Associate Strategy Director (Oncology), London

Associate Strategy Director (Oncology)101 Wood Lane, London, W12 7FWCompany Description

Digitas Health London is the People-Powered Health agency: we exist to improve the experience of healthcare through connected engagement. We do this by relentlessly championing the needs of real people, designing for the behaviours we want to change and helping healthcare evolve to meet the needs of the future.

We are a generous, idealistic, straight-talking collection of creatives, strategists, analysts, social media experts, PMs, and client service leads. We work together to help people-centric health brands deliver new business value through new customer experiences. Whether delivering creative campaigns, connected content programmes, mobile apps, digital services, or social communities, we use digital and emerging technologies to help healthcare brands build loyalty, break habits, connect care ecosystems, and disrupt traditional markets.

As part of Publicis Health, our small-but-mighty team works to bring applied innovation to a range of global, EMEA and UK clients, working in collaboration with other DH offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco and other sister agencies in London, Windsor and around the world. Learn more about DH at www.digitashealth.com.

Job Description

As an Associate Strategy Director, you will be in a client-dedicated role within a team focused on supporting our clients marketing transformation and driving commercial impact. You will be a senior contributor within the Commercial and Brand strategy community, and you will also be part of vibrant and ambitious strategic communities within Digitas Health and the whole Publicis Health family.

This is a high-impact, exciting role suited to a confident modern marketer, motivated by working across silos, and able to help clients focus on and solve key business questions in a matrixed, data-fueled environment.

Core responsibilities:

• Act as a consultant and guide to the client brand teams, confidently challenging their business and activation plans to help drive results
• Guide and develop commercial, brand and marketing strategies for assigned brands, as well as communications and POE strategies
• Be an oncology expert, with a view on changes within oncology and helping clients find new opportunities for growth
• Provide analysis of large quantities of information and organize that information into easy to understand insights and evidence
• Develop creative briefs to inform creative solutioning and ideation, and working with agency colleagues to create exciting ideas
• Define measurement strategies and KPIs for clients including test-and-learn/optimisation recommendations
• Structure and lead workshops with cross functional teams, creating project plans with clear deliverables and outputs
• Provide a POV on tools, processes and frameworks that drive consistency in delivering growth plans across multiple markets
• Work both regionally across the assigned market clusters, and locally within the cluster.
• Understand and identify high-growth opportunities in market, and act as strategic partner to power local and cross-market advantage
• Guide and oversee the output of other strategists working on assigned brands

Qualifications

We are looking for a commercially-minded strategist. The ideal candidate will have a mix of commercial, brand and CX strategy experience with pharmaceutical clients, and understanding of category dynamics within Oncology.

You should have:

• Proven Pharma experience at both the consumer and HCP level
• Strong oncology experience, with a track record of success and making positive impact for clients
• Preferably you will have worked in a matrix organisation across network agencies, helping remote-based clients and worked across regional-to-local tiers
• Extensive related strategy and/or planning experience, covering commercial, brand and customer experience

The ideal candidate will be entrepreneurial, comfortable working with ambiguity and in grey areas, and enjoys being at the intersection of media, data, technology, and creativity. You work well in a team but also enjoy individual responsibility. You are looking to create a strong, unique impression within client and agency teams.

Additional Information

Digitas Health has fantastic benefits on offer to all of our employees. In addition to the classics, Pension, Life Assurance, Private Medical and Income Protection Plans we also offer;

• WORK YOUR WORLD opportunity to work anywhere in the world, where there is a Publicis office, for up to 6 weeks a year.
• “YOU” DAYS – flexibility to take a day off for your well-being and self-care without prior notice and additional paid leave for volunteering and charity work of your choice.
• HELP@HAND BENEFITS 24/7 helpline to support you on a personal and professional level. Access to remote GPs, mental health support and CBT. Wellbeing content and lifestyle coaching.
• FAMILY FRIENDLY POLICIES We provide 26 weeks of full pay for the following family milestones: Maternity. Adoption, Surrogacy and Shared Parental Leave.
• FLEXIBLE WORKING & BANK HOLIDAY SWAP You can switch a religious Bank Holiday (either Good Friday or Easter Monday) for another day to celebrate a religious, spiritual, faith or belief-based day of your choosing.
• GREAT LOCAL DISCOUNTS This includes membership discounts with Soho Friends, local restaurants and retailers in Westfield White City and Television Centre.

Full details of our benefits will be shared when you join us!

Publicis Groupe operates a hybrid working pattern with employees being office-based on Mondays and two other days during the working week.

We are supportive of all candidates and are committed to providing a fair assessment process. If you have any circumstances (such as neurodiversity, physical or mental impairments or a medical condition) that may affect your assessment, please inform your Talent Acquisition Partner. We will discuss possible adjustments to ensure fairness. Rest assured, disclosing this information will not impact your treatment in our process.

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Location: UK, GB

Posted Date: 11/22/2024