Director, Brand Strategy

Starcom Mediavest Group Germany Gmbh

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

Qualifications

  • Experience with pharmaceutical brands is preferred
  • Deep immersion in clients' commercial and clinical business
  • Ability to build strong, trusting client relationships
  • Competency in brand strategy, creative development, and digital engagement
  • Strong storytelling skills and clarity in communication
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrated leadership and collaboration abilities

Responsibilities

  • Develop and nurture strong client partnerships
  • Guide strategic direction for brand development and marketing
  • Understand client business objectives and competitive landscape
  • Analyze client customers' behaviors across their journey
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop strategies
  • Create insightful POVs on business-critical trends
  • Lead workshops and internal brainstorms for innovative solutions

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Disability insurance and 401K plans
  • Parental and family care leave
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Flexible time off policy
Full Job Description
Job Description

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

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.

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