VP, Account Director, Growth

Responsibilities

• Nurture senior relationships and lead the growth strategy for approximately three assigned clients, with specific assignments confirmed based on business need and potential conflicts.
• Identify, shape, and convert opportunities that expand services and revenue.
• Maintain thoughtful, consistent client engagement by understanding the business, therapeutic context, patient needs, and day-to-day team dynamics.
• Anticipate client needs and bring forward relevant ideas, capabilities, and points of view.
• Write and build capabilities presentations, strategic narratives, proposals, business plans, and other client-ready materials that connect complex needs to a compelling story.
• Lead or support priority pitches based on agency need and capacity, flexing from independent pitch lead to second chair or hands-on contributor across strategy, writing, scheduling, casting, presentation, and follow-up.
• Translate industry, market, client, and patient challenges into differentiated Publicis Health solutions that help secure roster access and convert opportunities into revenue.
• Develop at least one future-forward, measurable business plan for a product, department, agency, or Center of Excellence that positions Publicis Health for emerging market growth.
• Build the organizational knowledge and internal relationships needed to navigate Publicis Health effectively, including regular in-person connection in New York.
• Partner closely with business development, strategic operations, medical, account, capability, and agency growth leaders to usher opportunities from identification through pitch and transition.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience within a pharmaceutical or healthcare agency environment; deep fluency in healthcare is required.
• Seasoned account leadership experience managing healthcare business and nurturing senior client relationships; experience may come from a network or boutique healthcare agency.
• Meaningful ownership across at least three new-business pitches, with clear examples of personally shaping strategy, narrative, content, presentation, or delivery.
• Proven success expanding existing client relationships and generating incremental revenue.
• Exceptional writing, storytelling, creative thinking, executive presence, and presentation skills; candidates should be prepared to share relevant writing, deck, thought-leadership, or business-plan samples.
• Experience in oncology, obesity, rare disease, or CNS is preferred.
• Proficiency with AI tools and the judgment to use them effectively in day-to-day work.
• Ability to navigate a complex agency network and mobilize cross-functional experts.
• Exceptional self-management, prioritization, and delivery skills in a fast-changing environment.
• Confident and ambitious, yet humble, collaborative, commercially minded, people-positive, and comfortable doing hands-on work in a fast-moving environment.

Benefits

• medical coverage
• dental
• vision
• disability
• 401K
• parential and family care leave
• family forming assistance
• tuition reimbursement
• flexible time off