Strategy Director

OLIXIR New York; New York (NY); On-site; USD 145,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Health is seeking a Strategy Director in New York. You will lead disruptive strategy development, build strong client relationships, and guide junior strategists. You will drive research-driven brand planning and oversee ideation sessions across teams.

You’ll bring 5+ years in pharma/oncology or agency strategy, with strong PowerPoint and AI-assisted strategy skills. In-office presence three days a week is expected in NYC.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ agency experience (pharma/oncology a plus).
• Proficiency in PowerPoint; experience using generative AI tools in strategy workstreams.
• Prior internal team and brand strategy experience, including creative brief development and delivery.
• Research/data focus and strong analytical capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop disruption-driven strategy and lead client engagements.
• Manage and mentor junior strategists for career growth.
• Cultivate meaningful client relationships and exceed expectations.
• Lead ideation sessions and apply disruption tools to sessions.
• Drive research and insights from data sources to inform brand ideas.
• Contribute to and lead pitches with insights tied to data findings.
• Travel for in-person client engagements as required.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Creativity

Strategic agility

Research/data focus

Independence

Patience

Oratory skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Generative AI tools

Job description

Job Description

Wildtype runs like no other. As the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare, we aren’t beholden to ritual. Powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people, our unique creative process is a force of nature, removing obstacles between brand and growth in wild new ways.

Agency

Omnicom Health

Job Function

Strategy and Planning

Job Subfunction

Account Planning and Brand Planning

Job Description

Wildtype runs like no other. As the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare, we aren’t beholden to ritual. Powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people, our unique creative process is a force of nature, removing obstacles between brand and growth in wild new ways.

Title: Strategy Director

Location: Hybrid in New York City

YOU ARE THE DISRUPTION DRIVER You’ve always understood that to be disruptive is better than to be conventional. To pursue challenges is more admirable than to be complacent. You don’t settle, and you won’t let your team, or your clients accept less than the best that their capabilities allow. And you routinely remind them that what’s possible should never be underestimated.

The status quo exists to be examined and defied. You build strong relationships with your clients and help them to embrace this idea and realize the true potential of their brands. You refuse to accept “this is how we’ve always done it” and push instead for “how has it never been done?” You establish new models and approaches that introduce unexpected solutions to brand challenges. And your leadership gives your team and your clients the confidence to reach outside the familiar.

What We Are Looking For

• Contribute to a culture that grows and motivates colleagues and clients to adopt Disruption and new methodologies uncovered as central to brand efforts
• Manage and mentor junior strategists to foster engagement through learning and development that leads to career growth
• Develop meaningful and productive client relationships to ensure strategic recommendations exceed expectations
• Help create and facilitate agency and client ideation sessions. Must be able to employ Disruption and other facilitation session tools
• Be a methodological and analytical leader in driving client and agency research through new ways of gaining insight into our brands
• Contribute to and lead various aspects of Disruption Live by finding trending topics and monitoring macro-trends in culture
• Work with account and creative managers to create brand positioning, Disruption roadmaps, and creative briefs
• Facilitate efforts at generating insights from a variety of data sources to ensure development of Disruptive creative and brand ideas
• Contribute to new business pitches by managing customer insight generation, which is tied to pitch product clinical data
• Interview target prospects to generate pitch content and story flow from findings
• Attend live pitch presentations and act as authority within the opportunity
• In person client travel is required

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ prior work experience, preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired; oncology experience a plus)
• General computer proficiency, including fluency in PowerPoint; Experience using generative AI tools in strategy workstreams, a plus.
• Prior internal team and brand strategy experience, including creative brief development, and delivery, and ongoing support of creative ideation.
• Research/data focus
• Independence
• Patience, confidence, and leadership
• Creativity and strategic agility
• Oratory talent, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to command a room
• Sound judgment and discretion for conflict resolution. $145,000 - $165,000

A foundational skill set defined by

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive 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. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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$145,000 - $165,000