Strategy Director

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.

About the role

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. 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 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. Your leadership gives your team and your clients the confidence to reach outside the familiar.

Responsibilities

• 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; 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 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

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 is a plus
• Prior internal team and brand strategy experience, including creative brief development and delivery, and ongoing support of creative ideation

Skills

• 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

Pay

$145,000 - $165,000

Schedule

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.