Responsibilities

• Lead our most important pursuits
• - Partner with the Head of Growth and agency leadership to determine the strategy for winning our highest-priority opportunities
• - Synthesize briefs, client intelligence, competitive context, and agency strengths to identify the core opportunity, barriers to winning, and areas requiring greater focus
• - Lead senior pitch teams through the critical early decisions: what we believe, what we will solve, how we will differentiate, what we will prove, and how we will show up
• - Establish clear strategic direction while enabling strategy, creative, and other disciplines to develop their strongest thinking
• - Maintain a view across the entire pursuit, ensuring the work adds up to the story and experience we set out to create
• - Serve as a senior sounding board and problem solver, addressing gaps, disagreements, and weaknesses before they become pitch-day problems
• Build the story that sells the work
• - Architect pitch narratives that turn complex strategies, capabilities, and ideas into clear, persuasive stories
• - Identify the ideas a client should remember and ensure every section of the presentation reinforces them

Requirements

• 8+ years of agency experience, with significant experience in new business, growth, strategy, account leadership, or a closely related discipline within healthcare marketing
• A strong track record of leading complex, high-stakes pitches and RFPs, ideally for large Creative AOR, integrated, or multi-agency opportunities
• Deep understanding of how great agency work gets made, from insight and brand strategy through creative, media, experience, data, and execution
• Exceptional strategic storytelling skills. You can find the throughline, build the argument, sequence the story, and make complicated thinking feel simple
• The ability to quickly understand a client’s business, category, competitive dynamics, and organizational needs
• Excellent judgment about what matters and what doesn’t, including where teams should focus, where the work needs to go deeper, and what is distracting from the story
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create, edit, and elevate executive-level presentations
• The presence and confidence to challenge, advise, and align senior agency leaders while building strong, trusting relationships
• Strong creative instincts and a high bar for the strategy, content, and overall pitch experience
• Experience motivating cross-functional teams through intense, fast-moving processes

Benefits

• Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.