Executive Vice President, Client Lead

Job description

Company description

PHM is the leading health media agency in the US, built for the modern healthcare experience. Here, industry depth meets media scale, where data becomes direction, where creativity and storytelling bring truth to life, and where orchestration replaces fragmentation.

Dedicated to making brands discovered, PHM redefines what media can do through data, content, and creativity. Because in modern healthcare, the brands that are found are the ones that lead. And when brands lead, advantage follows. Go deeper. Be found.

Overview

The EVP, Group Client Lead provides leadership across multiple large and small clients at the executive level. This person reports into the Management Team, and is ultimately accountable for their assigned client relationships, organic growth, agency growth,and the excellence of cross-functional teams within all assigned accounts.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Knowledge

Deep Pharma media experience across a diverse set of conditions, disease states, and audiences (DTC, HCP, Payer, etc.)

Perspective beyond Pharma to bring best practices across audiences and channels (e.g. CPG, retail)

Understands the total marketing process and the strategic role of media

Ability to predict industry trends and deliver significant insight to client's business

Provides written and verbal thought leadership in the form of POV’s, articles, interviews, etc. in the trades or at conferences

Managing and Leading Others

Builds trust, models inclusion, and shows respect for all employees

Practices active listening to resolve issues and identify opportunities

Exerts lateral influence to manage approximately 80 cross-functional employees

Provides clear communication on business initiatives and client requests

Participates in formal development process, including performance management, goal-setting, mid- and yearly reviews, and coaching

Nurtures and develops senior-level talent on assigned accounts

Ensures teams are properly trained on tools and processes

Participates in PHM’s recruitment and interviewing efforts

Organic Growth and New Business

Sets organic growth goals for each account

Generates a roadmap for organic growth on each client

Refers new clients to PHM

Leads pitch teams, task forces, etc.

Develops, recommends and drives new agency initiatives

Resources appropriate PHM, Publicis Health and Publicis Groupe products and offerings to drive growth

Seeks out opportunities to upsell and cross-sell to existing clients

Manages account resources and operations

Assists on the scoping process

Client Service

Responsible for the top-to-top relationship with senior-level clients, agency partners, Groupe leadership, and vendor executives

Conveys passion for clients and their businesses

Has an onsite presence with clients

Works with senior clients to shape their marketing priorities

Takes initiative in developing new client relationships

Models outstanding client service for team

Drives professional, impactful standards within team for all written and verbal contact with clients; 'gold-standard' writer and presenter

Serves as point of escalation for client concerns

Qualifications

20+ years management experience

Deep cross-channel media knowledge and experience

Pharmaceutical industry required

Additional information

Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we’re better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent.

Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off.

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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range: USD $0.00 - USD $0.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/30/2026.

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