Senior Vice President, Group Strategy Director

About the role

You will set the strategic standard for a portfolio of pharmaceutical brands, ensuring that science, brand insight, and audience understanding are integrated into every client engagement. Operating at the highest level of client‑agency partnership, you will shape brand direction and the way strategy is built, sold, and delivered.

Key responsibilities

• Lead strategy across multiple pharmaceutical brands, therapy areas, and accounts.
• Set and evolve strategic direction across brand, medical, and creative disciplines.
• Partner with clients as a trusted strategic advisor at the executive level.
• Oversee and guide Brand Strategy Directors and Medical Strategy leadership.
• Define integrated brand and communication frameworks across portfolios.
• Ensure consistency, rigor, and commercial impact across all strategic output.
• Lead key brand and enterprise‑level planning engagements.
• Identify growth opportunities across accounts and new business.
• Champion the role of strategy in shaping creative excellence and business outcomes.

Required profile

• 11+ years of experience in brand strategy within pharma advertising or healthcare marketing.
• Proven leadership across multiple brands, teams, and complex client portfolios.
• Deep understanding of pharmaceutical markets, audiences, and regulatory environments.
• Strong track record of shaping high‑level brand and business strategy.
• Executive‑level client presence with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience leading and developing senior strategy talent.
• Ability to connect science, brand, and commercial strategy into a unified point of view.
• Strong cross‑functional leadership across creative, medical, and account disciplines.

Required skills