Senior Director, Client Media Solutions

What You'll Do Strategic Leadership - Lead media strategy and integrated planning across a portfolio of healthcare clients, ensuring plans align with business objectives and audience needs. - Serve as the senior strategic lead for media planning engagements, guiding annual planning, launch strategies, investment allocation, and measurement frameworks. - Translate complex market dynamics, audience insights, competitive intelligence, and performance data into actionable strategic recommendations. - Drive audience-first omnichannel planning approaches that connect HCP, patient, caregiver, and consumer engagement opportunities. - Champion innovation and identify emerging media opportunities, technologies, and measurement solutions that create competitive advantage for clients.

Manage and mentor junior team members, providing oversight, feedback, and workload direction - Navigate complex stakeholder environments with professionalism, sound judgment, and strong collaboration skills Client Leadership - Serve as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, leading strategic discussions and influencing media investment decisions. - Present recommendations, performance insights, and future planning opportunities to executive-level client audiences. - Build long-term client relationships through strategic consultation, proactive problem solving, and consistent delivery excellence. - Partner with account leadership to identify growth opportunities across existing client relationships.

Planning Excellence & Measurement - Establish planning standards, best practices, and quality control processes across assigned client teams. - Guide budget allocation, channel strategy, audience prioritization, and KPI development to maximize business impact. - Partner with Analytics teams to develop measurement frameworks that connect media performance to business outcomes. - Foster a test-and-learn culture focused on continuous optimization and media effectiveness.

Leadership & Team Development - Lead, mentor, and develop Directors, Associate Directors, and Managers across the planning organization. - Provide strategic oversight and planning guidance across multiple client teams. - Support talent development, succession planning, and media capability growth. - Contribute to agency thought leadership, training initiatives, and planning best practices.

Business Growth - Support new business efforts through strategic media leadership, pitch participation, and development of differentiated media approaches. - Contribute to Real Chemistry's media vision by advancing planning methodologies, audience strategies, and measurement capabilities.

What You'll Bring - 10+ years of media strategy, planning, and investment experience, with significant healthcare, pharmaceutical, biotech, or highly regulated industry experience preferred. - 5+ years of progressive leadership experience managing teams and developing talent. - Deep expertise in omnichannel media strategy, audience planning, and integrated communications planning. - Strong understanding of healthcare media ecosystems across HCP, patient, caregiver, and consumer audiences. - Demonstrated ability to develop and lead complex, multi-channel media strategies tied to measurable business outcomes. - Experience building measurement frameworks and translating performance insights into strategic recommendations. - Proven success in influencing senior stakeholders and presenting to executive-level clients. - Strong understanding of audience segmentation, media research, attribution, marketing effectiveness, and emerging media technologies. - Ability to navigate ambiguity, influence cross-functional teams, and drive alignment within complex matrixed organizations. - Experience contributing to agency growth initiatives, thought leadership, and new business efforts preferred.

This Role May Be a Good Fit If You Are - A strategic thinker with a strong data-driven mindset - A proactive and solutions-oriented client leader - Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment - A collaborative team player who leads with accountability and clarity - Adaptable and energized by change - Motivated by Real Chemistry's values: Best Together, Impact-Obsessed, Excellence Expected, Evolve Always, and Accountability with an "I" Pay Range: $140,000 - $165,000 This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting.

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