Senior Engagement Strategist/Associate Director (Pharma agency required)

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity,  SenseMaking allows us to  transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

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The Associate Director/Sr. Engagement Strategist is responsible for developing and managing strategic deliverables for clients. This role involves overseeing and executing the day-to-day engagement needs of the business, requiring both strategic and executional expertise. 

• Support engagement lead in the creation of customer engagement strategies that align with the client’s business objectives and growth targets
• Develop omni-channel engagement plans, personas, journey maps, ecosystems ad activation brief
• Experience developing content and tactical strategies for various omin-channels such as website, display, social and CRM and point of care.
• Clearly communicate and present ideas, POVs, and strategies to internal teams, clients, and prospective clients
• Collaborate and co-create with various internal departments such as brand planning, media, account and creative to ensure alignment across all touchpoints, driving both short-term and long-term engagement initiatives
• Leverage customer data and insights to design engagement strategies that enhance customer experience.
• Present engagement results to executive leadership to demonstrate the impact of strategies.
• Use data insights to optimize and refine engagement efforts and recommend new tactics to improve results.
• Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies related to customer engagement.
• Embrace a culture of collaboration and innovation within the team, encouraging continuous improvement in engagement strategies

• Must have Patient/DTC experience
• Experience as a lead Engagement Strategist
• 8+ years strategic planning or marketing experience in a healthcare/pharma advertising agency environment
• Relevant category and launch experience
• Experience utilizing strategic tools for analysis
• Superb and persuasive communications skills, both written and verbal
• Adept at storytelling
• Bachelor's degree

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits. 

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