Vice President Director, Account Planning (Temp to Perm)

Company DescriptionDigitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers.  With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world’s largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world’s third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitashealthOverviewThe Digitas Health Account Planning team uncovers breakthrough customer insights and helps our teams to turn them into big creative marketing ideas. Planning is part of the creative organization (and tightly integrated with creative) and reports to the SVP/Head of Planning.This a temp to perm role. This is a freelance (hourly rate) position.The ideal Vice President/ Director, Account Planning candidate has at least 8 years' experience developing and applying breakthrough customer insight in a marketing, creative agency or professional services firm, as well as exceptional thinking, communication and influence skills, leadership, and energy. Most importantly, we seek candidates with enthusiasm for pushing the frontier of how marketing can evolve to meet the needs of an ever more powerful consumer.ResponsibilitiesThe VP/ Director is the customer insight “lead” for designated Digitas Health clients, with 3 primary responsibilities:

Leveraging customer insight to help the team come up with great creative marketing ideas

Identifying high impact opportunities for developing breakthrough customer insight

Creating innovative approaches for coming up with customer insight

Additional responsibilities for this position include:

Proactively determining where and how in-depth insight about the consumer’s attitude and behavior can help make our clients’ marketing more successful and where the opportunities are

Identifying key customer insights from existing client/Digitas Health data and translating them into relevant marketing program implications

Applying innovative research and “listening” methodologies to create relevant, breakthrough customer insights

Partnering with our cutting-edge primary researchers, internal analysis group and client data/research organizations to maximize their work’s customer insight and marketing program application value

Optimizing the impact of customer insight in the creative/program development process by inspiring and partnering with creatives on your team

Expertly applying the Digitas Health Branding approach to marketing program development, and inspiring your teams to embrace a “pull” approach to marketing

Leading team brainstorms that efficiently produce breakthrough insight and maximize team contributions

Building productive collaboration and enabling successful teamwork

Creating demand for account planning’s contributions by demonstrating its impact

Managing 2 mid-level planners

Qualifications

At least 8 years’ experience working in marketing and/or strategic services organizations – e.g., general advertising agency account planning group; management consulting firm; brand strategy firm; large DM firm strategic planning/account planning group

Qualitative research expertise and experience applying innovative qualitative research techniques

Familiarity with interpreting and applying quantitative research

Undergraduate degree in a discipline like history, American studies, political science, anthropology/sociology, journalism, or psychology

Graduate degree is also a plus (e.g., MBA, Masters)

Familiar with segmentation, analytics and media research tools (e.g., MRI) a plus

Exceptional customer insight skills

Intuitive ability to understand what makes consumers “tick”

Ability to discern the customer insight and “human truth” from mounds of data

A passion and empathy for the consumer’s perspective

Avid follower of how marketing is evolving to meet the needs of the ever more powerful consumer; you can tell the difference between YouTube and an inner tube

Ability to challenge the team to uncover “what’s in it for the customer”

Passionate about applying cutting edge qualitative methodology to the development of insight

Experience applying insight to marketing program development

A knack for helping creative teams understand an insight and translate it into creative magic

Passion for working with creative people

Exceptional writing, communication and influence skills

An inspirational, compelling personality and way of working

you have the ability to quickly gain the trust of clients and internal team members at all levels

Excellent teamwork and leadership skills

A leader and a team builder

Web experience (and passion!) is highly relevant

Demonstrated ability to build demand for account planning

Experience successfully bringing account planning to clients and teams who haven't used it before

Ambition, accountability, and drive

You like to do things in a new way, you like convincing people of your point of view, you are driven to succeed

Additional InformationOur 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.If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. No vendor/agency solicitation please.