Job Order: 5485
Staff Representative: Tim Jadwin
Position: Vice President, Account Supervisor
Location: New Jersey
Company Summary:
Our client is a full-service healthcare advertising and medical education company. They offer 3 brand-building disciplines—marketing, creative, and medical—with 1 united approach. Their mission is simple: to provide Great ideas, brilliantly executed.
Description:
Position Summary:
- Oversee all agency activities on assigned product or client.
Responsibilities of Position
- Manage Senior Account Executive or Account Supervisor, when applicable
- Work with supervisor on the development of appropriate training for direct reports
- Function as internal team leader making sure that all members of the team work together smoothly and effectively
- Lead the development of innovative Communications Plans
- Manage marketing, financial and interpersonal aspects of assigned accounts
- Interface with the Client at all levels, especially Group Brand Leader and Product Director level
- Keep supervisor aware of all internal and Client issues
- Monitor all new product and new business opportunities at the Client, assess how the agency can capitalize on them and provide updates to supervisor with recommendations
- Provide strategic and marketing leadership to direct reports, clients and team
- Continuously monitor the marketplace and provide updates and recommendations to the Client and Agency on brand issues
- Proactively provide client with points of view and recommendations on business building, market research and competitive activities
- Become the “eyes and ears” of the therapeutic area assigned.
- Provide strategic and marketing guidance to client and agency team
- Develop client relationships that the agency can rely on
Key Success Factors
- Ability to lead agency team
- Ability to articulate strategic marketing concepts
- Ability to develop key client relationships and internal relationships
- Ability to hire and train direct reports
- Adherence to agency unifying principles
- Complete understanding of assigned therapeutic area
- Appropriate utilization of agency resources
- Ability to oversee all aspects of projects on assigned account
Attributes/Skills Required/Sought
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Organization, follow up, attention to detail
- Strong leadership skills
- Excellent marketing skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Initiative
- Ability to problem-solve
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 2 years pharmaceutical sales
- Product management, marketing research or sales training experience preferred
- 5-7 years agency experience
- 2 years management experience
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