Vice President Director, Account Planning - job 2 of 5

Digitas 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/digitas_health

The 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.

The Vice President/Director, Account Planning is the customer insight "lead" for designated Digitas Health clients, with three 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

• 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 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 (e.g., MBA, Masters)
• Familiar with segmentation, analytics and media research tools (e.g., MRI)
• 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

Our 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 [email protected].

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. #LI-Hybrid

Compensation Range: $121,000 - $204,500 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 11/21/2024.