Vice President, Group Account Director

New York, USA (On-site)

$61K/yr – $94K/yrSenior Level10+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic account leadership for healthcare brands, including budgets, client advisory, and cross-functional delivery.

  • Own strategic plans, budgets, and timelines for client programs.
  • Must-have: 10+ years in healthcare communications.
  • Standout: Proven leadership across teams and client advisory.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Drives the process and details, and develops tactical plans. Forecasts budgets.
  • Finances: Develops and administers clients’ budgets based on accurate estimating and tracking of hours, out-of-pocket expenses, and reconciliation against estimates.
  • Raises client awareness as to when changes in client direction affect estimates.
  • Sound decision making regarding hours dedicated to jobs, what to prioritize.
  • Contributes to the revenue and forecasts of the brand.
  • Trouble shoot: Solution oriented. Knows when things might get off track in agency operations.
  • Uses experience and judgment to proactively solve for potential problems before they get too big.
  • Ability to solve client issues, independently moderate conflicts and influence management decisions
  • Leadership: Takes on wider, informal leadership responsibilities within the agency. Exhibits strong leadership internally and externally. Exhibits solid judgment.
  • Management: team leader, provides clear and fair direction & feedback to junior account staff
  • Demonstrates and applies extensive and expert knowledge of assigned brands, including relevant clinical data behind promotional messages
  • Successfully serves as point of authority and/or source of advice for therapeutic area. Proactively identifies opportunities based on the market.
  • Ensures team adherence to agency process. Identifies issues and leads problem resolution
  • Develops communication objectives & strategies (e.g. marketing/ brand platform briefs). Has the ability to see the big picture and identify the key/broad issues while still driving the process and details.
  • Is able to address strategic marketing issues and propose viable solutions.
  • Demonstrates and communicates a clear expert POV as marketing partner to clients
  • High-level analysis of category, research, and competitive data. Analyzes and extracts findings/issues from all available marketing data. Active in strategic development
  • Demonstrates passion for the brand
  • Develops marketing/ brand platform briefs). Owns the agency process. Shows resourcefulness and thoroughness in developing tactical plans, including budgets and timelines.
  • Production: Supervises and effectively manages the production of client-approved marketing tools
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Heartbeat

4.2 Glassdoor

Heartbeat is a full-service marketing agency for healthcare Challenger Brands. Challengers are playing a high-stakes game — they must battle behemoth competitors, upend ingrained audience habits, or transform a “me-too” product into “yes-please.” It is our lifeblood to change the fate for these brands. By questioning common wisdom and challenging category convention, we find novel ways to engage audiences, change behaviors, and shift marketing landscapes. That’s the mission, here are the creds: over 250 employees between NYC & LA; longtime agency leaders; a pile of awards from the likes of Clio Health, MM+M, and Med Ad News; the most diverse agency community in healthcare; and a culture that has been celebrated as a Best Place to Work by Ad Age and MM+M for eight years. Damn straight. For more information about Heartbeat, drop us a line at marketing@weareheartbeat.com.

Founded in 1998
New York, New York, USA
316 employees (134 in marketing)
91% recommend to a friend
98% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
2.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.8%
Direct
46.5%
Referral
5.8%
Social
17.4%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~317

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
79 (25% of company)
Median Career Experience
10.5 years
Median Tenure
8.7 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
8