VP, Account Group Supervisor

At DDB Health, we believe health can’t wait. The pace of healthcare is accelerating—and we love it. That is why at DDB Health, we DARE TO DO BOLDLY. We believe there’s nothing more important than health, and we need to stay a step ahead in order to achieve it. Our agency of courageous, curious, generous and gritty people is committed to solving the toughest health challenges.

Through our omnichannel creative approach, we inspire our customers to take bold action that advances health.

Inclusivity:
We, at DDB Health, are an inclusive home. We believe that every voice matters, and we aim to reflect the world around us. Together, we can boldly tackle every health communication challenge with diverse thought and enhanced perspective.

Flexibility (new):
At DDBH we have a flexible hybrid working environment with employees able to split their time between the Soho headquarters and their home office, Friday afternoons free of meetings, Summer Fridays, and other perks and arrangements that enable our people to do their best work. We strive to be our boldest and best no matter where we are each doing our work – either with our clients, from home, or from the office.

DDB Health is a global network of healthcare communications companies dedicated to helping clients use creativity—and creative technology—as a force for good health. Through deep insight into customers, channels, and behavior, DDB Health creates meaningful change on behalf of important healthcare brands.

Company/Location: DDB Health, New York

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage brand strategy and ensure tactical implementation relating to brand strategy
• Provide short- and long-term direction for brand
• Create new business along brand lines
• Provide strategic direction and approvals at significant steps in the advertising creative process
• Provide strategic perspective on tactical POA recommendations and pieces prior to client submission
• Interact with all members of the agency brand team to ensure accuracy of information exchange and smooth flow of brand work
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of the account and make recommendations for change
• Generate actionable brand insights and present recommendations to clients
• Strong grasp of innovative trends in healthcare and ability to interpret data, leveraging brand knowledge for client insight generation
• Flawless management of account finances, including forecast and income generation and reporting to Senior Leadership at Agency
• Build strong relationships with client team
• Work with Director of Client Services and Creative Directors to ensure that account is staffed appropriately to meet client needs, including provision of rationale for deviation in staff requirements and supporting information
• Identify new business opportunities and participate and present in agency new business initiatives as requested
• Partner with creative and medical teams to regularly and proactively identify brand opportunities
• Advocate for full team participation in field research, meetings and conferences as brand need demands
• Serve as brand steward as it relates to strategy for all marketing segments, including professional, PR, medical education, DTC, global markets
• Provide client with new, and unexplored opportunities for the brand, leveraging network resources such as disease awareness/PR programs, DTC, DTP, market access and global Omnicom network hub pull through
• Ensure that account team is trained appropriately with respect to writing contact reports, creative work plans, and strategic points of view, agency process, and brand market knowledge
• Ability to manage multiple-agency collaborations both in and outside the network
• Ability to lead scope of work and staffing negotiations
• Maintain a strong market knowledge of existing competition and pipeline products in brand category
• Model core values of Courage, Curiosity, Generosity, and Grit
• In person client travel is required

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 10+ years pharma or healthcare advertising; HCP experience necessary
• Global brand experience a plus
• Launch experience
• Strong conceptual skills
• Significant background in pharmaceutical advertising Account Services
• Ability to craft presentations (new business,…