Senior Vice President, Strategy

The Senior Vice President, Strategy is a conscientious, collaborative, creative, and—most importantly—curious core member of the Biolumina team. The SVP will be responsible for driving marketing strategy across all agency brands by deriving a deep understanding of the market, customer, competition, and brand; helping translate that into a unique and motivating narrative; and converting it into actionable recommendations for clients. The essence of this position is to find the signal in the noise of a large quantity of complex information and rapidly distill it. The successful candidate will be passionate about uncovering novel insights and developing innovative ideas, and be able to share perspectives clearly and persuasively across multiple internal and external partners. The VP will be evaluated on ability to uncover fresh business opportunities and share these opportunities with colleagues in order to ultimately be a part of the larger, collaborative team that creates positive change for HCPs and patients.

• Monitor the pharmaceutical/biotech industry in general, as well as oncology specifically, and be able to rapidly communicate trends and business opportunities to colleagues and clients

• Understands and accesses available tools and data resources; recommends tools that would expand agency capabilities

• Understand beliefs (rational and emotional) of the target audiences (HCPs and patients) as well as drivers and barriers of behavior, and identify leverage points for change

• Demonstrate primary and secondary research capabilities, knowledge of market research design methodology, and ability to interpret results

• Design customized workshops (eg, positioning, messaging, competitive analysis) and dynamically lead facilitation

• Develop strategic deliverables that include but are not limited to: competitive analysis; brand positioning; creative core idea; market research synthesis, creative brief, workshops (activities and output reports), and brand plans

• In person client travel is required

• 10 years’ experience in pharmaceutical marketing and/or strategy consulting in pharmaceuticals/healthcare or pharmaceutical advertising agency experience

• Experience with oncology brands (preferred)

• Strong presentation and moderation skills and exceptional PowerPoint storytelling capabilities

• Always ask why—of your teammates, your clients, and yourself. And don’t stop there— keep asking questions

• Be respectful of others’ ideas, opinions, and diverse backgrounds

• Be flexible and adaptive to new ways of doing things

• Speak your mind…and your heart

• Courageously step forward to try something new and help others to do the same

• Be brave enough to defend your opinions—and brave enough to change them

• Be proactive and push things forward

• Reach out to offer help and raise your hand to ask for help

• Go out of your way to show gratitude

The range below represents the low and high end of the base salary someone in this role may earn as an employee of an Omnicom Health company in the United States. Salaries will vary based on various factors including but not limited to professional and academic experience, training, associated responsibilities, and other business and organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of our total compensation package for employees. Salary decisions are dependent on the circumstances of each hire.

Range: $180,000 - $266,500