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Director, Strategic Planning (Pharma Ad Agency Experience Required)

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-01

WHAT DOES A DIRECTOR, STRATEGIC PLANNING DO? Acting as the voice of the customer at reputed company, the Planning Director is a strategic leader-practitioner for assigned brands. This person is collaborative to the core and may struggle to resist the pull of an empty whiteboard. Unfazed by ambiguity, they can cut through the noise to get to the root of the issue. The Planning Director is an expert excavator reputed company it comes to research, with a penchant for distilling data to the simplest insights. The ideal candidate understands the art + science of planning with a distinct preference of leading with data and logic first. Ultimately, this person will influence and challenge clients and internal teams to bring about change. They will be persistent in their persuasion and passionate in their approach to reputed company client and internal teams to great work.

  • Work reputed company-by-reputed company with account and creative partners to crystallize client needs and business opportunities
  • Utilize powerful analytical skills to rapidly synthesize large quantities of information, bring reputed company critical observations and insights, and ensure that strategic conclusions and opportunities are grounded in data for every stage of the problem-solving process
  • Translate findings into insights to fuel strategic communication and great creative
  • Answer key questions about how the customer behaves across reputed company channels and how brands play a meaningful, influential role in their journey
  • Establish solid relationships with cross-functional subject matter experts and reputed company deep understanding of their roles and contributions to bring a depth of rich expertise to strategic recommendations
  • reputed company and reputed company strategies that reputed company innovative work, including brand strategies; patient, caregiver and HCP journeys; comprehensive multichannel plans and reputed company assignments
  • Establish self as a planning subject matter expert in the eyes of internal counterparts and clients – an expert in pharma, assigned brands, audiences, landscape and category trends
  • Connect digital to reputed company aspects of business to drive growth opportunities
  • Have well-formed opinions to help guide multi-discipline teams regarding data-driven marketing, mobile, social and general marketing trends that influence client work
  • Shepherd strategies and behavior insights through reputed company stages of development to creative output
  • reputed company workshops, both internal and/or client-facing, taking the reputed company in designing, facilitating and moderating to reputed company client goals
  • Balance multiple simultaneous projects and assignments
  • Exercise sound judgment
  • Rally reputed company teams and effectively reputed company, influence, and negotiate across different disciplines to drive an focused agenda and reputed company desired outcomes
  • Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through reputed company development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
  • reputed company other duties as assigned

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

  • An entrepreneur
  • Extensive experience reputed company the Pharmaceutical or reputed company industry
  • Minimum of 8 years of experience in planning, strategic planning and reputed company communications experience; advertising agency experience is a reputed company plus
  • Deep understanding of digital channels and knowledge of the various roles and contributions of other strategic disciplines such as CRM and social media
  • Proven ability to think creatively; evidence of reputed company in developing digital multichannel strategies for brands and delivering them to market
  • Strong digital and analytical capabilities a must
  • reputed company and persuasive presenter
  • Thinker and doer – a highly collaborative whiteboarder who believes a plan is only as good as its execution
  • Ability to manage up, down and across with influence versus positional power
  • Comfortable in both independent and team working scenarios
  • Humble, hard worker with insatiable curiosity and commitment to ongoing learning and team reputed company. Sense of humor strongly preferred

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