Account Director, Health PR

About Ogilvy Health

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences' health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity-operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of Ogilvy's capabilities and global talent-Ogilvy Health brings forth world-class creative solutions for its clients.

Over the past year alone, the Ogilvy network has been recognized with the following:

• Global Agency Network of the Year (Ad Age)
• Global Agency of the Year (Adweek)
• One of the "Best Places to Work" for LGBTQ+ equality (Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Index)
• Most Effective Agency Network (Effie Worldwide)
• Agency Network of the Year (Clio Awards)
• Network of the Year (One Show)
• Global Network of the Year (LIA Awards)
• Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader
• Most Awarded Agency (Influencer Marketing Awards)
• ...and Ogilvy was the first agency network to secure the top rankings on both WARC's Creative 100 and Effective 100 in consecutive years

For more information on us, visit OgilvyHealth.com, or follow Ogilvy Health on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Threads.

About the Role

Our Account Directors bring value to our clients by analyzing, solving and presenting viable integrated solutions to clients. They identify and inspire new work streams and solutions that lead to client growth by collaborating with and drawing on the expertise of the Ogilvy's vast resources and capabilities. They identify and champion great work and understand the importance of flawless delivery. They must also possess the ability to be a team leader, independently develop programs, oversee the development and delivery of high-quality work products, play a business development role and offer strategic client counsel.

What You'll Do

• Establish and maintain relationships with key health client contacts and ensure that client/agency relationships exist on multiple levels and grow over time

• Has depth and diversity of account experience that informs PR counsel

• Develop and manage projects and programs, including strategies, implementation plans, evaluation mechanisms, staffing plans, timelines and budgets

• Act with a high degree of independence; hold responsibility for overall account relationships

• Direct development of broad range of materials including strategic recommendations, client communications, press releases, speeches, articles, brochures, presentations and collateral materials

• Efficiently and effectively plan and manage large-scale events

• Develop and guide media relations strategy

• Provide leadership in growing existing accounts, identify and pursue opportunities for developing new business and participate in new business process

• Manage team to ensure work is appropriately delegated, help nurture and grow staff including conducting performance evaluation process and creating opportunities for professional development

What You'll Need

• 6-8 years of relevant healthcare communications experience including 3-5 years supervisory experience

• Understanding of the regulated healthcare marketplace and its implications for communications

• Experience working with integrated marketing teams and creating impactful PR solutions

• Able to manage the day-to-day business and client relationship on a piece of business (or several small projects) within a large client account

• Strong communication skills, particularly with verbal presentations, program development writing and attention to detail

• Digitally fluent, with an understanding of the complex, fragmented media landscape and how to bring together cohesive programs and drive results for clients

• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets
• Diplomatic, inspiring and empathetic leadership skills

How We'll Support You

Ogilvy celebrates its people. Fully. Enthusiastically. Unhesitatingly. We'll empower you with the tools you'll need to succeed. We'll give you the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. We'll support you with colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across the Ogilvy network. And we'll provide opportunities for you to do work of which you'll be proud, with people you'll be proud to call your teammates.

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