VP, Strategy Director

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

$175K/yr – $205K/yrSenior Level11+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own the strategic standard across brands, science, and audience insight while leading multi-brand pharma strategy, senior client advisory, and enterprise planning efforts.

  • Lead strategy across pharma brands, therapy areas, and accounts
  • Align brand, medical, and creative disciplines into a unified point of view
  • Mentor senior strategists and shape growth across portfolios

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • You set the strategic standard for everything we do. You define how brands, science, and audience insight come together across the organization—and you make sure that thinking shows up in the work. You operate at the highest level of client and agency partnership, shaping not just brand direction, but how strategy itself is built, sold, and delivered. You bring clarity to complexity and direction to ambiguity.
  • Lead strategy across multiple pharmaceutical brands, therapy areas, and accounts
  • Set and evolve strategic direction across brand, medical, and creative disciplines
  • Partner at the highest level with clients as a trusted strategic advisor
  • Oversee and guide Brand Strategy Directors and Medical Strategy leadership
  • Define integrated brand and communication frameworks across portfolios
  • Ensure consistency, rigor, and commercial impact across all strategic output
  • Lead key brand and enterprise-level planning engagements
  • Identify growth opportunities across accounts and new business
  • Champion the role of strategy in shaping creative excellence and business outcomes

Requirements

  • 11 + years of experience in brand strategy within pharma advertising or healthcare marketing
  • Proven leadership across multiple brands, teams, and complex client portfolios
  • Deep understanding of pharmaceutical markets, audiences, and regulatory environments
  • Strong track record of shaping high-level brand and business strategy
  • Executive-level client presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
  • Experience leading and developing senior strategy talent
  • Ability to connect science, brand, and commercial strategy into a unified point of view
  • Strong cross-functional leadership across creative, medical, and account disciplines
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Fifth Element

We’re a full-service healthcare agency built for the future. Our expertise spans audiences and markets—US and global, advertising, medical education, and everything in between. Founded at a time where our industry finds itself caught between two powerful forces. Rapid advancements in AI and the enduring value of human creativity. It’s in this middle space that the most meaningful breakthroughs will emerge, and it's why we exist. To navigate the tension, harness the friction, and turn it into something transformative. That’s where we do our best work. In the unseen. The in-between. The Fifth Element.

New York, New York, USA
76 employees (26 in marketing)

Salaries

Posted range

$175K/yr – $205K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
18 (24% of company)
Median Tenure
1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
5

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
1K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
74.4%
Direct
10.1%
Referral
5.2%
Social
9%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~78
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VP, Strategy Director

Fifth Element · New York City, NY · Hybrid