Senior Vice President, Group Account Director

Company Description

Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness is looking for a SVP, Group Account Director to join our team in New York.  

For decades, Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness has provided consumer and professional marketing, strategic consulting, and medical education to pharmaceutical and wellness brands. Our mission is to inspire a healthier, happier, well-er world through award-winning work.  

If you google us (which you may have done already), you’ll see that spreading wellness is literally our mission. We don’t just talk about making your well-being the most important thing, we mean it. Having a flexible hybrid-work policy, plentiful time off, and colleagues who want you to do well are all part of the gig. Oh, and of course the opportunity to work on some of the good-vibiest campaigns on the planet with very caring, very resourceful people.    

So, if you’re a rockstar writer, aspiring strategist, jill—or jack—of all trades, or just an all-around nice person, let’s chat.     

Job Description

Responsibilities 

Client: 

• Understand and monitor variety of therapeutic areas and treatment trends (and ability to rapidly come up to speed on new therapeutic areas for new business opportunities) 

• Demonstrate strong experience and expertise in 1-2 therapeutic areas 

• Understand and monitor new and pipeline competitors – strengths, weaknesses and areas of opportunity and threat for client brand 

• Ensures high agency visibility and awareness of mission. Actively seeks new assignments, revenue opportunities. 

• Generates ‘big ideas’. Contributes to world class creative. 

• Ensures solid strategic solutions at all levels 

• Champions agency and sister agencies. Networks effectively and appropriately. 

• Identifies ways to strengthen relationships 

• Resolves client conflicts effectively, professionally  

Internal: 

• Leadership: inspires and motivates staff to effectively deliver and exceed goals. Advocates for and engenders loyalty to brand, business unit 

• Management: actively participates in recruitment and development of direct team members (and others within agency as appropriate) 

• Exposure within entire Publicis Health network 

• Takes and delivers on leadership opportunities for agency 

Financial and Operational: 

• Ultimate responsibility for forecasting, budgeting accurately.   

• Continuously strives for revenue growth and margin profitability 

• Demonstrates strong financial acumen 

• Cogently outlines financial and staffing issues for executive management 

• Participates in development of annual business plan 

Agency: 

• Consistent, outstanding performance against departmental and agency objectives 

• New Business acumen 

• In-depth (and wide breadth) advertising knowledge: multi-disciplinary 

• Category/field expert 

• Goes above and beyond consistently 

• Creative, effective problem solver 

• Integrity: represents agency well internally, with clients, and in the world 

• Fiduciary responsibility 

Qualifications

Required Competencies: 

• Proven new business skills 

• Evidences global awareness, experience  

• Financial acumen 

• Proven management skills: strong coaching skills 

• Networking and interpersonal skills: highly refined, positive internal working relationships at all levels and within all departments 

• Integrity: is the face of the brand and SSNY in all life aspects: must adhere to highest levels of integrity at all times 

• Passion for the Pharma client experience and business 

• 15-20 years of business experience: Pharma client-side experience required.  

• 5-7 years of managerial experience required. 10+ preferred 

Preferred: 

• MBA 

• Extensive Pharma client experience 

• Extensive advertising agency experience 

• Ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge of several therapeutic areas/ brand categories 

Additional Information

Compensation Range: $167,000 - $299,500 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay