EVP, Health Portfolio Growth & Leadership

Publicis Groupe; New York, Chicago (NY, IL); On-site; USD 280,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Publicis Health, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks an EVP, Business Lead to oversee a significant portfolio of client relationships, driving growth, profitability, and delivery excellence across two or more client engagements.

As the senior business leader, you will align cross-functional teams, manage strategic priorities, and shape offerings at portfolio level, balancing client value, talent health, and financial performance.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of progressive leadership experience across complex client businesses.
• Experience leading multiple client relationships with enterprise-level financial accountability.
• Deep understanding of healthcare marketing and the medical, legal, regulatory, privacy, and reputational considerations associated with complex healthcare client businesses.
• Demonstrated success strengthening senior client relationships, improving account health, growing existing business, and navigating complex client organizations.
• Executive presence, sound business judgment, candor, resilience, and the ability to create alignment and make difficult trade-offs in ambiguous or high-stakes situations.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a comprehensive understanding of each client’s business, strategic priorities, market dynamics, organizational environment, financial outlook, and evolving needs.
• Develop an integrated view of the portfolio, identifying patterns, dependencies, risks, and opportunities across client businesses.
• Anticipate market, client, and organizational changes that may affect relationship health, growth, talent requirements, or financial performance.
• Ensure individual business strategies and account plans reflect both immediate client priorities and longer-term partnership opportunities.
• Use client, financial, operational, and talent indicators to assess portfolio health and determine where leadership attention or intervention is required.
• Own the organic growth agenda across the portfolio, ensuring each client business has a clear, actionable growth plan.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities based on client need, strategic fit, relationship strength, agency capability, financial value, and delivery feasibility.
• Serve as executive sponsor for the portfolio’s most significant organic growth opportunities, ensuring the right proposition, leadership, capabilities, investment, and governance are in place to convert them.
• Expand relationships across senior client stakeholders and identify opportunities to increase the breadth, depth, and strategic value of each client partnership.
• Connect client needs to differentiated Publicis Health and Groupe capabilities, working with relevant capability and business leaders to develop integrated solutions.
• Maintain visibility into the portfolio growth pipeline and hold business leaders accountable for advancing qualified opportunities from identification through approved scope and revenue realization.
• Own the total financial performance of the portfolio, including revenue, organic growth, profitability, forecasting, staffing, investment, and financial risk.
• Establish clear financial and commercial expectations for each client business and hold business leaders accountable for delivering against them.
• Maintain an integrated view of the financial landscape across the portfolio, including current performance, forward-looking forecast, scope stability, resource requirements, margin pressure, and growth potential.
• Make or recommend portfolio-level trade-offs across staffing, investment, scope, timing, quality, profitability, and growth based on client and agency priorities.
• Partner with Finance, Project Management, Business Management and business leaders to ensure forecasts are credible, risks are surfaced early, and corrective actions are taken when performance is off track.
• Ensure commercial agreements and delivery models support strong client outcomes, sustainable team performance, and appropriate agency value.
• Escalate significant client, commercial, financial, delivery, regulatory, or reputational risks with a clear assessment and recommended action.
• Shape how emerging technology, data, and AI are applied across the portfolio to improve client value, team effectiveness, financial performance, and growth.
• Champion responsible adoption and build the case for investments, tools, and capabilities that strengthen portfolio performance.
• Translate emerging capabilities into differentiated client solutions, more effective operating models, and new sources of competitive advantage.
• Align senior Account, Project Management, Strategy, Creative, Medical, Data, Technology, and other capability leaders around the needs of each client business.
• Convene the right Publicis Health and Groupe leaders and capabilities to solve significant client challenges and advance portfolio growth opportunities.
• Ensure integrated leadership teams have clear roles, decision rights, governance, and shared accountability for client and business outcomes.
• Resolve cross-functional or cross-agency barriers that could compromise client confidence, delivery quality, financial performance, or talent health.
• Identify capabilities, expertise, or operating-model changes needed to strengthen current client businesses or create new value.
• Promote effective sharing of talent, learning, solutions, and proven practices across the portfolio when doing so improves client or agency outcomes.
• Lead the most consequential client conversations, including relationship challenges, strategic inflection points, commercial negotiations, significant delivery concerns, and growth opportunities.
• Build trust through candor, business judgment, responsiveness, and a consistent focus on creating value for both the client and agency.
• Ensure client feedback is translated into concrete action and that agency leaders remain aligned on relationship priorities and commitments.
• Represent the agency as a senior business partner while ensuring specialist and discipline leaders have the space and authority to contribute their expertise.
• Own the overall talent health of the portfolio, ensuring each client business has the leadership, capabilities, capacity, and continuity required to deliver and grow.
• Maintain an integrated view of talent risks across the portfolio, including leadership gaps, workload sustainability, capability needs, performance concerns, retention risks, and succession requirements.
• Hold business leaders accountable for performance management, talent development, team culture, and succession within their respective businesses.
• Partner with Managing Directors, discipline leaders, Talent, and agency leadership on senior staffing, succession, performance, promotion, retention, and recruitment decisions.
• Deploy and rebalance leadership and talent across the portfolio based on client need, business opportunity, financial health, and employee development.
• Create mobility, stretch assignments, and development opportunities that strengthen the portfolio while building future business leaders.
• Foster an environment of accountability, inclusion, collaboration, constructive challenge, continuous learning, and sustainable high performance.
• Intervene when client demands, operating practices, leadership behaviors, or staffing models place team health or delivery sustainability at risk.

Skills

Executive leadership

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Financial acumen

Change leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience

Job description

Publicis Health, part of Publicis Groupe, seeks an EVP, Business Lead to oversee a significant portfolio of client relationships, driving growth, profitability, and delivery excellence across two or more client engagements.

As the senior business leader, you will align cross-functional teams, manage strategic priorities, and shape offerings at portfolio level, balancing client value, talent health, and financial performance.