Associate Director, Innovation & Growth Strategy

Omnicom Health Group is the largest healthcare marketing and communications network in the world—partnering with clients to achieve meaningful change through better, more innovative communications. With more than 5,000 dedicated healthcare communications specialists from every corner of science, medicine, marketing, and communications, we recognize that it takes the best of talent to deliver the best of health.

When you join Omnicom Health Group, you have access to opportunities across the most networked network. What does this mean for you? Your journey may start with one Omnicom Health Group company then pivot to another, followed by a move to another where you take your career in a whole new direction building your skills and experience each step on your journey. We’re eager for you to carve a path that works for you – and we’ll help you make it happen.

Title: Associate Director, Innovation & Growth Strategy

Location: New York, NY

Department/Discipline: Strategy

Associate Director, Innovation & Growth Strategy - Healthcare/Pharma Advertising

Help define and expand the future of our Innovation and Growth strategy team! As an Associate Director, you will be an integral strategic leader defining and guiding healthcare partners (Pharma & MedTech) on new innovative business initiatives and technologies to adopt and execute upon to drive performance. You will also be responsible for continually updating and optimizing our internal innovation resource library to ensure all Propeller teams have the necessary tools and training to be able to turn innovation into action.

Your contribution would include:

• Resource Development: Continue to update and evolve Innovation hub resources on Pulse to ensure internal team has the necessary tools to turn innovation into action; support the development of external facing Innovation hub to showcase agency's new innovation offering
• OHG Liaison: Partner with OHG Digital Fusion team to cross-share innovation best practices and learnings to better provide recommendations that are backed in experience and data
• Presentation: Develop and lead (in partnership with experience strategy and account) impactful client workshops to bring innovation to life in a meaningful, immersive way
• Creativity and Innovation: Think big and creative across a wide range of strategic opportunities to support varying stages of a brand’s lifecycle; guide and support innovative activations to impact and influence healthcare strategies
• Leadership: Support operationalizing innovative excellence to ensure healthcare clients and internal teams are educated and motivated to do breakthrough digital
• Strategy: Leverage a deep understanding of brand marketing to sell in new client initiatives and experiences that apply data, innovation, cultural intelligence across business planning and ongoing active (versus passive) client opportunities
• Trend-watching: Keep a pulse on market trends to optimize and support progressiveness for clients and employees
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Support ad hoc client innovation needs in closer partnership with brand experience strategist

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Significant background in healthcare, focus in pharmaceutical
• Content marketing expertise to bring stories to life in decks in order to sell in new innovative thinking and technologies
• A self-starter who is collaborative and works well in an agile, entrepreneurial environment
• Preferably local
• A passion for innovative thinking, technologies and always looking to the next big thing
• Strong business judgment, decision making, and analytical skills
• Preferably local to the NY or NJ area to be able to come into the Summit, NJ office as needed on a monthly basis
• An engaging leadership presence that comes across equally strong in person, over the phone and through writing
• 5+ years of experience in brand or digital strategy for an in-house agency
• People management experience
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills with the ability to work across multiple priority initiatives at once
• Deeply familiar with omnichannel brand strategy and its executions, including data, media/social, field and experiential activations

The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health Group company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

• $135,000 - $154,000

Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed, and we’re focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.