Executive Vice President, Client Lead

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

PHM, the leading health media agency in the US, seeks an EVP, Group Client Lead to guide senior client relationships, organic growth, and cross-functional teams across assigned accounts.

You will oversee approximately 80 professionals, shape medical marketing strategies, and drive performance using data and creativity in a fast-moving pharma environment.

Qualifications

• Deep pharma media experience across conditions, disease states, and audiences.
• Broad cross-channel media knowledge beyond pharma (e.g., CPG, retail).
• Understanding of the marketing process and strategic role of media.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership across multiple client accounts and organic growth.
• Manage ~80 cross-functional employees and ensure cross-team collaboration.
• Lead pitch teams, new initiatives, and drive client relationships at senior levels.
• Shape client marketing priorities and deliver high-standard written and verbal communications.

Skills

Pharma media experience

Cross-channel media knowledge

People management

Executive client leadership

Job description

Company description

PHM is the leading health media agency in the US, built for the modern healthcare experience. Here, industry depth meets media scale, where data becomes direction, where creativity and storytelling bring truth to life, and where orchestration replaces fragmentation.

Dedicated to making brands discovered, PHM redefines what media can do through data, content, and creativity. Because in modern healthcare, the brands that are found are the ones that lead. And when brands lead, advantage follows. Go deeper. Be found.

Overview

The EVP, Group Client Lead provides leadership across multiple large and small clients at the executive level. This person reports into the Management Team, and is ultimately accountable for their assigned client relationships, organic growth, agency growth,and the excellence of cross-functional teams within all assigned accounts.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Knowledge

• Deep Pharma media experience across a diverse set of conditions, disease states, and audiences (DTC, HCP, Payer, etc.)
• Perspective beyond Pharma to bring best practices across audiences and channels (e.g. CPG, retail)
• Understands the total marketing process and the strategic role of media
• Ability to predict industry trends and deliver significant insight to client's business
• Provides written and verbal thought leadership in the form of POV’s, articles, interviews, etc. in the trades or at conferences

Managing and Leading Others

• Builds trust, models inclusion, and shows respect for all employees
• Practices active listening to resolve issues and identify opportunities
• Exerts lateral influence to manage approximately 80 cross-functional employees
• Provides clear communication on business initiatives and client requests
• Participates in formal development process, including performance management, goal-setting, mid- and yearly reviews, and coaching
• Nurtures and develops senior-level talent on assigned accounts
• Ensures teams are properly trained on tools and processes
• Participates in PHM’s recruitment and interviewing efforts

Organic Growth and New Business

• Sets organic growth goals for each account
• Generates a roadmap for organic growth on each client
• Refers new clients to PHM
• Leads pitch teams, task forces, etc.
• Develops, recommends and drives new agency initiatives
• Resources appropriate PHM, Publicis Health and Publicis Groupe products and offerings to drive growth
• Seeks out opportunities to upsell and cross-sell to existing clients
• Manages account resources and operations
• Assists on the scoping process

Client Service

• Responsible for the top-to-top relationship with senior-level clients, agency partners, Groupe leadership, and vendor executives
• Conveys passion for clients and their businesses
• Has an onsite presence with clients
• Works with senior clients to shape their marketing priorities
• Takes initiative in developing new client relationships
• Models outstanding client service for team
• Drives professional, impactful standards within team for all written and verbal contact with clients; 'gold-standard' writer and presenter
• Serves as point of escalation for client concerns

Qualifications

• 20+ years management experience
• Deep cross-channel media knowledge and experience
• Pharmaceutical industry required

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact [e-mail].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $0.00 - USD $0.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. 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 range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/30/2026.