VP, Strategic Planning Director (Pharma)
- Location
- Chicago, IL
- Listed
- Yesterday
About the role
- Agency: BBDO
- Job Function: Strategy and Planning
- Job Subfunction: Account Planning and Brand Planning
About the role
At BBDO Chicago, the VP, Strategic Planning Director is not afraid to challenge and inspire their team to bring something new to the forefront. This person will use expertise, experience, research and analytics to formulate critical insights that over deliver for our clients.
Responsibilities
- Serve as lead team member on the businesses they are directly responsible for, ultimately assuring the quality of the strategic and creative products the team produces
- Manage the growth and development of their team by helping to identify innovative ideas, approaches and final work product
- Creating original, imaginative and expressive strategies to focus and inspire the creative and account teams
- Building exceptional client relationships by helping to identify their strategic brand challenges, providing input on competitive threats and evolving consumer behaviors
- Providing thought-leadership for the discipline
- Pioneer and utilize new research methods
- Contribute to new business pitches
- Collaborate closely with creative, account, and analytics teams to ensure ideas & experiences are insight-driven, feasible, and inspiring
- Facilitate internal brainstorms and client workshops focused on engagement, journeys, and experience optimization
- Partner with clients & analytics partners in research initiatives, using findings to inform ideas
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience; must have agency experience
- Bachelor's degree and/or relevant experience required
- Experience connecting insight to action-turning complexity into clear strategic direction
- Strong storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to bring creative to life
- Comfortable collaborating across disciplines and leading with influence rather than authority
- Confident communicator with presence, clarity, and the ability to build trust with clients and teams
- Interest in Pharma or Health & Wellness brands
- 125,000 - 175,000
- To the extent permissible by local law, Omnicom's policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager.
- Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent.
- We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we're focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do.
- We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together.
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From Interpublic's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 13, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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