VP Account Director

Omnicom Precision Marketing Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Omnicom Precision Marketing is seeking a seasoned VP, Account Director in New York City to lead senior client relationships and drive profitable growth. You will partner with Creative, Strategy, and Operations leads to deliver innovative work within budget and timing parameters, while mentoring junior team members and shaping yearly SOWs.

The role demands 12+ years in an agency setting with strong DTC/HCP pharmaceutical experience, exceptional communication, and finance acumen.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of agency experience
• Minimum 5+ years of management experience
• Pharmaceutical HCP/DTC experience a must
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Highly organized with creative problem-solving and attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal skills to foster department relationships
• Ability to interact with and manage clients with decision-making responsibility
• Experience with budgets and finance savvy
• Ability to translate business and marketing requirements into viable solutions
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day senior clients
• Ensure successful development and completion of the client engagement
• Maintain superior relationships across departments and convey strategic goals to the agency team
• Ensure the agency delivers high quality work, meets client objectives and leads the category
• Be responsible for profitable growth by adding new divisions or assignments
• Mentor junior level team members and develop client business opportunities
• Collaborate with finance and department heads to develop yearly SOWs
• Report on account performance and identify best practices to drive efficiency
• Develop new initiatives through understanding the client’s content area
• Pursue new ways to contribute to agency and client revenue and profitability
• Work closely with project management for project execution

Skills

Executive communication

Relationship management

Interpersonal skills

Budget & finance savvy

Strategic thinking

Client growth planning

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent business experience

Job description

Agency

Omnicom Precision Marketing

Job Function

Account Management and Growth

Job Subfunction

Account Management

Job Description

MRM is part of the Omnicom Precision Marketing activation practice. This practice integrates CRM platform expertise, journey management, and first-party data capabilities with creative excellence and performance capabilities, enabling Omnicom to deliver intelligent activation across the full funnel with data-driven decisioning at scale to help clients move faster and deliver more connected customer experiences. MRM is a modern relationship marketing agency dedicated to building enduring brand relationships. MRM's specialized capabilities drive relationship lifetime value and span CRM, Customer Experience, and Commerce with data and martech at the core. MRM operates in a borderless, integrated way to enable greater collaboration, creativity, and true speed to market. For more information, please visit www.mrm.com. The VP, Account Director leads and ensures the agency is delivering on necessary expectations. Manage the service expectations of the client through open and honest discussions between agency and client management. Builds and maintains a solid client relationship based on mutual trust and respect through the creation of a customized team. Partners with Creative, Strategy and Operations Leads to deliver work that is innovative, on strategy and within budget and timing parameters.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day senior clients
• Ensure successful development and completion of the client engagement
• Maintain a superior relationship with all departments in the agency and understand the strategic goals of the account and contribute to their communication to the agency team
• Ensure the agency is giving its highest quality, meets client objectives and leads the category
• Be responsible for profitable growth by adding new divisions or assignments
• Manage and mentor junior level team members
• Build client business - Identifies short term and long-term opportunities, business building as well as learning
• Develop in collaboration with finance and department heads yearly SOW
• Report on account performance
• Identify best and new practices, which drive efficiency and effectiveness of the agency to deliver against the client's objectives
• Develop new initiatives through thorough understanding of the client's content area
• Aggressively pursue new ways to contribute to overall agency and client revenue and profitability
• Work closely with project management for the successful execution of projects

Education And Experience

• 12+ years of Agency experience
• Minimum 5+ years of management experience
• Pharmaceutical HCP/DTC experience a must
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Highly organized and creative problem-solving skills, and detail oriented
• Must have strong interpersonal skills to foster optimal department relationships
• Ability to interact with, and manage clients with decision making responsibility
• Experience with budgets and finance savvy
• Ability to translate business and marketing requirements into viable solutions
• Minimum of a bachelor's degree or equivalent business experience preferred

This role will be based in New York City. The salary range for this position is $150,000 to $200,000. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; the associated discipline; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

$150,000 - $200,000

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$150,000 - $200,000