VP, STRATEGIC PLANNING, HEALTHCARE
If you’re an amazing creative strategist with a passion for health and want be a part of a team who is reinventing the playbook for earned-first healthcare communications, we should talk. Weber Shandwick is looking for a VP of Strategic Planning, Healthcare to steer the strategy for multiple high-profile healthcare accounts, from a pharma company with innovative oncology treatments to first-to-market leaders in vaccines and rare disease.
About you:
You are endlessly curious about consumer mindsets and the drivers of behavior change. You love working on health and want to set new standards for what good health ideas look like. You think and write clearly, and you understand diverse media platforms and technology. You are able to frame a problem, develop succinct insights and strategies, and explain what it all means in a compelling story. You’re open-minded, battle-tested, inclusive and empathetic. You have a high level of cultural fluency, and while you’re by no means a scientist, you think science is cool.
CLIENT AND WORK
Leads integrated teams to create and implement flawless execution plans informed by strategic vision, with very limited support from senior strategic planning leadership
Responsible for all strategic planning for a limited number of clients
Leads the strategic process, from start to finish
Oversee the crafting and evaluation of primary and secondary research plans to segment audiences, and understand the cultural, societal, business and media context impacting a business to uncover business insights
Leads engagement with confidence and commitment to high quality, data-driven strategic brand recommendations, tactical plans and programs
Focuses on the strategic vision driving the detailed execution and performance evaluation
Ensures the plan is strategically sound, accurately addresses interesting insights and opportunities informed by research/ analytics findings in partnership with Global Intelligence
LEADERSHIP AND TALENT MANAGEMENT
Manages account engagements independently, with minimal guidance
Guides planning resources, assignment of strategic planning staff
Establishes interpersonal relationships within and outside of department, with focus on building inclusive culture and mentoring colleagues outside of personal relationships
Promotes the development and advancement of underrepresented groups in team through professional development trainings
Mentors, coaches and develops direct reports to deliver high performance while supporting personal and professional development goals
Actively participates in the hiring and onboarding of talent; Supports and develops processes to enhance inclusive hiring practices for team
Participate in trainings build own cultural competency and ability to lead, coach and develop diverse teams
Actively participates in office or agency DEI initiatives to attract and retain diverse talent
GROWTH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Responsible for identifying opportunities to expand client engagements in partnership with integrated teams
Responsible for net new business opportunities
BUSINESS ACUMEN
Responsible for reviewing, approving draft scopes, allocations and comparison against actuals
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
NYC Salary range: $145,000 - $180,000
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.
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