Responsibilities

• Serve as the ultimate client and strategic leader for one of dentsu’s largest accounts, acting as the primary liaison with, and trusted advisor to, senior-most client leadership
• Build and drive integrated solutions across dentsu capabilities (media and beyond) to maximize client impact and value and drive growth for the agency
• Champion and understand client’s business and industry inside and out, and use that understanding to reframe client challenges into strategic media direction and opportunities that create a competitive advantage
• Create and maintain a high-functioning, high-performing team that attracts top talent by demonstrating a culture of accountability, client centricity, compassion, and excellence
• Build collaborative and trusted relationships in matrixed environments with a diverse array of internal and external partners, maintaining a strong pulse on dynamics to identify risks and opportunities early and action against them
• Lead the P&L, including making sound commercial decisions without oversight, leading contract development and negotiations, and overseeing and optimizing staff plans
• Lead operational excellence across all functions, with a strategic lens on needs and solutions across people, process, and technology, including AI, to maximize operational effectiveness, internal and external collaboration, and overall ways of working
• Solve the tough problems and have the hard conversations – both internal and with clients
• Accurately represent the client’s point of view when reviewing work, leveraging this perspective and strong communication skills to foster clear, compelling, and persuasive storytelling and presentations to clients
• Manage and mentor Director to VP-level team members, including active coaching and career development

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in relevant areas such as leading large-scale, complex regional or global client relationships, strategic media planning, and/or communications strategy
• 10+ years experience working with pharmaceutical brands
• Deep knowledge and experience with multiple communication channels and their role in marketing, including both traditional and digital media channels and both national and local media
• Deep knowledge and experience using data, technology, identity, and advanced measurement solutions to deliver data-driven, high-performing integrated marketing plans
• Demonstrates mental agility to keep pace with fast speed of business – priorities change often and flexing beyond core competencies is expected
• Proven ability to think strategically, with a balanced analytical and creative approach, and the ability to teach others to think strategically and solve complex problems
• Proactive and effective storyteller and collaborator, with ability to persuade and bring together and positively influence diverse groups of team members and clients to achieve desired outcomes
• Dynamic presence in presentations and communications
• Proven ability to lead change in complex organizations and implement new operating models spanning across multiple marketing disciplines and/or markets
• Strong commercial and strategic acumen, with a track record of delivering business impact

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance,
• Life insurance,
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance,
• 401k,
• Flexible paid time off,
• At least 15 paid holidays per year,
• Paid sick and safe leave, and
• Paid parental leave.