Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Avalere Health is a healthcare-focused company whose Advisory, Medical, and Marketing teams work to improve patient outcomes. The Account Director will serve as a strategic client partner for pharmaceutical marketers, leading client relationships, multichannel marketing strategies, brand planning, account growth, and financial oversight.
Responsibilities
- Relationship master, able to confidently build client relationships and provide best in class client service
- Demonstrate strong facilitation and meeting management skills, able to run client sessions without additional senior level account support
- Able to develop a deep understanding of the client's market, trends, influencers, competitors, key players, budget and performance metrics
- Offer proactive multichannel and digital marketing guidance, grounded in a deep understanding of brand strategic imperatives, clinical data, industry best practices and emerging trends
- Lead the agency team in developing multichannel marketing strategies and campaigns, including but not limited to the annual brand planning process, that drive engagement and growth for client’s brands
- Able to facilitate a client through new work scope definition and subsequently document the details in the Statement of Work in partnership with delivery team and subject matter experts
- Develop and maintain revenue projections, identifying growth opportunities on assigned businesses to create additional value for the client and agency
- Accountable for the financial health of their accounts, including oversight of revenue projections, project profit margins, and timely invoicing and payments
- Collaborate with cross-functional agency team members by providing objective direction and feedback that inspires innovative, creative ideas and tactics that have measurable impact
- A natural problem solver, identifies and diffuse conflict situations, establishing consensus to drive the team toward solutions
- Effectively manages the dynamics of working with client’s agency, vendor and media channel partners to the benefit of the brand
Skills
- - 8+ years of agency account management experience, with at least 5 years of pharmaceutical advertising experience
- - BA/BS degree required
- - Must possess a deep and thorough understanding of the pharma/healthcare advertising industry, including new product launches
- - Experience leading digital marketing initiatives
- - Strong digital omni-channel background
- - Demonstrated effectiveness in managing multiple clients across an organization and agency partners
- - Marketing acumen and demonstrated experience in leading an integrated agency team in brand planning, budget development, execution and measurement
- - Demonstrated success at developing valued relationships with senior-level clients, and building relationships across all client levels
- - Demonstrated success as strategic partner to clients
- - Demonstrated presentation, verbal, written and communication skills
- - Must demonstrate hands-on proficiency in developing and delivering presentations in PowerPoint
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work
- Option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year
- 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested)
- Life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Medical, dental, and vision plans
- 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day
- 9 public holidays
- Gifted end-of-year holidays
- Early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August
- Free counselling through the employee assistance program
- Personalized health support
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies
- Continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business
- Six Employee Network Groups – Diverse Ability, Family, Gender, LGBTQ+, Mental Health, and Race/Ethnicity
- Dedicated social opportunities and resources for homeworkers
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