Title: Associate Director, Innovation & Growth Strategy
Location: New York, NY
Department/Discipline: Strategy
Associate Director, Innovation & Growth Strategy - Healthcare/Pharma Advertising
Help define and expand the future of our Innovation and Growth strategy team! As an Associate Director, you will be an integral strategic leader defining and guiding healthcare partners (Pharma & MedTech) on new innovative business initiatives and technologies to adopt and execute upon to drive performance. You will also be responsible for continually updating and optimizing our internal innovation resource library to ensure all Propeller teams have the necessary tools and training to be able to turn innovation into action.
Your contribution would include:
- Leadership: Support operationalizing innovative excellence to ensure healthcare clients and internal teams are educated and motivated to do breakthrough digital
- Strategy: Leverage a deep understanding of brand marketing to sell in new client initiatives and experiences that apply data, innovation, cultural intelligence across business planning and ongoing active (versus passive) client opportunities
- Creativity and Innovation: Think big and creative across a wide range of strategic opportunities to support varying stages of a brand’s lifecycle; guide and support innovative activations to impact and influence healthcare strategies
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Support ad hoc client innovation needs in closer partnership with brand experience strategist
- Presentation: Develop and lead (in partnership with experience strategy and account) impactful client workshops to bring innovation to life in a meaningful, immersive way
- Resource Development: Continue to update and evolve Innovation hub resources on Pulse to ensure internal team has the necessary tools to turn innovation into action; support the development of external facing Innovation hub to showcase agency's new innovation offering
- OHG Liaison: Partner with OHG Digital Fusion team to cross-share innovation best practices and learnings to better provide recommendations that are backed in experience and data
- Trend-watching: Keep a pulse on market trends to optimize and support progressiveness for clients and employees
To be successful in this role, you will need:
- 5+ years of experience in brand or digital strategy for an in-house agency
- Significant background in healthcare, focus in pharmaceutical
- Preferably local to the NY or NJ area to be able to come into the Summit, NJ office as needed on a monthly basis
- People management experience
- An engaging leadership presence that comes across equally strong in person, over the phone and through writing
- Deeply familiar with omnichannel brand strategy and its executions, including data, media/social, field and experiential activations
- Strong business judgment, decision making, and analytical skills
- A passion for innovative thinking, technologies and always looking to the next big thing
- Content marketing expertise to bring stories to life in decks in order to sell in new innovative thinking and technologies
- A self-starter who is collaborative and works well in an agile, entrepreneurial environment
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills with the ability to work across multiple priority initiatives at once
- Hybrid to office located in NJ, NY, Connecticut or Philadelphia
- Bachelor’s degree required
The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
- $135,000 - $154,000
Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.
Job Title: Senior Director
Location: Remote
Reports to: Vice President
Department: Patient Services
PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION:
Archbow Consulting is seeking an individual with significant, real-world operations and management experience in delivering Patient Support Programs (HUBs) for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers. This experience includes designing solutions, building, and implementing programs, and assessing programs to optimize performance. The Senior Director will be responsible for interfacing with clients to manage projects, provide subject matter expertise, offer program support to stakeholders and Archbow leadership, and create deliverables for our clients. This role requires an individual who can move fluidly between the needs of several accounts using the following skills and tactics to bring value to their client base. The Senior Director will support Archbow Project Leads on concurrent projects.
MAJOR DUTIES OF POSITION:
- Manage the day-to-day relationship with assigned multiple pharmaceutical customers, including project management activities, identification of organic growth and new sales opportunities, and provision of ongoing communications and readout deliverables with key stakeholders.
- Provide subject matter expertise related to past industry experience during projects as appropriate. This could transpire in a variety of ways, including operations, contracting, program optimization, SOP creation, RFP recommendations, etc.
- Perform research and analysis as needed to meet the strategic direction of projects and to stay abreast of industry trends and changes and expand individual subject matter expertise. Can resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion.
- Continues to expand industry knowledge proactively through independent research, following relevant news publications, and application of work experience.
- Takes both a strategic and tactical approach to projects by providing guidance and leadership while also developing tools, materials, and other deliverables for clients.
- Facilities and creates content for a projects that include patient support program design, development and/or program optimization.
- Lead and manage client engagements, including meetings, workshops, and presentations both virtually and in person where needed.
- Conduct client needs assessments.
- Create engaging, informative, well-organized presentations.
- Ensure all client contractual deliverables are met as it relates to project scope and that expectations for overall satisfaction are achieved.
- Understand the core program requirements/intent and communicate effectively with project and client team, as well as external audiences.
- Deliver structured problem solving, research, and analysis with guidance; distill insights from analysis and draft potential strategic recommendations.
- Resolve and/or escalate issues in a timely fashion.
- Exercise sound judgment and oversight to ensure integrity and compliance with company policies in all activities and communications while fostering Archbow core values and leadership behaviors.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED
- Bachelor’s Degree required in Medical Sciences, Marketing, or Business preferred from an accredited institution
- Minimum of 5 years of related industry experience
- Able to work independently
- Strong oral, written and presentation skills required
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Process Flow (e.g., Visio)
- Active listening
- Solutions-oriented
- Attention to detail with strong research capabilities
- Organization skills - ability to prioritize multiple deliverables and projects to meet deadlines
- Solutions-oriented with an ability to think critically and creatively to resolve obstacles
- Demonstrates acute attention to detail and high-quality outputs
- Demonstrates professional behavior, both internally with colleagues and externally with clients and other industry partners
TRAVEL
- 15-20%
LOCATION
- Work from home (remote-based)
The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.
- $170,000 - $190,000
Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.
