VP Group Account Director

Fingerpaint Marketing, Inc.; Cedar Knolls (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Fingerpaint Marketing, Inc. in New Jersey seeks a Group Account Supervisor to drive marketing strategy across segments and lead large client relationships. You will oversee project teams, manage budgeting, and ensure profitable delivery of programs.

The role requires 4 to 7 years' pharma advertising experience, excellent communication, and the ability to travel locally to NJ clients and the office periodically. Join a people-first agency focused on health and wellness campaigns.

Qualifications

• Active client service management, working directly with clients and executing projects.
• Demonstrate ability to drive a brand through a full cycle (POA, launch, positioning, new campaign).
• Excellent understanding of pharma advertising processes, data, and regulatory considerations.
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to present and persuade.

Responsibilities

• Oversee account team from brief to delivery, ensuring quality output.
• Provide strategic direction and approvals at major creative milestones.
• Oversee scope of work, staffing, and budgeting with PM and clients.
• Manage brand profitability by reviewing financial reports and ensuring revenue targets.
• Guide clients with advanced brand knowledge and therapeutic area expertise.
• Lead or contribute to agency-client strategic sessions and share outputs with the team.

Skills

Client service management

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Communication

Multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree

Job description

Reset your expectations of a health and wellness agency. From our inception, Fingerpaint has been driven by an unstoppable collective spirit of possibility. It’s that curiosity that’s at the heart of everything we do. From our legendary people-first culture to the hundreds of Fingerpainters who define us, we’ve reimagined what it means to be a healthcare and wellness advertising agency. Here, creativity happens naturally—we attract top talent and collaborate.

The Opportunity: Role Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and talented Group Account Supervisor to join our dynamic team. The Group Account Supervisor is responsible for driving marketing strategy across all segments, influences multiple or large-scale mid-level client relationships, and is responsible for managing the workload and profitability of the assigned business.

Note: Ability to travel locally to clients in NJ and into the NJ office periodically is required.

Key Responsibilities

Core Function:

• Oversee account team to drive and own assigned projects/programs from creative brief development through deployment; ensure total quality control of final output to client.

• Provide strategic direction and approvals at significant steps of the creative process (including positioning, messaging, campaign development, tactical development).

• Oversee contract development and scope of work/staffing plan development and approval by collaborating with project management, department heads, and clients.

• Manage brand profitability by evaluating/discussing financial reports to ensure projects are completed within budget and make recommendations to ensure revenue is achieved.

• Manage the account by appropriately guiding, instructing, and focusing the client using advanced knowledge of brand(s) and therapeutic area.

• Actively participate in and/or lead agency and client strategic sessions; generate output to be shared with broader team.

• Management of junior staff.

What You'll Bring: Required Qualifications

• Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree.

• Experience:

  • 4 to 7 years of pharmaceutical advertising agency experience.

  • Active client service management, working directly with clients and executing projects.

  • Demonstrate success in getting a brand through a whole cycle with varied experiences, such as POA, launch, positioning, new campaign, conventions, etc.

Specialized Knowledge:

• Familiarity with pharmaceutical medical, legal, regulatory (MLR) review process and systems.

• Understand FDA rules/regulations and life cycle of a brand.

• Solid grasp of brand operations: understanding the nuts and bolts of the account (brand style guide, PRC process, key data, etc).

• Excellent understanding of the digital marketplace and ad formats.

• Understand the core strategic elements of the development of a multichannel strategy.

Skills:

• Demonstrate strong written and verbal skills.

• Highly effective communication skills.

• Strong multitasker: ability to run multiple projects, priorities, and client demands.

• Ability to think strategically, creatively, and collaboratively.

• Demonstrate solid presentation skills.

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to Have)

• Understanding of capabilities within the media group and Shift.

• Understanding of Fingerpaint platform offering to contribute to developing client’s business.

• Advanced degree (e.g., Master's, PharmD, PhD).

Fingerpaint Group provides equal employment [and affirmative action] opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

Don’t meet every single requirement? That’s okay! Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Fingerpaint, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles! Our team of qualified recruiters can match you with the right opportunity. Fingerpaint Group provides equal employment [and affirmative action] opportunities to all applicants and employees. We are proud to recruit qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, or citizenship status.