Harrison and Star

VP, Strategy Director

Harrison and Star$180K — $210K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree with 5-7 years of experience in an agency, preferably in pharmaceuticals.
  • Strong research/data focus with a foundational skill set in strategy.
  • Proven experience in internal team and brand strategy development.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with oratory talent.
  • Demonstrated leadership abilities with sound judgment.

Responsibilities

  • Drive disruption by challenging conventional thinking in client strategies.
  • Mentor junior strategists to enhance their skills and promote engagement.
  • Build and maintain strong relationships with senior clients to exceed strategic expectations.
  • Lead and facilitate ideation sessions using innovative disruption methodologies.
  • Conduct in-depth client and agency research to uncover new insights for branding.
  • Identify trending topics and monitor cultural macro-trends for strategic relevance.
  • Collaborate with account and creative managers to develop brand positioning and creative briefs.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with required in-office attendance for a minimum of three days a week.
  • Opportunities for career growth and development through mentorship.
  • Engagement in creative disruption and innovative strategic methodologies.
  • Access to a dynamic work environment within a leading health agency.
Full Job Description
Agency:
Omnicom Health

Job Function:
Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction:
Account Planning and Brand Planning

Job Description:
Title: VP Strategy Director

Location: Wildtype - New York, NY (Hybrid)

Department/Discipline: Strategy

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 senior 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

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years' prior work experience, preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired)

General computer proficiency

Prior internal team and brand strategy experience

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

Able to work hybrid in our NYC office$180,000 - $210,000

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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