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Director, Strategic Planning

$130k to $180k

Full-timePosted Oct 8, 2026

Job description

Agency: Olixir Job Function: Strategy and Planning Job Subfunction: Strategy Job Description: About the Job As Director, Strategic Planning, you'll lead strategic planning initiatives, leveraging market research, client consulting, and creative brief writing expertise to drive business results and deliver exceptional client service.

You'll utilize advanced storytelling skills to lead internal and client meetings, and supervise and mentor team members to foster growth and development. By developing innovative solutions and upholding our values, you'll shape the future of our strategic planning practice and deliver exceptional results for our clients A Day in the LIfe Execute strategic planning fundamentals for assigned brands, leveraging disease state, customer and science expertise.

Collaborate across agency departments to integrate insights and strategy. Lead brand strategy deliverables, including positioning, creative briefs and message strategy. Drive market research, insight mining and strategic planning for new business opportunities. Supervise and mentor strategic planning teams, fostering career development.

Facilitate client workshops, brainstorming sessions and strategic leadership. Ensure talent management, hiring, staffing and performance management for direct team.

What you will need

Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications or related field. 7+ years of agency experience in brand strategy or market research, with 5+ years in pharmaceutical/health. Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Teams, research tools (SERMO, Datamonitor) and social media platforms. Excellent communication, strategic thinking and analytical skills.

Ability to leverage AI platforms for strategic deliverables and manage multiple projects. Strong understanding of agency offerings, pharma marketing trends and promotional strategies. Leadership experience within client-facing, supervisory and new business roles.

$130,000 - $180,000 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. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

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. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you.

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