What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director, Research position at Digitas Health?
Company Description
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
Overview
Digitas Health seeks a dynamic, strategic individual for a research leadership role within the Insights team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate creative thinking, the ability to understand client business needs and propose research-based solutions to address those needs. Associate Directors will be expected to ensure excellent delivery on a project-by-project basis and also work to grow Digitas Health’s business by cultivating client relationships while helping innovate.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Research
Education/Experience
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 USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.
Compensation Range: $105,165 - $151,095 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. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, 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 5/15/2025.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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
Overview
Digitas Health seeks a dynamic, strategic individual for a research leadership role within the Insights team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate creative thinking, the ability to understand client business needs and propose research-based solutions to address those needs. Associate Directors will be expected to ensure excellent delivery on a project-by-project basis and also work to grow Digitas Health’s business by cultivating client relationships while helping innovate.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Research
- Lead direct report researchers
- Engage and inspire junior team members
- Provide mentoring and coaching to career goals/objectives and providing feedback on performance
- Work to provide a supportive, productive environment for all Digitas Health team members
- Conduct research on dialogue data sets as part of project teams
- Use professional experience and expertise to identify strategic client needs
- Contribute to the development of new products, services and solutions
- Bring a unique perspective to help the Digitas Health team evolve our offerings and our business
- Independently manage a portfolio of projects and client engagements
- Manage team resources to ensure successful project delivery and team satisfaction
- Proactively identify potential project issues and manage them autonomously
- Advocate for clients and ensure their needs are being met
- Build strong relationships with clients at key accounts
- Support business development efforts to grow our business
- Work with other groups throughout Digitas Health in a positive way to accomplish our client and internal goals
- Foster relationships with other PH team members and agencies to grow our busines
Education/Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree Required, Master’s Preferred
- 4-5 years applied research experience
- Individuals with a background in the pharmaceutical industry, applied social science, sociolinguistics, or AI / prompt engineering preferred
- Demonstrated successful experience in managing teams and client engagements
- Strong analytical, problem solving skills and strong business acumen
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Strong focus on providing customers with superior support and service
- Ability to successfully work in matrixed environment
- Excellent persuasion and presentation skills and ability to create impactful communications in Word and presentations in PowerPoint
- Solid organizational and planning/prioritizing skills, strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Flexibility, ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and focus on high priority opportunities
- Drive for results and continuous improvement
- Strong project management skills
- Solid judgement/decision making skills
- Demonstrated leadership abilities and sound business ethics
- Ability to lead and mentor a team and develop staff members
- Ability to display high-levels of initiative, effort and commitment successfully complete projects and assignments
- Must be self-motivated and disciplined
- Ability to work independently and as a team member
- Must be able to deal with people at all levels inside and outside of the company
- Strong working knowledge of MS office modules (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
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 USMSTACompliance@publicis.com.
Compensation Range: $105,165 - $151,095 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. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, 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 5/15/2025.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Salary : $105,165 - $151,095
