Agency:
Omnicom Health
Job Function:
Strategy and Planning
Job Subfunction:
Account Planning and Brand Planning
Job Description:
Title: Strategy Director
Location: Hybrid in New York City
YOU ARE THE DISRUPTION DRIVER You've always understood that to be disruptive is better than to be conventional. To pursue challenges is more admirable than to be complacent. You don't settle, and you won't let your team, or your clients accept less than the best that their capabilities allow. And you routinely remind them that what's possible should never be underestimated.
The status quo exists to be examined and defied. You build strong relationships with your clients and help them to embrace this idea and realize the true potential of their brands. You refuse to accept "this is how we've always done it" and push instead for "how has it never been done?" You establish new models and approaches that introduce unexpected solutions to brand challenges. And your leadership gives your team and your clients the confidence to reach outside the familiar.
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 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
In person client travel is required
POSITION REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor's degree and 5+ years' prior work experience, preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired; oncology experience a plus)
General computer proficiency, including fluency in PowerPoint; Experience using generative AI tools in strategy workstreams, a plus.
Prior internal team and brand strategy experience, including creative brief development, and delivery, and ongoing support of creative ideation.
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.$145,000 - $165,000
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.
