Strategic Planning Supervisor

The Strategic Planning Supervisor is an experienced planner who conducts and helps manage planning work. They are expected to evolve from a supportive role to a more autonomous role on core brand strategy deliverables and workshop execution. They are required to possess strong research skills, including design, discussion guide development, moderating, and reporting that drives actionable insights and output. Additionally, they are expected to have the ability to translate understanding of disease, market, and competition into strategic recommendations for straightforward brand challenges. The Strategic Planning Supervisor will have the opportunity to manage junior team members and provide strategic guidance to clients.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Brand Planning

Full understanding and execution of strategic discipline, agency processes and pharma compliance requirements.

Gathering of relevant customer dynamics, understand disease state and how to apply this to a brand strategy.

Advances insight distillation, strategy generation and storytelling skills.

Client Management

Conducts and facilitates client workshops.

Builds and maintains positive client relationships.

Effective ability to address internal and client questions on the agency's POV and recommendations.

Cross Functional Collaboration

Act as internal brand team(s) day-to-day point of contact with less supervision and fosters positive team dynamic.

Effective ability to consume and distill information into clear, concise summaries of key takeaways and a strong point

of view.

Talent Management

Manage and mentor junior level staff and delegate incoming tasks and assignments as appropriate.

JOB DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

• Applies strong foundational understanding of the strategic planning fundamentals of disease state, indications, customer and science of assigned brands.
• Acts as the strategic planning day to day point of contact for internal team on key accounts.
• Understands and effectively utilizes the strategic process and agency structure as well as pharmaceutical marketing guidance and compliance requirements.
• Leads market research design, interviewing, insight identification, and reporting.
• Translates deeper immersion into market, competition, and customers into a robust fact base and actionable recommendations.
• Autonomously leads and owns social listening monitoring and analysis.
• Leads client workshops preparation and comfortably moderates break out groups and/or main sessions and capture
• key takeaways.
• Attends and contributes to internal/client meetings and creates output reports.
• Plays an active role in development of core brand strategy deliverables including campaign briefs, positioning target, tactical planning.
• Manages and mentors Strategic Planners and/or Associate Strategic Planners eg, delivering feedback, advising on day-to-day workload.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising, Communications or related field preferred
• Min 4 years in brand strategy or market research preferred
• Competent in software specific to the client and agency processes including Microsoft Word, Teams, PowerPoint, Excel.
• Strong working knowledge in research tools (search databases including SERMO, Datamonitor).
• Strong working knowledge in social media platforms.
• Strong oral and written communication with the ability to articulate and support a point of view in internal and external meetings.
• Ability to use AI platforms as an accelerant for brands needs and strategic deliverables.
• Active listening and keen attention to detail.

Salary

$90,000 to $120,000 annually

The salary range for this position is noted within this job posting. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

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