Strategy Director

Wildtype is a sister agency of Remedy Edge within Omnicom Health. This role is exclusively with Wildtype, the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare, powered by diverse ideas, knowledge, and people. Our unique creative process removes obstacles between brand and growth in innovative ways.

About the role

As a Disruption Driver, you challenge the status quo and push for unconventional solutions. You build strong client relationships, helping them embrace disruption and realize their brand’s true potential. Your leadership inspires teams and clients to think beyond the familiar, establishing new models and approaches to brand challenges.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to a culture that grows and motivates colleagues and clients to adopt Disruption and new methodologies 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.
• Create and facilitate agency and client ideation sessions, employing Disruption and other facilitation tools.
• Lead client and agency research through innovative methods to gain insights into brands.
• Contribute to and lead various aspects of Disruption Live by identifying trending topics and monitoring macro-trends in culture.
• Collaborate with account and creative managers to develop brand positioning, Disruption roadmaps, and creative briefs.
• Generate insights from diverse data sources to drive Disruptive creative and brand ideas.
• Support 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 an authority within the opportunity.
• Travel in person to client locations as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of 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, delivery, and ongoing support of creative ideation.

Skills

• Research and data focus
• Independence and leadership
• Patience, confidence, and strategic agility
• Creativity and sound judgment for conflict resolution
• Strong oratory talent, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to command a room

Pay

$145,000 - $155,000

Schedule

Hybrid in New York City, with a minimum of three days per week in the office. Additional in-office days may be directed by the agency or manager.