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About the Role

The Account Director manages day-to-day account operations, builds trusted client relationships, and ensures the agency delivers work that meets brand and business objectives. This role acts as a trusted advisor, immersing themselves in the brand to develop strategy and translate it into actionable recommendations. The Account Director serves as a key connector between client priorities and agency work across creative, medical, digital, and analytics, ensuring alignment and quality execution. They will independently own the brand foundation and daily account management, while partnering with senior leadership on complex client relationships.

Responsibilities

Manage client relationships, expectations, and deliverables day to day, ensuring client satisfaction, accountability, and successful project outcomes.
Learn and apply the full breadth of agency offerings to bring value to the client, serving as an invaluable partner to senior leadership on senior-level client relationships.
Review creative work to ensure it is on-strategy and meets client expectations, offering clear, constructive recommendations to the team.
Stay ahead of competitive trends, industry shifts, and client research to deliver forward-thinking points of view to clients.
Monitor monthly and quarterly financials, forecasts, and budgets, partnering with senior account leads to help the team achieve financial targets and milestones.
Foster strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal connection within the team and across departments.
Contribute to new business efforts, including attending and participating in pitches.
Proactively grow and retain talent at the agency by managing and mentoring team members.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in advertising, with HCP advertising and digital marketing experience preferred.
Experienced presenter, able to command a room with both small and large groups.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience developing and delivering strategic and tactical plans.
Strong client engagement skills, including proactive communication, meeting management, presentation development and delivery, and responsiveness to questions and issues.
Solid financial management skills, including experience with project budgets, financial reporting (weekly, monthly, quarterly), and annual SOWs.
Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and departments.

Skills

Client management
Financial acumen
Strategic thinking
Communication
Presentation development
Collaboration
Digital marketing
HCP advertising

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

8+ years

Salary/Compensations

$75,000—$180,000 USD

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

About the Company

OGILVY HEALTH: WE INSPIRE PEOPLE AND BRANDS TO IMPACT THE WORLD. Ogilvy Health, part of WPP, combines borderless creativity, scientific precision and cultural fluency to build healthcare’s most influential movements. We drive measurable impact and category-defining growth for brands ready to shape what’s next. Our approach is powered by fearless creativity that dares to be different, sparks emotional connections, and inspires action, ensuring cultural resonance. Scientific precision translates complex data into stories that resonate, while our impact-obsessed mindset focuses on delivering real-world outcomes.
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression. We believe in building powerful teams with purpose – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality. Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Equal Opportunity

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.
If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.