Executive Vice President, Analytics

EVP, Analytics & Intelligence Health Practice Lead, Weber Shandwick NA.  

Job Description: 

The NA head of analytics and intelligence strategy for the Health sector will serve as the region’s most senior Analytics leader supporting the Health practice — providing strategic counsel to clients, building new, bespoke offerings, developing insights for new business pitches, and helping build our reputation as the leading Health communications business in North America.   

The ideal candidate for this position will have prior experience selling and marketing scaled custom analytics and research solutions to sophisticated communications and C-Suite clients. They will be curious, organized, methodical, pragmatic, and proactive. They will have deep functional expertise in research, data and analytics combined with a passion for translating and connecting these insights into solutions. 

They will play a leading role in recruiting new talent as well as training and skills building. They will build relationships with key stakeholders as well as senior client leaders - to proactively identify new business opportunities, conduct thought leadership and use research to open new doors for growth. Very specifically, this individual will immediately take analytics leadership of a top-tier pharmaceutical account – ensuring scoped work is delivered flawlessly, organic opportunities are surfaced and brought to life, and both client and inter-agency relationships are forged. 

Requirements  

• 15+ years of related professional experience within an agency, consulting or corporate setting (15+ research experience; 10+ analytics experience) 

• Proven ability to counsel Fortune 100 clients 

• Talent development experience and skill in building, leading, coaching, and motivating research and analytics teams  

• Ability to derive relevant insights from diverse sources of data, both qualitative and quantitative, including published sources, syndicated data, and proprietary data, and then translating those insights into specific media strategies and recommendations  

• Health sector experience, ideally designing and delivering solutions for payor, provider, pharma and/or major health systems in the US. 

• Ability to design research, analyses, and test plans to explore hypotheses such as optimizing communications regarding creative and channel mix 

• Passion for innovation and technology 

• Behavioral Science experience is a plus 

Skills 

• Experience using media/marketing intelligence, social listening or other research tools such as: Talkwalker, Brandwatch, GlobalWebIndex, NewsWhip, Meltwater, Cision, Quid, Affinio, Simmons/MRI and/or Comscore 

• Experience with data visualization tools and approaches (e.g., Tableau, Datorama, Google Data Studio) for reporting and dashboards  

• Experience directly conducting primary research (either qualitative or quantitative) end-to-end (i.e., designing, fielding, analyzing and reporting out data) 

• Experience turning raw, unstructured data into insights, stories, and strategies 

• Experience pitching new business and leading or supporting complex RFP submissions 

• Hands-on experience in managing data and data mining  

• Ability to develop frameworks for steering complex insight/analytics projects 

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money - $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $250,000 - $300,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.