VP, Account Director

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The VP, Account Director, Growth is a hybrid client and growth leader responsible for nurturing and expanding a portfolio of approximately three Publicis Health clients while supporting priority pitches and new-business opportunities across the network. Reporting to Publics Health’s Chief Growth Officer, this leader will translate client and market needs into compelling narratives, future-forward solutions, and measurable revenue growth.

This position sits in the Publicis Health Growth Team and works in partnership with the individual Agencies’ growth teams. This isn’t a sales role – it’s a role that fulfills growth opportunities independently from Publicis Health or supports the Agencies in their own new business pursuits. If the Account Director helps win a piece of business they will have the option to either transition that business to a new Account Lead or to stay with the business.

The right person enjoys both account management and growth, thrives in ambiguity, and can mobilize the broader Publicis Health network to deliver.

• 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.
• Connect the right expertise to each opportunity and demonstrate that together we go further.

• Manage your own priorities, workflows, timelines, and deliverables without dedicated project management support.
• Use AI proficiently to accelerate research, thinking, content development, and execution.
• Operate with autonomy, sound judgment, urgency, and accountability.
• Roll up your sleeves and contribute wherever needed to move the…