**Company Description**
EVERSANA INTOUCH® is a leading full-service, global healthcare agency serving the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries. We provide next-generation creative and media services, enterprise solutions and data analytics services for clients. We combine the power of world-class creative and digital teams with deep market access, payer, and healthcare communications expertise to provide innovative solutions to life science companies that want to connect with consumers, healthcare professionals, and payers. We get fired up when people talk about getting—and staying—healthy. That’s where we find our inspiration: in the very human experiences of patients, doctors, and even each other. Then, we collaborate on ways to make caring for one’s health more achievable, connecting patients and physicians with the information and tools they need. And as a part of EVERSANA, a pioneer in next-generation commercial services, we connect dots that other agencies can’t, helping drive commercialization success. Our nine affiliates within the EVERSANA INTOUCH Network include EVERSANA INTOUCH Solutions, EVERSANA INTOUCH Proto, EVERSANA INTOUCH Seven, EVERSANA INTOUCH Oxygen, EVERSANA INTOUCH Healthware, EVERSANA INTOUCH Medical Communications, EVERSANA INTOUCH Market Access, EVERSANA INTOUCH Media and EVERSANA INTOUCH TTC As an** Account Director**, you will provide strategic guidance in developing and leading tactical integrated marketing plans and other complex projects for clients. In this role you will be an extension of the client team and as the day-to-day relationship lead, addressing concerns while identifying incremental opportunities. You will be also accountable for counseling clients on effective strategy based on research and best practices to meet their objectives. As an AD you will own the book of business and business growth efforts. Internally, you organize, grow, and develop the team, while externally ensuring the health of the client relationship within and beyond the assigned brand team. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:**
- Participate in vision setting for the client business, ensuring the broader team executes it through to delivery of work
- Establish cross-collaboration with internal teams and agency partners, and foster sound relationships internally
- Externally, ensure health in the client relationship in and beyond the assigned brand team
- Provide clients with research, analytical metrics, and strategic insight to develop and presents effective solutions
- Oversee the delivery and financial impact on budget, and brand target goals and objectives with the client
- Provide strategic leadership in developing and leading strategic and tactical interactive marketing plans and other complex projects for clients.
- Counsel clients on effective marketing strategy based on research and best practices to meet the clients’ needs and objectives.
- Ultimately accountable to the senior level client, provides advice and maintains relationships addressing concerns or needs and develops additional opportunities.
- Oversee and lead the development of the entire campaign and project plans.
- Research, develop and collaborate with other Account Directors, agency departments and partners to continuously develop the integrated solutions offering from EVERSANA INTOUCH. **Qualifications** MINIMUM KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES**:
The requirements listed below are representative of the experience, education, knowledge, skill and/or abilities required.
- Strong and applied understanding of strategic planning, brand planning, pharmaceutical product life cycle management, digital development, and processes
- Native/ fluent English a must, additional languages welcome
- Demonstrate accuracy in reviewing junior team-developed scopes for GAD/VP approval
- Demonstrate accountability for financial tracking and management of client budgets and communicating with client teams and senior leadership
- Own and lead monthly budget reconciliation and forecasting efforts
- Able to collaborate and effectively manage at all levels and functions internally, and externally with clients and agency partners
- Demonstrate leadership and mentoring skills, including assisting GAD with junior account staff team development
- Able to create strategic decks and lead/facilitate presentations
- Big picture thinker with an understanding of client business and long-term goals
- Demonstrate problem solving skills
- Exhibit leadership and strong mentoring skills
- Demonstrate grace under pressure
- Thinks critically, knows when the team is moving too fast and needs to pause and re-evaluate
- Able to de-escalate a situation and create a clear path for the team to move forward **PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS**: - Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree ideally in communication/marketing, economy, biology/pharmacy and/or another scientific pathway
- Approximately 8-12 years of related industry experience: client-side brand team, consultative,