Harrison and Star

Associate Director, Engagement Strategy

Harrison and Star • $120K — $160K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related field preferred
  • 4+ years of experience in Healthcare marketing
  • Strong expertise in Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for high-pressure presentations
  • Effective active listening skills with a collaborative mindset
  • Familiarity with brainstorming tools like Stormz, Miro, or Mural
  • Experience in mentoring and guiding junior team members

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily account activities and create detailed project briefs
  • Build collaborative relationships with account management and creative teams
  • Synthesize insights to align engagement strategies with brand goals
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of on and offline channels
  • Serve as a key team member ensuring quality in strategic and creative outputs
  • Present strategic ideas and support senior team members in pitches
  • Collaborate agency-wide to drive project results and growth

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment with a minimum of three days in-office
  • Opportunity for professional mentorship and development within a collaborative team
  • Involvement in diverse projects across healthcare clients
  • Engagement in dynamic brand experiences that foster creativity
Full Job Description
Agency:
Olixir

Job Function:
Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction:
Strategy

Job Description:

Job Description:

About the Job

Crafts innovative plans for healthcare clients as an Associate Director of Engagement Strategy, driving value through dynamic brand experiences that resonate with targets. You'll dive deep into foundational strategy elements, leveraging research and insights to develop customer journeys and activation points. Collaborating with diverse experts, you will distill complex ideas into actionable plans, showcasing how all channels and platforms unite to bring the brand promise to life. With a creative and flexible approach, you'll facilitate workshops, develop engagement ecosystems, and drive project briefs that spark meaningful connections.

A Day in the Life
  • Oversee day-to-day activity on assigned accounts, creating project briefs, and collaborating with larger brand teams to examine and recommend engagement strategies.
  • Develop collaborative relationships with account management, strategic planning, media, creative counterparts, and senior marketing clients.
  • Synthesize insights into actionable plans to drive brand goals, marrying strategic and creative aptitude to create meaningful engagement strategies.
  • Provide insights into the value and limitations of on and offline channels.
  • Serve as a key engagement team member on the brand team, ensuring quality strategic and creative products, and lead accounts with limited supervision.
  • Present ideas to clients, support senior team members on new business pitches, and mentor junior-level engagement strategists.
  • Work closely with all stakeholders, agency-wide, to drive results and growth.


What You Will Need
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing or related major (preferred), with 4+ years of experience in Healthcare marketing.
  • In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, with the ability to build complex stories and presentations.
  • Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present in high-pressure situations, including new business pitches.
  • Good active listening skills, with a collaborative working style, and ability to work constructively through conflicts.
  • Proficiency in brainstorming software such as Stormz, Miro, and/or Mural, and ability to independently run workshops on online collaboration platforms like Zoom.
  • Ability to guide junior team members through new projects, and prioritize their learning and development.


$120,000 to $160,000

Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom's corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
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Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
1986
NASDAQ

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