Account Director

**OGILVY HEALTH: WE INSPIRE PEOPLE AND BRANDS TO IMPACT THE WORLD** Guided by this vision, Ogilvy Health, part of WPP, combines borderless creativity, scientific precision and cultural fluency to build healthcare’s most influential movements. We drive measurable impact and category-defining growth for brands ready to shape what’s next. Our approach is powered by fearless creativity that dares to be different, sparks emotional connections, and inspires action, ensuring cultural resonance. Scientific precision translates complex data into stories that resonate, while our impact-obsessed mindset focuses on delivering real-world outcomes. 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For more information, visit [](http://wpp.com/). **About the Role** The Account Director is a client management team role responsible for managing day-to-day account operations, building trusted relationships, and ensuring the agency delivers work that meets both brand and business objectives. As a trusted advisor to clients, the agency team, and cross-functional partners, this individual immerses themselves in the brand, developing a deep understanding of brand strategy and translating it into recommendations that are aligned with the brand's vision and grounded in the agency's point of view. This individual serves as a key connector between client priorities and the work produced across creative, medical, digital, and analytics disciplines, ensuring alignment, quality, and follow-through on execution. The Account Director partners closely with senior account leadership on complex or executive-level client relationships, while independently owning the brand foundation and day-to-day account management. Success in this role requires strong client management instincts, sound financial acumen, and the curiosity and energy to bring fresh thinking to every client interaction. **What You'll Do** - Manage client relationships, expectations, and deliverables day to day, ensuring client satisfaction, accountability, and successful project outcomes. - Learn and apply the full breadth of agency offerings to bring value to the client, serving as an invaluable partner to senior leadership on senior-level client relationships. - Review creative work to ensure it is on-strategy and meets client expectations, offering clear, constructive recommendations to the team. - Stay ahead of competitive trends, industry shifts, and client research to deliver forward-thinking points of view to clients. - Monitor monthly and quarterly financials, forecasts, and budgets, partnering with senior account leads to help the team achieve financial targets and milestones. - Foster strong collaboration, communication, and interpersonal connection within the team and across departments. - Contribute to new business efforts, including attending and participating in pitches. - Proactively grow and retain talent at the agency by managing and mentoring team members. **What You'll Need** - 8+ years of experience in advertising, with HCP advertising and digital marketing experience preferred. - Experienced presenter, able to command a room with both small and large groups. - Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience developing and delivering strategic and tactical plans. - Strong client engagement skills, including proactive communication, meeting management, presentation development and delivery, and responsiveness to questions and issues. - Solid financial management skills, including experience with project budgets, financial reporting (weekly, monthly, quarterly), and annual SOWs. - Ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and departments. **What Exceptional Looks Like** At Ogilvy Health, excellence is not defined solely by flawless execution—it is measured by the value we create for our clients, our teams, and our business. For an Account Director, that means work that not only meets expectations but consistently earns the client's trust and confidence. - Operates as a proactive partner to the client, anticipating needs and bringing recommendations rather than waiting to be asked. They stay curious about the brand and the business and let that curiosity show in every interaction. - Drives quality and consistency across every deliverable, ensuring the work reflects both the brand's strategy and the agency's standards for craft. They sweat the details while keeping the bigger picture in view. - Collaborates seamlessly across disciplines, pulling in the right expertise at the right time to solve client challenges efficiently and well. - Builds trust with clients and internal teams alike, strengthening relationships and reinforcing Ogilvy Health's role as an indispensable partner. **How We'll Support You** We celebrate our people fully, enthusiastically, and unhesitatingly. We’ll empower you with the tools you’ll need to succeed and provide the autonomy to seek out new paths and better ways of doing things. You’ll be supported by colleagues who are experts in their disciplines, drawn from across our network. We are committed to providing opportunities for you to do work of which you’ll be proud, with people you’ll be proud to call your teammates. *The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.* *We offer a competitive benefits package, click [here](https://mybenefits.wpp.com/public/welcome) for more details.* Pay Range $75,000—$180,000 USD *At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.* *We believe in building powerful teams with purpose – and we relentlessly curate transformative initiatives that make our commitment to fairness, and equity a reality.**Our ultimate mission is to leave a positive impact on the world, creating a better future for all, while supporting and uplifting the global communities we serve. This is central to our mantra of Borderless Creativity.* *Ogilvy is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.* *If you need any assistance seeking a job opportunity, or if you need reasonable accommodation with the application process, please contact us at . Please note that this contact is only for candidates who are requesting accommodation. Emails for other purposes, including application status requests, will not receive a response.*