Senior Vice President, CX

Publicis Health Media; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental and vision

401K

Paid time off

Job summary

Publicis Health Media is seeking a Senior Vice President to lead the Customer Experience (CX) function, setting vision and building high-performing teams across the agency and client portfolio. This role partners with executive leadership to translate insights into strategic initiatives that drive measurable business impact.

The ideal candidate brings 15+ years in CX/insights/strategy, 8+ years leading teams, and healthcare/pharma experience.

Qualifications

• Proven executive leadership experience building and leading strategic, cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success advising senior clients and influencing business strategy.
• Deep expertise in customer insights, research, experience strategy, and integrated marketing.
• 15+ years of experience in customer experience, insights, strategy, or marketing.
• 8+ years leading teams and developing organizational capabilities.
• Agency and healthcare/pharmaceutical experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision, strategy, and long-term evolution of the Customer Experience team.
• Establish best practices, frameworks, and methodologies that elevate strategic thinking.
• Champion a customer-first mindset and ensure insights are translated into actionable.
• Represent the CX discipline internally and externally through thought leadership, innovation, and industry engagement.
• Serve as the executive strategic advisor to senior clients and internal leadership.
• Guide teams in uncovering customer, market, and business insights that inform integrated marketing and experience strategies.
• Partner with Capability and Client leaders to ensure strategic alignment across disciplines.
• Identify emerging trends, technologies, and research approaches that strengthen client recommendations.
• Lead, mentor, and develop CX leaders while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture.
• Build organizational capability through coaching, succession planning, and talent development.
• Participate in recruiting, workforce planning, and capability growth initiatives.
• Contribute to agency growth through organic expansion, new business development, and strategic client partnerships.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify new service offerings and opportunities.
• Support business development efforts by leading strategic responses, presentations, and client engagements.

Skills

Executive leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Customer insights

Experience strategy

Integrated marketing

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 Senior Vice President, Customer Experience (CX) leads the Customer Experience capability, shaping how insights, strategy, and customer understanding drive business growth across the agency and client portfolio. Reporting to executive leadership, this role sets the vision for the discipline, develops high‑performing teams, and partners with cross‑functional leaders to ensure every engagement is grounded in meaningful customer insights and delivers measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

Senior Vice President, Customer Experience

The Senior Vice President, Customer Experience (CX) leads the Customer Experience capability, shaping how insights, strategy, and customer understanding drive business growth across the agency and client portfolio. Reporting to executive leadership, this role sets the vision for the discipline, develops high‑performing teams, and partners with cross‑functional leaders to ensure every engagement is grounded in meaningful customer insights and delivers measurable business impact.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership

• Define the vision, strategy, and long‑term evolution of the Customer Experience team.
• Establish best practices, frameworks, and methodologies that elevate strategic thinking
• Champion a customer‑first mindset and ensure insights are translated into actionable
• Represent the CX discipline internally and externally through thought leadership, innovation, and industry engagement.

Strategic Leadership

• Serve as the executive strategic advisor to senior clients and internal leadership.
• Guide teams in uncovering customer, market, and business insights that inform integrated marketing and experience strategies.
• Partner with Capability and Client leaders to ensure strategic alignment across disciplines.
• Identify emerging trends, technologies, and research approaches that strengthen client recommendations.

People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and develop CX leaders while fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high‑performing culture.
• Build organizational capability through coaching, succession planning, and talent development.
• Participate in recruiting, workforce planning, and capability growth initiatives.

Business Growth

• Contribute to agency growth through organic expansion, new business development, and strategic client partnerships.
• Partner with executive leadership to identify new service offerings and opportunities.

Expand Customer Experience Capabilities

• Support business development efforts by leading strategic responses, presentations, and client engagements.

Qualifications

• Proven executive leadership experience building and leading strategic, cross‑functional teams.
• Demonstrated success advising senior clients and influencing business strategy.
• Deep expertise in customer insights, research, experience strategy, and integrated marketing.
• 15+ years of experience in customer experience, insights, strategy, or marketing.
• 8+ years leading teams and developing organizational capabilities.
• Agency and healthcare/pharmaceutical experience preferred.

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 $180,215.00 - USD $299,637.00/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 10/19/2026.