Harrison and Star

Associate Director, Strategy

Harrison and Star • $120K — $130K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years' experience, primarily in agency (pharma preferred)
  • Solid internal team and brand strategy background
  • General proficiency with computer software
  • Strong focus on research and data analysis
  • Effective communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Leadership abilities with a knack for conflict resolution

Responsibilities

  • Contribute to a culture encouraging innovation and new methods
  • Mentor junior strategists for their professional development
  • Foster senior client relationships to enhance strategic outcomes
  • Guide ideation sessions using Disruption and other tools
  • Drive research initiatives for insights into brands
  • Collaborate with team on brand positioning and creative briefs
  • Lead customer insight generation for new business pitches

Benefits

  • Collaborative work environment in a growing agency
  • Opportunities for professional development and mentorship
  • Flexible work policy with an anticipated increase in office attendance
  • Involvement in cutting-edge methodologies like Disruption
  • Direct engagement in client relationships and presentations
Full Job Description
Agency:
Remedy Edge

Job Function:
Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction:
Account Planning and Brand Planning

Job Description:

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY

Wildtype is a sister agency of Remedy Edge within Omnicom Health. This position may appear under Remedy Edge for application purposes; however, the role is exclusively with Wildtype.

What we are looking for:
  • Contribute to a culture that grows and motivates colleagues and clients to adopt Disruption and new methodologies uncovered as central to brand efforts
  • Manage and mentor junior strategists to foster engagement through learning and development that leads to career growth
  • Develop meaningful and productive senior client relationships to ensure strategic recommendations exceed expectations
  • Help create and facilitate agency and client ideation sessions. Must be able to employ Disruption and other facilitation session tools
  • Be a methodological and analytical leader in driving client and agency research through new ways of gaining insight into our brands
  • Contribute to and lead various aspects of Disruption Live by finding trending topics and monitoring macro-trends in culture
  • Work with account and creative managers to create brand positioning, Disruption roadmaps, and creative briefs
  • Facilitate efforts at generating insights from a variety of data sources to ensure development of Disruptive creative and brand ideas
  • Contribute to new business pitches by managing customer insight generation, which is tied to pitch product clinical data
  • Interview target prospects to generate pitch content and story flow from findings
  • Attend live pitch presentations and act as authority within the opportunity


POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years' prior work experience, preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired)
  • General computer proficiency
  • Prior internal team and brand strategy experience
  • A foundational skill set defined by
    • Research/data focus
    • Independence
    • Patience, confidence, and leadership
    • Creativity and strategic agility
    • Oratory talent, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to command a room
    • Sound judgment and discretion for conflict resolution.

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.
  • 120,000-130,000

$120,000-$130,000

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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500 employees
Industry
Founded
1986
NASDAQ

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