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[Remote] Senior Account Director
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. VIVO Agency is a healthcare marketing agency specializing in consumer health, health systems, medtech, and pharma. The Senior Account Director owns key client accounts, builds senior-level relationships, oversees complex engagements and financials, drives business growth, and leads cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the account. Maintain a complete picture of priorities, financials, risks, opportunities, and client relationship health, and stay three steps ahead with recommendations, not just escalations
- Be a trusted advisor. Build senior-level client relationships and become someone clients rely on for both day-to-day leadership and bigger-picture thinking
- Drive the work forward. Translate client objectives into clear direction, owners, and next steps for Creative, Strategy, Medical, and Project Management teams
- Lead high-stakes execution. Oversee complex engagements, including timelines, MLR review, and quality, with an exceptionally high bar for accuracy and polish
- Own account financials. Manage scopes, budgets, forecasts, and profitability, and protect scope while staying solutions-oriented
- Grow the business. Identify and close scope expansions and new opportunities that deliver insight-driven client value
- Lead and carry the culture. Coach your cross-functional team, improve how we work, and show what "makes us TIC" through transparency, innovation, and curiosity
Skills
- 7+ years of healthcare or pharma agency account management experience, leading client relationships within pharma, biotech, medtech, health system, or consumer health brands
- Hands-on experience with MLR or compliance review processes
- Proven track record of growing accounts through scope expansion and organic revenue growth
- Ownership of account financials, including budgeting, forecasting, burn management, and margin
- Experience mentoring and leading cross-functional teams
- Superior communication and presentation skills, with the confidence to lead senior client conversations, plus the urgency and accountability to follow through consistently n a fast-moving, fully remote environment
- Experience with a specific therapeutic area or HCP and patient marketing
- Experience with project management and review platforms such as Mavenlink/Kantata or Ziflow
- Experience in an independent or mid-sized agency
Benefits
- 100% remote work arrangement
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-paid disability and life insurance
- 401(k) with match up to 6%
- Annual wellness stipend
- Professional development allowance
- Recognition, rewards, prizes, and amazing swag
- 11 holidays plus Winter Break
- Annual in-person retreat
- 3+ weeks of total paid time off in Year 1
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