SVP, Strategy

About Avalere Health

Established in 2001, Avalere Health is a purposefully built commercialization partner for the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.

Our 1,500+ experts combine their knowledge and expertise across our core disciplines — Consulting; Medical; Policy; Value, Evidence, and Access; Marketing; and Digital Experience Technology — to create the connections that make better health happen.

Avalere Health partners with its clients to navigate the complex and rapidly changing healthcare ecosystem. Together, our experts help clients connect patients with life-changing therapies, realizing the potential of strategies and solutions to accelerate innovation that improves lives.

We live and breathe our five values in everything we do: We are authentic. We act with integrity. We value difference. We play for the team. We enjoy the journey. At Avalere Health, we imagine a healthier world and create the connections to make it happen. 

We take pride in being part of the Disability Confident Scheme. This helps make sure you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long term health condition, or are neurodiverse. If you'd like to apply and need adjustments made, you can let us know in your application.

As SVP, Strategy, you are responsible for ensuring the quality of strategic deliverables for a substantial set of accounts. You will be building, developing, and leading a team of strategists who are focused on deriving targeted, transformative insights that fuel brand strategies, tactical initiatives, and behavior-changing creative campaigns. This is a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves, see-the-big-picture, and understand-the-details kind of job.

You will help conceive and refine processes that enhance collaboration among strategy, scientific, creative, and account teams, to produce strategic recommendations that lead to significant brand results. As an inspirational leader, you will consistently strive to bring out the best from your team. 

What you'll do

• Consult on the analysis of qualitative and quantitative research relating to audience (HCP, patient, and caregiver), brand, culture, and media channels to derive meaningful insights
• Oversee the development of strategy maps, brand maps, and brand ladders, the articulation of insights and promises, and the development of personas, as well as customer journeys and ecosystems
• Advise Strategists, Account leads, Scientific Directors and Creative Directors to create tight, inspiring creative briefs and translate brand insights into ideas
• Monitor cultural and social trends, their impact on target attitudes, behavior and perceptions, using a variety of market and research data
• Clearly communicate and present ideas, POVs, and strategies to internal teams, clients, and prospective clients
• Inform the development of and facilitate workshops using strategic tools and frameworks
• Mentor, coach, and counsel strategy team members to facilitate their growth and development

About you

• Bachelor's degree in related field (eg. Marketing, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Statistics); Master's degree ideal
• 12+ years strategic planning or marketing experience in a healthcare/pharma advertising agency environment
• Relevant category and launch experience
• Experience with HCP and patient marketing, including Pharma brand launch
• Experience utilizing strategic tools for analysis
• Experience building and facilitating client workshops
• Proven track record building and leading teams
• Superb and persuasive communications skills, both written and verbal
• Adept at storytelling

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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