VP, Strategy Director

Adelphi Group • New York, NY

75d • $180,000 - $210,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Wildtype, a sister agency of Remedy Edge within Omnicom Health, operates with a unique, Agile approach to healthcare marketing. We are a force of nature, powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people, removing obstacles between brand and growth in innovative ways. This role is exclusively with Wildtype, though applications may appear under Remedy Edge. The VP Strategy Director is a 'Disruption Driver' who challenges the status quo, builds strong client relationships, and pushes for novel solutions. This individual will lead and mentor junior strategists, develop client relationships, facilitate ideation sessions, and drive research and insights using new methodologies. They will also contribute to new business pitches by managing customer insight generation and attending live pitch presentations as an authority.

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

Nice To Haves

• pharmaceutical experience highly desired

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director