VP, Group Account Director

Adelphi Group•Summit, NJ

4d•$143,000 - $199,500•Hybrid

About The Position

Propeller is a full-service healthcare marketing agency with a focus in digital transformation. Propeller partners with pharma and medtech clients to reimagine commercial growth through tailored, modern solutions leveraging its end-to-end capabilities across experience strategy, emerging tech, AI as well as legacy creative, client services, and everything in between. With a team of 150 digital-native specialists - and the power of the Omnicom Health ecosystem behind us—we blend scale and resources with a culture defined by grit, passion, and authenticity. Headquartered in Summit, NJ, with talent placed globally, we have been named as MM+M’s Best Places to Work in 2025, as well as awarded for by DigiDay for excellence in onboarding and best workplaces for working parents. If you want to help drive the future of healthcare marketing, bring fresh and progressive thinking, and thrive operating with agility, we want to meet you!

Requirements

7+ years of relevant experience in healthcare marketing
2 years of supervisory experience
An engaging leadership presence that comes across equally strong in person, over the phone and through writing
Ability to build and foster strong, collaborative relationships
Strong business judgment and decision making
A self-starter who is collaborative and works well in an agile, fast-moving, and entrepreneurial environment
Ability to work across multiple high-profile and high-budget programs at once, in collaboration with multidisciplinary team members
Bachelor’s degree required

Responsibilities

Leading and operationalizing teams that profitably deliver work within a portfolio of accounts
Ensuring work is completed within budget by project
Owning the revenue and forecast for the brand
Determining and negotiating budget needs
Keeping management informed of account status, problems, plans and meetings and includes senior management as needed
Ensuring tactical and strategic integrity and training the account team in this regard
Responsible for the development of ongoing business on their accounts and identifying new business development opportunities (organic growth)
Engaging with senior level clients and continuing an ongoing relationship development
Identifying and proactively responding to needs that arise as well as leading longer term planning
Possessing a good foundation of knowledge of the category to which brands belong appropriately interpret market research data into brand ideas
Training, developing, and appropriately delegating to account team - encouraging and providing growth and development to junior account management team
Ensuring appropriate resource allocation and utilization across all departments
Managing tactical plan and SOW
Responsible for client relationships at all levels
Monitoring and evaluating the competitive landscape to prove senior level strategic insights
Mining new, organic business opportunities with existing clients, by building relationships across the client’s organization and with key industry partners
Establishing a strategic partnership with clients, ensuring agency POV is shared and delivered effectively
Identifying and solidifying client relationships beyond the day-to-day project owners
Partnering with clients to identify and strategize new project details and develop briefs
Overseeing regular client status meetings where team will communicate project development and maintain alignment with client objectives
Informing client on aspects and timing of project development, including internal agency process/requirements
Overseeing all agency communications with client stakeholders and extended team members to drive project execution (eg, MLR team, medical/marketing reviewers, partner agencies, KOLs)
Participating in and leading new business pitches
Team leader, provides clear and fair direction and feedback
Ensuring the right team members/departments are pulled into the appropriate projects/workstreams at the right time
Active in strategic development, establishing communication objectives and strategies to drive the brands forward
Oversight over the brand strategy, ensuring it is pulled through into all workstreams
Owning and communicating to the extended internal team
Networking and partnering with other agency leaders within the Omnicom network and identifying ways to partner together
Developing marketing strategy and tactical plans, including budgets and timelines
Communicating project and brand updates to team in a timely manner, including client shifts in project scope, direction, or timing that may impact agency resource requirements
Leading role in ensuring timely, accurate client documentation & correspondence of all Account team members
Setting priorities for the team while handling multiple projects and delegating work appropriately
Monitoring overall workload to improve efficiency and assure that waiting or downtime is minimized
Keeping department head apprised of any workload challenges/concerns on assigned team accounts that may necessitate hiring freelancers or FTEs
Monitoring, reviewing and approving direct report’s time sheets in terms of hours worked on specific jobs
Managing direct report(s) workloads and PTO to ensure clients and internal teams have the proper Account team support and coverage for your assigned account(s)
Providing constructive and direct ongoing feedback to direct reports
Evaluating performance of direct reports and completing and delivering performance reviews
Developing annual tactical plans and overseeing new SOW development throughout the year
Forecasting budgets and maintaining accurate phasing
Developing and administering clients' budgets based on accurate estimating and tracking of hours, and reconciliation against estimates
Continuously monitoring clients' budgets and raising client awareness as to when changes in direction or new requests impact scope
Meeting with agency leadership regularly to keep apprised on financial status of accounts
Taking on wider, formal and informal leadership responsibilities within the agency
Proactively providing suggestions that impact agency policy and operations and enhance the overall work environment
Driving the process and details of the day-to-day operations of the accounts
Working with other department heads to recommend adjustments/additions to roles and responsibilities of departments to achieve continuous improvement and efficiency across accounts
Interviewing, identifying, training and orienting new team members to the agency, department, and account(s) at the direction of department head
Providing ongoing guidance to all team members and being available to them as a resource for account/agency/departmental policies, procedures, etc.

Benefits

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