Senior Strategist

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Title: Senior Strategist

Location: New York, NY

Department/Discipline: Strategy

Description:

The Senior Strategist is a conscientious, collaborative, creative, and—most importantly—curious core member of the Biolumina team. They will be responsible for supporting senior team members and owning strategic projects through learnings about the market, customer, competition, and brand; researching and summarizing data and information into actionable implications and 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 be able to share perspectives clearly and persuasively across multiple internal and external partners. This person will be evaluated on ability to uncover new opportunities for brands and share these opportunities with colleagues and ability to help manage tasks and time of junior members of the team.

Responsibilities

Support/Assist (20%)

• Understand and access available tools and data resources

Organize/Create (40%)

• Support the creation of 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
• Support design of customized workshops (eg, positioning, messaging, competitive analysis) with guidance from manager

Develop/Mentor (15%)

• 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
• Oversee interns in market, agency, and customer knowledge
• Develop knowledge of market research design methodology, and ability to interpret and communicate results

Foster/Partner (15%)

• Increase peer and team knowledge of key insights around the market, customer, and product
• Maintain strong working relationships
• Tailor information to internal and external audiences

Seek (10%)

• Recommend new approaches to solve client challenges and address changes in the market
• Recommend tools that would expand agency capabilities
• 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

Qualifications: 2-3 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

Biolumina Values

Open Mind

• Always ask why—of your teammates, your clients, and yourself. And don’t stop there—keep asking questions
• Be respectful of others’ ideas, opinions, and diverse backgrounds
• Be flexible and adaptive to new ways of doing things

Brave Heart

• Speak your mind… and your heart
• Courageously step forward to try something new and help others to do the same
• Be brave enough to defend your opinions—and brave enough to change them

Ready Hands

• Be proactive and push things forward
• Reach out to offer help and raise your hand to ask for help
• Go out of your way to show gratitude

Key Verbs

• Support
• Partner
• Develop
• Mentor/Foster
• Assist
• Seek

Best advice we'd give someone at this level:

Point a path forward.

Use the information and resources at your disposal to suggest implications or an approach.

How would we answer the question: "What is the most important thing to care about at my level?"

Be proactive -- don't wait for direction to act on something you think is relevant and timely for the brand

What it takes to get to the next level:

Consistent proactivity -- without asking, identifying trends or news important to your brand, identifying novel approaches to specific client requests -- new ways to organize information, new ways to organize discussions.

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.

• $100,000 - $122,500

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.