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Senior Account Director (Digital, Pharma Agency)

Closer Look$120K — $165K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of agency account management experience, including 5 years in pharmaceutical advertising
  • BA/BS degree required
  • Deep understanding of pharma/healthcare advertising and new product launches
  • Digital account management experience, particularly with websites
  • Strong omni-channel digital marketing background
  • Proven ability to manage multiple clients and agency partners
  • Expertise in integrated brand planning, budget development, and execution

Responsibilities

  • Maintain strong relationships with clients and provide strategic direction
  • Mentor and lead client services team to ensure timely and budget-conscious deliverables
  • Act as primary contact between clients and internal teams for effective communication
  • Understand clients' brands, therapeutic areas, and objectives thoroughly
  • Anticipate client needs and proactively recommend solutions
  • Supervise and manage daily operations of client services team
  • Communicate project updates across departments and ensure quality control

Benefits

  • 401K plan with employer match (immediately vested)
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible working arrangements with remote work options
  • 20 vacation days and a personal well-being day, plus public holidays
  • Enhanced family leave policies for maternity, paternity, and fertility
  • Access to free counseling and personalized health support
  • Opportunities for continuous professional development and global mobility
Full Job Description
About the role

This position interfaces with the client and the client services team to provide strategic direction and support on client accounts. The Senior Account Director manages and leads the client services team to effectively execute the strategic direction for client projects. The Senior Account Director manages the client services team across single or multiple clients. This position works directly with the client to ensure goals and objectives are being met. The Senior Account Director takes ownership of the campaign process from inception to completion. The role may also be responsible for supervising client services direct reports on a day to day basis.

What you'll do

  • Independently maintains relationship with client to strategic support and direction
  • Mentors, manages, and leads client services direct reports to ensure client deliverables are strategically on target and implemented on time and within budget
  • Primary contact between the client and internal agency team, working to ensure brand/medical education strategy is effectively communicated and understood by team members
  • Has a full understanding of the clients brand, therapeutic area and objectives
  • Uses independent judgment and discretion to act as a bridge between the client and brand/medical education strategy
  • Supervises client services team members
  • Manages day to day client service business to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget
  • Ability to anticipate client needs and make recommendations
  • Simultaneously handles multiple projects and clients under pressure and tight deadlines
  • Works with multiple departments to ensure overall quality control of projects, including providing meaningful input as to employee performance and other issues within the agency
  • Constantly communicates with all departments, providing necessary project updates
  • Performs administrative tasks necessary to meet client deliverables
  • Attends meetings to discuss client projects and give status updates
  • Up to 25% travel
  • Performs other duties as assigned


About you

  • 10+ years of agency account management experience, with at least 5 years of pharmaceutical advertising experience. Digital background required managing websites.
  • BA/BS degree required
  • Must possess a deep and thorough understanding of the pharma/healthcare advertising industry, including new product launches
  • DAOR experience strongly preferred
  • 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


$120,000 - $165,000 a year

We are committed to offering a competitive and fair salary that reflects your location, qualifications and the experience you will bring to our team. Salary ranges posted are dependent upon experience.

What we can offer

You will receive a 401K plan with an employer match contribution up to 4% (immediately vested), as well as life insurance, disability coverage, and medical, dental, and vision plans for peace of mind. Enjoy flexible working arrangements, including hybrid and remote work, along with the option to work from anywhere across the globe two weeks each year. We provide 20 vacation days plus one personal well-being day, recognise 9 public holidays, along with gifted end-of-year holidays and an early Summer Friday finish in June, July, and August.

Access free counselling through our employee assistance program and personalized health support. Our enhanced maternity, paternity, family leave, and fertility policies provide support across every stage of your family-planning journey. You can also benefit from continuous opportunities to professionally develop with on-demand training, support, and global mobility opportunities across the business.

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