Agency:Remedy Edge
Job Function:Strategy and Planning
Job Subfunction: Account Planning and Brand Planning
Job Description: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.
Title: Strategy Director
Location: Hybrid in New York City
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 - $155,000
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.
