Vice President, Strategy

Omnicom Health Group is the largest healthcare marketing and communications network in the world—partnering with clients to achieve meaningful change through better, more innovative communications. With more than 5,000 dedicated healthcare communications specialists from every corner of science, medicine, marketing, and communications, we recognize that it takes the best of talent to deliver the best of health.

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Title: Vice President, Strategy

Company/Location: New York, NY

Department/Discipline: Strategy

The Vice President, Strategy is a conscientious, collaborative, creative, and—most importantly—curious core member of the Biolumina team. The VP will be responsible for driving marketing strategy across all agency brands by deriving a deep understanding of the market, customer, competition, and brand; helping translate that into a unique and motivating narrative; and converting it into actionable recommendations for clients. The essence of this position is to find the signal in the noise of a large quantity of complex information and rapidly distill it. The successful candidate will be passionate about uncovering novel insights and developing innovative ideas, and be able to share perspectives clearly and persuasively across multiple internal and external partners. The VP will be evaluated on ability to uncover fresh business opportunities and share these opportunities with colleagues in order to ultimately be a part of the larger, collaborative team that creates positive change for HCPs and patients.

Primary Responsibilities

• Monitor the pharmaceutical/biotech industry in general, as well as oncology specifically, and be able to rapidly communicate trends and business opportunities to colleagues and clients
• Understand and assess available tools and data resources; recommend tools that would expand agency capabilities
• Understand beliefs (rational and emotional) of the target audiences (HCPs and patients) as well as drivers and barriers of behavior, and identify leverage points for change
• Demonstrate primary and secondary research capabilities, knowledge of market research design methodology, and ability to interpret results
• Design customized workshops (eg, positioning, messaging, competitive analysis) and dynamically lead facilitation
• Develop strategic deliverables that include but are not limited to: competitive analysis; brand positioning; creative core idea; market research synthesis, creative brief, workshops (activities and output reports), and brand plans
• Uphold the Company Values in all decisions and interactions

Qualifications

• 5-8 years’ experience in pharmaceutical marketing and/or strategy consulting in pharmaceuticals/healthcare or pharmaceutical advertising agency experience
• Experience with oncology brands
• Strong presentation and moderation skills and exceptional slide deck storytelling capabilities

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.

• $138,000 - 191,000

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.