About the Role
The Associate Director, Strategy leads media strategy and planning for assigned clients, providing day-to-day functional management and ensuring excellence in media strategy. This role oversees media planning initiatives and ensures strategic media approaches align with business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Drive the media planning process, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
- Oversee media strategy development, including channel mix recommendations and budget allocation.
- Provide initial perspectives on media strategies and approaches.
- Manage multiple accounts, transitioning seamlessly between them.
- Represent the interests of cross-functional teams in client and agency partner meetings.
- Push for continuous improvement of self, team, and client deliverables.
- Stay informed on industry trends, emerging media opportunities, and Publicis Groupe capabilities.
- Contribute to new business and organic growth efforts.
- Serve as a primary point of contact for day-to-day client communications.
- Build strong relationships with clients, demonstrating an understanding of their business priorities.
- Provide strategic input to help shape clients’ marketing priorities.
- Present media strategies and performance updates effectively, leveraging strong communication skills.
- Advocate for client needs while ensuring agency best practices are upheld.
- Manage and mentor a team of direct and indirect reports.
- Oversee onboarding, training, and development processes.
- Provide ongoing coaching, performance management, and professional development.
- Manage and delegate team workload, ensuring quality outcomes and deliverables.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Participate in PHM’s hiring efforts by assessing and onboarding new talent.
- Work collaboratively with internal teams to drive integrated media strategy initiatives.
- Partner with internal cross-functional leaders to ensure strategic alignment of deliverables with client needs.
- Provide input on deliverable timelines in partnership with cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years media planning experience.
- 2+ years management experience.
- 1+ year Cross-channel media planning experience in 4 channels (Digital, Video, Print, OOH, DTC, HCP, Payer/Managed Market).
- 2+ years: HCP/Pharma media planning and media strategy experience.
- Familiarity with standard media research and planning tools (e.g mediaocean).
Experience Level
- Associate Director
Salary/Compensations
- USD $81,225.00 - USD $129,987.00/Annually
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental
- Vision
- Disability
- 401K
- Parental and family care leave
- Family forming assistance
- Tuition reimbursement
- Flexible time off
About the Company
- PHM is the leading health media agency in the US, built for the modern healthcare experience.
- Industry depth meets media scale, where data becomes direction, where creativity and storytelling bring truth to life, and where orchestration replaces fragmentation.
- Dedicated to making brands discovered, PHM redefines what media can do through data, content, and creativity.
- In modern healthcare, the brands that are found are the ones that lead.
- When brands lead, advantage follows.
- Go deeper. Be found.
Equal Opportunity
- Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger.
- We honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization.
- We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.
- All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
