Harrison and Star

VP Account Director

Harrison and Star$150K — $200K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of agency experience required
  • 5+ years of management experience essential
  • Pharmaceutical HCP/DTC experience required
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
  • Highly organized with strong problem-solving capabilities
  • Strong interpersonal skills for effective client management
  • Experience in budget management and financial acumen

Responsibilities

  • Manage senior client relationships daily
  • Oversee development and execution of client engagements
  • Strengthen inter-departmental relationships and align on strategic goals
  • Ensure high-quality outputs that meet client objectives
  • Drive profitable growth through new business opportunities
  • Mentor junior team members for skill development
  • Report on account performance and identify process improvements

Benefits

  • Collaborative and innovative work environment
  • Opportunities for professional growth and mentorship
  • Access to cutting-edge tools and resources in marketing tech
  • Involvement in high-profile pharmaceutical accounts
  • Flexible in-office attendance policy with phased increase in requirements
Full Job Description
Agency:
Omnicom Precision Marketing

Job Function:
Account Management and Growth

Job Subfunction:
Account Management

Job Description:
MRM is part of the Omnicom Precision Marketing activation practice. This practice integrates CRM platform expertise, journey management, and first-party data capabilities with creative excellence and performance capabilities, enabling Omnicom to deliver intelligent activation across the full funnel with data-driven decisioning at scale to help clients move faster and deliver more connected customer experiences.

MRM is a modern relationship marketing agency dedicated to building enduring brand relationships. MRM's specialized capabilities drive relationship lifetime value and span CRM, Customer Experience, and Commerce with data and martech at the core. MRM operates in a borderless, integrated way to enable greater collaboration, creativity, and true speed to market. For more information, please visit www.mrm.com.

The VP, Account Director leads and ensures the agency is delivering on necessary expectations. Manage the service expectations of the client through open and honest discussions between agency and client management. Builds and maintains a solid client relationship based on mutual trust and respect through the creation of a customized team. Partners with Creative, Strategy and Operations Leads to deliver work that is innovative, on strategy and within budget and timing parameters.

In This Role, You Will:
• Manage the day-to-day senior clients
• Ensure successful development and completion of the client engagement
• Maintain a superior relationship with all departments in the agency and understand the strategic goals of the account and
contribute to their communication to the agency team
• Ensure the agency is giving its highest quality, meets client objectives and leads the category
• Be responsible for profitable growth by adding new divisions or assignments
• Manage and mentor junior level team members
• Build client business - Identifies short term and long-term opportunities, business building as well as learning
• Develop in collaboration with finance and department heads yearly SOW
• Report on account performance
• Identify best and new practices, which drive efficiency and effectiveness of the agency to deliver against the client's objectives
• Develop new initiatives through thorough understanding of the client's content area
• Aggressively pursue new ways to contribute to overall agency and client revenue and profitability
• Work closely with project management for the successful execution of projects

What We Are Looking For:
• 12+ years of Agency experience
• Minimum 5+ years of management experience
• Pharmaceutical HCP/DTC experience a must
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Highly organized and creative problem-solving skills, and detail oriented
• Must have strong interpersonal skills to foster optimal department relationships
• Ability to interact with, and manage clients with decision making responsibility
• Experience with budgets and finance savvy
• Ability to translate business and marketing requirements into viable solutions
• Minimum of a bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience preferred

This role will be based in New York City. The salary range for this position is $150,000 to $200,000. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; the associated discipline; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications$150,000 - $200,000

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.

About Harrison and Star

Harrison and Star is a healthcare advertising agency that provides marketing and advertising services to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The company offers a range of services including brand strategy, creative development, digital marketing, and market research. Harrison and Star was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Learn more about Harrison and Star
Size
500 employees
Industry
Founded
1986
NASDAQ

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