Saatchi & Saatchi

Director, Brand Strategy

Saatchi & Saatchi$106K — $170K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience with pharma brands preferred
  • In-depth understanding of commercial and clinical aspects of clients' businesses
  • Proven ability to build strong, trust-based client relationships
  • Diverse competency in brand strategy, creative development, and digital engagement
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
  • Collaborative mindset with strong leadership capabilities

Responsibilities

  • Develop strong client relationships as a strategic business partner
  • Guide strategic direction for clients' brand development and marketing
  • Gain comprehensive understanding of clients' business objectives and competitive landscape
  • Analyze clients' customers' journey and behaviors
  • Advocate for SSW's strategic skillsets and solutions
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on brand and communications strategies
  • Generate insights that inform effective marketing and creative strategies

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical coverage
  • Dental and vision insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • 401K plan
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
Full Job Description
Overview

Are you an innovative strategist who's keen to apply your talent to the health and wellness space? Would you like to work in one of the fast growing and most innovative therapeutic categories? Would you like to be part of the largest healthcare communications network in the world? Do you believe in challenging convention and pushing for new ways to look at things? Do you enjoy working in a collaborative, fast-paced environment? Do you have a passion for inspiring and nurturing great ideas? If so, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:
  • Developing strong client relationships as a key strategic and business partner
  • Guiding the strategic direction in relation to our clients' brand development and marketing approach
  • Gain a deep, holistic and evolving understanding of our client's business objectives, challenges, threats and opportunities - including forward looking awareness of emerging competitive threats
  • Developing a deep understanding of our clients' customers' wants, needs, and behaviors across the full customer journey (awareness > trial > continuation)
  • Developing an understanding and ability to advocate for the full suite of strategic skillsets and solutions offered by SSW
  • Collaborating with the creative, account, strategy, medical and analytics teams on business, brand and communications/content strategies
  • Developing POVs for our clients around business-critical issues and trends
  • Mining provocative insights that form the basis for effective communication, marketing, business and creative strategies
  • Developing inspiring creative and project briefs
  • Ability to lead the translation of insights into strategies and tactics
  • Leading internal brainstorms and client workshops
  • Participating in new business pitches
  • Partnering with clients on market research activities

Qualifications

Skills/experience required:
  • Experience with pharma brands would be a plus
  • Able to become deeply immersed in our clients' business on both a commercial and clinical/scientific level
  • Able to develop strong client relationships and trust based on deep immersion in their business
  • Bring a rounded competency set spanning brand strategy/creative development/digital engagement, or, in other words
    • Creative thinker
    • Adept at storytelling
    • Able to simplify and clarify complex concepts
    • Excellent analytical skills
  • Presence and personality, or, in other words
    • Superb and persuasive communications skills, both written and verbal
    • Clients and the internal team want to work with you
  • Collaborative approach
  • Leadership skills

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

Compensation Range: USD $106,780.00 - USD $170,937.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 8/3/2026.

About Saatchi & Saatchi

Saatchi & Saatchi is a global advertising agency headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in London in 1970 by brothers Maurice and Charles Saatchi and is now part of the Publicis Groupe, a French multinational advertising and public relations company. Saatchi & Saatchi has over 6,000 employees in 114 countries and provides a range of advertising and marketing services to clients in various industries, including automotive, consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications. The company is known for its creative and innovative advertising campaigns, including the iconic 'Nothing is Impossible' campaign for Toyota. Saatchi & Saatchi has won numerous awards for its work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and Effies.
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