Vice President, Group Director, Strategy

Responsibilities

• Lead brand strategy across assigned pharmaceutical and healthcare accounts, establishing a clear strategic vision that connects business objectives, customer needs, and brand opportunities.
• Develop positioning, value propositions, messaging frameworks, creative briefs, communication strategies, and other core strategic deliverables.
• Translate complex clinical, competitive, customer, and market information into simple, actionable strategic insights.
• Serve as a senior strategic partner to clients, confidently presenting recommendations, challenging thinking, and helping guide important brand decisions.
• Partner closely with Creative, Account, Medical, Engagement Strategy, and other cross-functional teams to ensure strategy is reflected throughout the work.
• Lead strategic thinking around HCP and consumer audiences, identifying the behaviors, motivations, barriers, and unmet needs that influence brand engagement.
• Provide strategic direction for major initiatives, campaigns, new indications, and evolving brand opportunities.
• Evaluate competitive activity and broader marketplace dynamics to identify opportunities for differentiation.
• Lead and facilitate strategic workshops, working sessions, and client presentations.
• Guide the development of creative briefs and partner with Creative teams throughout concept development to ensure ideas remain strategically grounded.

Requirements

• Significant experience in brand strategy, account planning, communications strategy, or a related strategic discipline within an advertising or healthcare agency environment.
• Strong pharmaceutical or healthcare marketing experience required.
• Experience developing strategy for HCP and/or consumer healthcare audiences.
• Deep understanding of brand positioning, segmentation, customer insights, messaging, and communications planning.
• Ability to turn research, data, and complex scientific information into a compelling strategic story.
• Proven ability to develop strong creative briefs and partner effectively with Creative teams.
• Strong presentation, storytelling, and facilitation skills with the confidence to engage senior-level clients.
• Experience leading complex accounts and multiple strategic workstreams.
• Collaborative leadership style with the ability to influence across disciplines.
• Comfortable operating at both the high-level brand strategy and hands-on strategic development levels.

Preferred

• Someone who can see the bigger brand opportunity but is still willing to get into the work. They should be intellectually curious, comfortable challenging conventional thinking, and able to take complicated pharmaceutical challenges and turn them into a clear strategic direction that clients and creative teams can rally around.

Benefits

• medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.