Associate Director, Strategy

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ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY

Wildtype is a sister agency of Remedy Edge within Omnicom Health. This position may appear under Remedy Edge for application purposes; however the role is exclusively with Wildtype.

Wildtype runs like no other. As the most Agile full-service agency in healthcare we arent beholden to ritual. Powered by diverse ideas knowledge and people our unique creative process is a force of nature removing obstacles between brand and growth in wild new ways.

YOU ARE THE DISRUPTION DRIVER Youve always understood that to be disruptive is better than to be conventional. To pursue challenges is more admirable than to be complacent. You dont settle and you wont let your team or your clients accept less than the best that their capabilities allow. And you routinely remind them that whats possible should never be underestimated.

The status quo exists to be examined and defied. You build strong relationships with your clients and help them to embrace this idea and realize the true potential of their brands. You refuse to accept this is how weve always done it and push instead for how has it never been done You establish new models and approaches that introduce unexpected solutions to brand challenges. And your leadership gives your team and your clients the confidence to reach outside the familiar.

What we are looking for:

• Contribute to a culture that grows and motivates colleagues and clients to adopt Disruption and new methodologies uncovered as central to brand efforts
• Manage and mentor junior strategists to foster engagement through learning and development that leads to career growth

• Develop meaningful and productive senior client relationships to ensure strategic recommendations exceed expectations
• Help create and facilitate agency and client ideation sessions. Must be able to employ Disruption and other facilitation session tools
• Be a methodological and analytical leader in driving client and agency research through new ways of gaining insight into our brands
• Contribute to and lead various aspects of Disruption Live by finding trending topics and monitoring macro-trends in culture

• Work with account and creative managers to create brand positioning Disruption roadmaps and creative briefs
• Facilitate efforts at generating insights from a variety of data sources to ensure development of Disruptive creative and brand ideas

• Contribute to new business pitches by managing customer insight generation which is tied to pitch product clinical data
• Interview target prospects to generate pitch content and story flow from findings
• Attend live pitch presentations and act as authority within the opportunity

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors degree and 5-7 years prior work experience preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired)
• General computer proficiency
• Prior internal team and brand strategy experience
• A foundational skill set defined by
  • Research/data focus
  • Independence
  • Patience confidence and leadership
  • Creativity and strategic agility
  • Oratory talent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to command a room
  • Sound judgment and discretion for conflict resolution.

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 Group 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.

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Omnicom Health Group is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is equally distributed and were focused on developing diverse teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join uswe look forward to getting to know you.

$120000-$130000

Omnicoms policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time and many of our agencies as well as Omnicoms corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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