VP, Account Director

Agency:
Remedy Edge

Job Function:
Account Management and Growth

Job Subfunction:
Account Management

Job Description:
Title: VP, Account Director
Department: Account Services
Your Role: VP Account Directors run a book of business at Remedy Edge. They are responsible for helping their clients and our agency to meet their strategic and financial goals. They are strategic thinkers, liaisons between agency functions integrators, and problem-solvers
Core Competencies: Strong and proven leadership skills, Accountability, Decisiveness, Collaborator, Strong Management and Mentorship Skills
What You'll Do:
• Begins to own senior client level relationships, acting as a key decision-maker and brand steward at the agency
• Lead the team as an expert on multichannel experiences
• Leverage your experience and agency knowledge to keep the team several steps ahead of timeline, budget, and workflow.
• Guides team to avoid pitfalls that have been issues in the past
• Work with management to appropriately staff brands and ensure equitable division of work among staff.
• Fosters collaborative environment across teams.
• Be a manager and coach who recognizes and develops talent
• Navigate complex situations with tact, diplomacy, and a solution-oriented focus
• Grow business through pitches, new business, and organic growth
• Identifies opportunities where agency COEs (Centers of Excellence) can be leveraged for their clients
• Develop an agency-wide presence that transcends individual assignments
• Manage team finances in partnership with Project Management team
• Contributes to the agency by leading initiatives that help better agency vision/goals
What You'll Need:
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Superior organizational skills
• Able to take the leads across a multi-disciplinary team
• Excellent presentation skills with an ability to present ideas to brand teams and clients
• Specific leadership level knowledge of all common agency projects and intiatives
• Able to travel to client meetings
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 10 years of medical marketing and/or agency experience
• Previous experience managing a high performing team(s)
• A specialist in Patient Pharmaceutical advertising
This is a hybrid position. As per Omnicom policy, hybrid employees are expected to be in the office 3 days/week.$135,000 - $179,000

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.