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Senior Account Executive

New York, New York

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 

The Senior Account Executive (SAE) is a confident and experienced member of the account management team, ready to implement and lead execution. The SAE serves as a key point of contact for clients and internal teams, managing projects, timelines, and budgets to ensure successful campaign execution and client expectations and satisfaction. The SAE is also responsible for training and mentoring junior team members. 

What You’ll Do 

Client Management & Communication: 

  • Leads daily client communications, serving as a process and project steward. 
  • Develops and grows meaningful day-to-day client relationships. 
  • Plans, coordinates, and directs advertising campaigns for agency clients. 
  • Identifies and addresses changes in the client direction and environment that impacts projects the Agency is working on. See the interconnectedness of our work.  
  • Anticipates client needs (short-term/long-term) and proactively addresses issues. 
  • Serves as the primary team interface with day to day clients and client internal stakeholders. 
  • Leads client status calls and is accountable for client status reports and meeting recaps.  

Project Management & Execution: 

  • Manages day-to-day business by ensuring that work is done on time and on budget. 
  • Oversees MLR submissions with internal and external MLR team and is able to organize and summarize MLR feedback. 
  • Develops project briefs with minimal supervision. 
  • Reviews all client estimates of new and existing SOW projects. 
  • Identifies and addresses changes in the client marketing environment, submits proposals including competitive review and yearly tactical plan. 
  • Responsible for the strategic development and implementation of integrated marketing programs. 
  • Ensures that all professional activities are in line with the agreed-upon strategic direction. 
  • Reviews creative development to ensure it adheres to the highest quality standards and communicates against strategy and objective across all communication channels 

Financial Management: 

  • Manages day-to-day business by ensuring that work is done on time and on budget. 
  • Reviews all client estimates of new and existing SOW projects. 
  • Sound financial skills – has prepared budgets and statement / scope of work plans and understands where projects fit within the annual plan/SOW. 

Team Leadership & Mentorship: 

  • Trains a junior direct report. 
  • Distributes projects and reviews their progress continually to ensure professional growth is attained 

Strategic Thinking & Brand Knowledge: 

  • Understands the client's aspect of the business. 
  • Anticipates client need (short term / long term) and proactively addresses issues. 
  • Strategy liaison with client on brand and business issues working in partnership with the agency strategic planner 
  • Identifies and addresses changes in marketing environment, bring POV and ideas including competitive review and yearly tactical plan. 

What You’ll Need 

  • 2+ years of experience in an advertising agency environment. 
  • 3-4 years in Pharmaceutical Advertising and/or Marketing experience, HCP experience 
  • Analytical skills needed to identify problems and solutions. 
  • Excellent communication and written skills, both internal and external. 
  • All communication is succinct, and next steps are clear. 
  • Ability to manage time effectively and multi-task. 
  • High attention to detail and can set priorities with ease. 
  • Begin to master empathy internally and externally. 
  • Great attitude overall, no matter the situation. 
  • Experienced client services professional who can lead a cross functional team or inter-agency team 
  • Launch experience 
  • Excellent communicator with especially strong writing skills and experience presenting strategic and tactical plans to senior management 
  • Confident and organized individual who is able to apply their experience in order to provide insights and recommendations to clients 
  • Ability to work in team environment fostering ideas through integration and inclusion 

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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The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package, click here for more details.

Pay Range

$45,000 - $90,000 USD

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression. 

We believe in building powerful teams with purpose – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality. Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve.  This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.

Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.

If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at accommodations@ogilvy.com. Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.

 

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