SVP, Client Service Director

ARXUS DDB Health New York

  • New York, New York
  • 5 days ago

    Highlights

    Demonstrate strong work ethic, delegates instead of dumps, provides real-time feedback and recognition, celebrates success, excellent active listening skills, makes decisions for betterment of all, maintains optimistic outlook in all situations. Annually deliver course relating to leadership, client management or business communications for the benefit of more junior colleagues as discussed and outlined with President of agency.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationNew York, New York

    Description

    Agency:

    Remedy Edge

    Job Function:

    Account Management and Growth

    Job Subfunction:

    Account Management



    Job Description:

    At Remedy Edge, we believe health can’t wait. 
    The stakes are higher. The pace is faster. And hesitation costs lives. 
    That’s why Remedy Edge exists—to bring urgency to health. 
    Urgent thinking. Urgent creativity. Urgent action. 
    We are a collective of courageous, curious, generous, and gritty people driven to solve the toughest challenges in healthcare. We push past convention, stay relentlessly a step ahead, and apply bold, omnichannel creativity to move people—from awareness to action, from delay to decision, from possibility to progress. 
    Because when health is on the line, every moment matters. 
    And every edge counts. 
    Inclusivity 
    Remedy Edge is an inclusive home for diverse voices, perspectives, and lived experiences. We believe the best ideas emerge when everyone is heard—and when the work reflects the real world it’s meant to change. By embracing difference, we sharpen our thinking, strengthen our creativity, and take on health’s hardest problems with greater clarity and humanity. 
    Flexibility 
    At Remedy Edge, we design work around people, not the other way around. Our flexible hybrid environment empowers teams to do their best work wherever it happens: in our NYC headquarters, at home, or alongside clients. With intentional meeting-free time, seasonal flexibility, and modern ways of working, we give our people the space to think boldly, move faster, and stay at their creative edge. 
    Who We Are 
    Remedy Edge is a global healthcare communications network built to make creativity, and creative technology, a force for urgent health impact. Grounded in deep insight into behavior, channels, and culture, we create work that doesn’t just inform—but activates. Work that accelerates decisions, advances care, and drives meaningful change for the brands and patients who can’t afford to wait.  
    Job Title: SVP, Client Service Director  
    Department: Account Services 
    Lead by inspiring trust through courageous in the moment conversations 

    Walk the talk and have a strategic perspective both internally and externally 

    Know that you are department agnostic and be generous to hear new ideas no matter where they come from 

    Build and facilitate a journey of learning for our teams focused on tapping into their curiosity and creating a clear career path of growth. 

    Client Management & Interaction  
    Seen as primary owner of Account relationship  

    o   Ensuring that every client has an account contact and that each client feels your presence and oversight of the account  
    o   Key contact two-three levels above day-to-day client on a monthly/bi-monthly basis  
    Solutions first leader: Act as primary agency Ambassador in managing ad hoc issues and opportunities (e.g. to deliver capabilities to new business prospect, pacify upset senior client, etc.) 

    Maintain “guru” status with clients and engaged for key strategic meetings 

    Be known and respected among client teams 

    Lead for onboarding of all new clients, regardless of level 

    Agency Development  
      Solution oriented approach that creates calm and rallies teams 

      Actively seek and close large, strategic new business opportunities; convert new business into agency revenue  

      Play active role in defining, clarifying, and evolving agency short- and long-term “Go-to-Market” strategy and suite of offerings  

      Be a developer and attracter of key agency talent and primary grower of talent from within 

    Communication Skills  
    Possess superior communication skills across the board.   
      Maintain strong, professional presence that immediately puts clients at ease and wins their confidence 

      Expert presentation skill to a few key individuals or to a large client team 

      Communicate complicated ideas in a manner everyone can understand 

      Annually deliver course relating to leadership, client management or business communications for the benefit of more junior colleagues as discussed and outlined with President of agency 

      Author periodic articles or POVs worthy of publication internally and with clients 

    Management  
           Continue to build on our adoption of the philosophy of the Service-Profit Chain, correlating highly engaged employees create rewarding environments 

           Manage multiple account teams with flawless client retention 

           Accountable for all agency teams maintaining high quality deliverables 

           Ensure teams consistently follow established processes/guidelines for executing agency offerings (eg,monthly POV’s, etc). 

           Serve as a mentor to account group taking initiative to develop trainings 

           Ensure all levels of the organization understands the client dynamics at play and is involved to ensure client love and retention.   

           Key conduit to strategic team with a mindset of always show the client more – talent, work, thinking 

    Leadership/Teamwork  
           Manage up and vertically to ensure seamless pull-through 

    o   Keep President abreast of all issues/opportunities arise to ensure all are on the page  
    o   Partner across so that all can learn from the dialogue  
    Responsible for evangelizing Agency’s evolving service offerings, processes, and best practices to all staff and clients 

    Establish agency-wide example of interdepartmental partnership and collaboration through BRAND MOVEMENTS document development.  Every team member should understand how their purpose at DDB Health plays into the “Good” we are creating via our brands 

    Demonstrate strong work ethic, delegates instead of dumps, provides real-time feedback and recognition, celebrates success, excellent active listening skills, makes decisions for betterment of all, maintains optimistic outlook in all situations 

    Works with cross agency leadership to ensure all accounts are staffed appropriately to meet client/project needs 

    Act as “Champion” for all direct reports/team members and takes full responsibility for helping advance them toward promotion 

    Navigate challenging client situations while keeping the team calm and motivated 

    Industry Knowledge/Therapeutic Expertise  
      Maintain “guru” status with clients and engaged for key strategic meetings 

      Continually demonstrate expertise in all aspects of strategy  

      Seen by clients and colleagues as experienced multiple therapeutic areas  

      Establish agency-wide example of ability to deliver solutions for clients 

    Financial Responsibility  
      Ultimate owner of groups yearly goals to Omnicom and achievement of those goals from a revenue perspective always keeping margin in mind 

      Final responsibility for year-over-year account growth in alignment with established growth targets  

      Active participant in new business planning, agency capability expansions, resourcing decisions, and financial discussions 

      Champion for all internal financial processes and for teams being vigilant about project budgets and agency fees.  

      Think: Need, Hours, Resources 

    o   Always comes with a solution  
    o   Evaluate needs for freelance resources, monitoring department utilization and budgeted hours.   
    o   Maintain overall accountability for on time and on budget delivery of work   $191,000-$257,500

    Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.


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