About the Role
The VP, Management Supervisor is a client leadership role responsible for the overall health, growth, and performance of a broad client relationship. This individual owns the strategic direction and financials for their business, oversees multiple account team members, and serves as the primary agency leader in the eyes of client stakeholders, and marketing leadership. This leader operates at the intersection of client partnership, department leadership, and commercial ownership—setting the vision for how the business grows, ensuring integrated excellence across strategy, creative, medical, analytics, and project management disciplines, and building the next generation of account leadership talent. The VP, Management Supervisor is accountable not only for the performance of their brand, but for the strength, profitability, and trajectory of the business they oversee. Success in this role requires a strong presence, sharp commercial acumen, the ability to lead, and an unwavering commitment to positioning Ogilvy Health as an indispensable, category-defining partner.
Responsibilities
- Champion integrated thinking at scale, ensuring consistency, quality, and strategic rigor across every discipline and every team reporting into the business.
- Anticipate industry, competitive, and market shifts at a category level, translating them into proactive guidance for clients and forward-looking business strategy.
- Model and instill a culture of accountability, excellence, and continuous growth across all teams within the business.
- Held accountable for brand financial performance, including forecasting, project tracking, and highlight the need for resource allocation discussions across the business.
- Lead, manage, and develop a team of account leaders, setting performance goals, coaching leadership capability, and building succession-ready talent.
- Actively involved in business development, including identifying, pursuing, and directing for organic growth.
Requirements
- 12+ years of pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences advertising experience, including demonstrated experience managing and developing other account leaders.
- A track record of owning financial responsibility for a client business, including job tracking, forecasting, and financial growth.
- Strong experience developing multi-tiered account teams, including other people managers.
- Polished presence and the confidence to represent the agency's point of view, both with clients and within the organization.
Skills
- Client leadership
- Strategic direction
- Financial ownership
- Team oversight
- Integrated excellence
- Business development
- Forecasting
- Project tracking
- Talent development
- Commercial acumen
- Leadership
Experience Level
- 12+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000—$230,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive benefits package
About the Company
- OGILVY HEALTH: WE INSPIRE PEOPLE AND BRANDS TO IMPACT THE WORLD. Guided by this vision, 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.
