Senior Vice President, Insights + Analytics, True Global Inttelligence (Healthcare Sector)

FleishmanHillard; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

FleishmanHillard in its TRUE Global Intelligence practice seeks a Senior Vice President based in one of our core offices (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Washington D.C.). The role leads healthcare and life sciences research, analytics and strategic consulting to expand advisory services for healthcare clients.

You will drive business development, manage client relationships, lead dispersed teams and ensure high‑quality insights and outputs.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in market research, analytics, strategy or consulting (research/agency)
• Experience in client‑service capacity preferred
• Proven revenue growth and expanding client relationships
• Strong leadership and cross‑functional team management

Responsibilities

• Lead business development and expand opportunities across accounts.
• Provide strategic counsel and deliver research aligned with client needs.
• Build trusted relationships with healthcare and life sciences clients.
• Oversee revenue growth and profitability, manage P&L and align local/global strategy.
• Mentor staff and align teams with FH/TGI values and objectives.
• Guide feasibility, staffing, and project timing with leadership.

Skills

Leadership

Client relationship management

Strategic thinking

Analytical reasoning

Healthcare/LS market knowledge

Job description

Job Description

FleishmanHillard has an immediate opening for a Senior Vice President in its TRUE Global Intelligence (TGI) practice. The role is based in one of our core offices in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Washington D.C. The TGI practice serves as a strategic consultancy within the broader organization, harnessing research and data‑driven insights to achieve client business objectives. Work within TGI combines measurement, primary research, secondary research methods, AI integrations, advanced data analytics and strategic consulting.

Overview

The Senior Vice President must have demonstrable healthcare expertise, a deep understanding of key trends in the healthcare landscape, therapeutic areas, business models and regulatory environment, and must be able to position research and analytics strategically to healthcare clients. The core focus of this role is to grow TGI’s footprint among the firm’s healthcare and life sciences (H&LS) clients, identify expansion opportunities, build trust‑based relationships, and align research with the overall client strategy.

Responsibilities

• Actively engage in business development to identify, prioritise and amplify opportunities across accounts.
• Engage directly with clients to provide strategic counsel and deliver exceptional research that meets clients’ business needs.
• Establish trust, respect and credibility as a leader and business partner to account teams, intelligence teams, cross‑functional teams, partner agencies and clients, serving as a key liaison to H&LS leadership stakeholders.
• Bring new ideas into practice, develop them for commercialisation and benefit both the client and team.
• Accountable for revenue growth and profitability of client accounts to meet firm’s financial goals, managing P&L and aligning local and global strategy.
• Participate in internal and external new business pitches and proposals in partnership with the FH New Business team.
• Monitor and forecast business performance, costs and resources in partnership with the Finance team.
• Take a consultative approach to designing, selling and executing projects using appropriate methodologies and tools.
• Collaborate with FH colleagues to deliver outstanding insights and high‑quality results for the client.
• Work with the intelligence team to ensure the highest standards, strong methodologies and quality outputs across a range of methods.
• Engage stakeholders as a strategic consultant, ask the right questions, understand business objectives and scope research that has the most impact.
• Ensure that insights, research and intelligence are integral to client counsel and programming, integrating offerings and developing a cohesive team.
• Ensure that analysis and interpretation of data create a compelling story that meets client objectives.
• Manage and lead a geographically dispersed team of researchers focused on healthcare and life sciences clients, scaling teams as needed.
• Provide guidance on project feasibility, timing, staffing and alternatives, and work with account leadership on staffing and priorities.
• Drive culture alignment with FH and TGI principles and values, identify top talent, and mentor staff with an emphasis on collaboration, quality output and career development.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of professional experience in market research, marketing, insights, analytics, strategy development or consulting in a research firm, consulting or agency environment.
• Previous experience in a client‑service capacity is preferred.
• Excellent team leadership skills and a commitment to team member learning and career development.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with clients, team members and stakeholders.
• Track record of building successful relationships across organisations to promote the impact and value of research, analytics and insights.
• Demonstrable success growing revenue and expanding client relationships.
• Proven analytical and deductive reasoning skills; ability to translate findings into actionable insights and present them to a diverse audience.
• Experience with various research engagements, including corporate reputation, media monitoring, thought leadership, measurement and optimisation, brand positioning and AI integrations.
• Strategic thinker who understands marketing strategy and uses research methods and analysis to deliver actionable findings.
• Strong leader with experience managing large internal cross‑practice, cross‑functional teams and leading integrated agency planning teams.
• Broad understanding of core and emerging analytics methods and approaches, including statistical techniques to drive value.
• Enthusiastic about experimentation, comfortable with ambiguity in emerging technology landscapes and committed to building a research function that balances rigorous foundations with innovation.
• Ability to join a hybrid model of working in‑person in the office weekly.

Salary range: $110,000–$225,000. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) matching, paid time off and other applicable benefits.

FleishmanHillard is an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, ancestry, marital status, military status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected class under federal, state or local laws.