new methodologies uncovered as central to brand efforts
  • Manage and mentor junior strategists to foster engagement through learning and development that leads to career growth
  • Develop meaningful and productive client relationships to ensure strategic recommendations exceed expectations
  • Help create and facilitate agency and client ideation sessions. Must be able to employ Disruption and other facilitation session tools
  • Be a methodological and analytical leader in driving client and agency research through new ways of gaining insight into our brands
  • Contribute to and lead various aspects of Disruption Live by finding trending topics and monitoring macro-trends in culture
  • Work with account and creative managers to create brand positioning, Disruption roadmaps, and creative briefs
  • Facilitate efforts at generating insights from a variety of data sources to ensure development of Disruptive creative and brand ideas
  • Contribute to new business pitches by managing customer insight generation, which is tied to pitch product clinical data
  • Interview target prospects to generate pitch content and story flow from findings

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ prior work experience, preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired; oncology experience a plus)
  • General computer proficiency, including fluency in PowerPoint; Experience using generative AI tools in strategy workstreams, a plus.
  • Prior internal team and brand strategy experience, including creative brief development, and delivery, and ongoing support of creative ideation.
  • A foundational skill set defined by
  • Research/data focus
  • Independence
  • Patience, confidence, and leadership
  • Creativity and strategic agility
  • Oratory talent, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to command a room
  • Sound judgment and discretion for conflict resolution.

Omnicom Health

The next big thing in health starts here—where bold ideas, deep expertise, and powerful partnerships converge.At Omnicom Health, we’re the world’s largest, most multi-specialty healthcare communications network—uniting leading agencies across every stage of the healthcare journey, from discovery to access, awareness to action. Each brings distinct strengths. But when we work together, we unlock transformative technology, data-driven insights, and smarter, faster ways to drive better outcomes for all.We don’t just respond to change—we drive it. With a shared purpose and unmatched capabilities, we’re shaping a healthier, more connected world. Let’s build what’s next—together.

Founded in 2016
New York, New York, USA
3.7K employees (1,047 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
10.6K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.7%
Direct
44.9%
Referral
6.7%
Social
9.4%
Paid
1.2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~3.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
725 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
7.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3