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Title: Senior Copywriter
Company/Location: CDM/New York
Department/Discipline: Creative
Reports to: Copy Supervisor or VP, Copy Supervisor or VP, Group Copy Supervisor
Core Competencies: Customer Focus, Interpersonal Savvy, and Creativity
Overview: The Senior Copywriter (SCW) is responsible for brainstorming ideas, developing concepts and producing brand specific messaging for print and digital deliverables with minimal oversight from the senior copy team. The Senior Copy Writer is an integral member of a cross functional team dedicated to creating work aligned with client’s brand strategy and CDM New York’s creative vision rooted in truth, beauty and courage.
Responsibilities:
- Write brand-appropriate, creative pieces in a variety of mediums; both online and offline (i.e. sales aids, resource guides, iPad apps)
- Write effective copy aligned to brand strategy for a variety of audiences (i.e. healthcare professionals, patients and/or consumers)
- Leverage understanding of assigned brands, indications, therapeutic categories, and competitive landscape to push creative boundaries
- Incorporate feedback, comments and changes from senior copy team and cross functional partners while adhering to timelines and due dates
- Annotate references for fact check in accordance with AMA style-manuals
- Present ideas, tactics, and strategies to senior copy team, internal cross-functional team and clients
- Participate in CDM group and creative team initiatives as appropriate
- Participate in all training courses offered by SSCGU, as assigned
- Support and/or lead team or agency initiatives as assigned
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 2 years experience as a copywriter in a pharmaceutical advertising agency
- Portfolio containing finished professional pieces as well as conceptual work
- Able to annotate references in accordance to the AMA style guide with strong fact-checking skills
- Superior written and verbal communication skills with the ability to receive and assimilate critical feedback
- Able to multi-task in a faced paced environment while functioning as a member of a highly collaborative team
- Solid understanding of digital communications and media channels preferred
- Proficient in Microsoft Office with knowledge of Adobe CS5.5
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Title: Junior Art Director
Company/Location: CDM New York
Department/Discipline: Art
Competencies: Customer Focus, Interpersonal Savvy and Creativity
Overview: The Junior Art Director is responsible for learning about the basics of healthcare advertising, creating concepts on strategy, and the agency process. The Junior Art Director is a driven and ambitious member of the creative team with an eye for design.
Responsibilities:
- Develop concepts and supporting materials for 360º healthcare advertising
- Work closely with copy and account services as a team player to ensure that the creative needs of your brand(s) are met
- Be a brand steward: manage design, typography and overall visual identity in the online and offline spaces
- Stay Creatively Fresh: actively seek and share digital inspiration (creative, technology, general digital trends) with their teams, art department, and agency
- Ability to present/communicate in an organized, professional, and effective manner
- Responsible for managing workload and timeline.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
- Hybrid designer: print and digital
- Minimum 1-2 years’ experience at an advertising agency or 2 years at a design studio
- Team oriented
- Basic knowledge of presenting creative work
- Degree in Art Design/Advertising
- Demonstrate outstanding creative conceptual and design skills through a portfolio that is clean and visually strong
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Title: Financial Analyst
Company/Location: Omnicom Health Group/New York
Department/Discipline: Finance
About Omnicom Health Group:
Omnicom Health Group is the largest healthcare marketing and communications group in the world. With nearly 4,000 talented specialists dedicated exclusively to health, we have the expertise, insight, creativity, and scale to engage customers across the entire healthcare ecosystem. And create meaningful change through better, more innovative communications.
Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain financial models for budgeting, forecasting, and reporting.
- Assist with revenue reporting and recognition process.
- Position requires oversight as well as hands-on preparation of analyses and forecast scenarios.
- Provide excellent customer service to all employees, clients, and vendors.
- Assist finance manager with inventory (hours and out-of-pocket costs) on the Work-in-Progress on an ongoing basis
- Run A/R reports; work with clients’ AP departments to clear invoices and secure payments
- Work directly with the billing department to ensure all fees and expenses are billed to clients in a timely and accurate manner
- Prepare and maintain regular financial planning reports; Monthly profit and loss forecast by department actual vs. budget.
- Develop and execute analysis of various business initiatives.
- Determines cost of operations by establishing standard costs; collecting operational data.
- Identifies financial status by comparing and analyzing actual results with plans and forecasts.
- Improves financial status by analyzing results; monitoring variances; identifying trends; recommending actions to management.
- Reconciles transactions by comparing and correcting data.
- Recommends actions by analyzing and interpreting data and making comparative analyses.
- Protects operations by keeping financial information confidential.
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.
Qualifications and Experience:
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- 1-2 years of related industry experience
- Advanced Excel skills a must
- Dynamics AX, and Cognos experience a plus
- Advertising experience a plus
- The ability to collaborate with executive team members, clients and other business stakeholders to ensure the integrity of company standards and operations.
- Excellent communication skills; including strong presentation skills.
- Strong project management and performance management skills.
- Demonstrated financial management experience, including the development of financial projections, budgets, resources and managing to these appropriately.
- The ability to successfully manage multiple initiatives/projects in a deadline-driven environment.
- A positive attitude and the ability to thrive in a collaborative agency environment.
- Solid analytical problem solving.
- Ability to collaborate effectively at all levels and functions.
- Strong client-service orientation.
- Proven ability to manage projects to successful completion, multi-task, and work within tight deadlines.
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Title: Senior Art Director
Company/Location: CDM NY/ New York
Department/Discipline: Art
Core Competencies: Customer Focus, Interpersonal Savvy and Creativity
Overview: The Senior Art Director creates killer designs and delivers meaningful, on-strategy creative. The Senior Art Director is someone who is passionate about their brand team’s work and advancing the agency’s creative.
Responsibilities:
- Develop concepts and supporting materials for 360º healthcare advertising
- Work closely with copy and account services as a team player to ensure that the creative needs of your brand(s) are met
- Be a brand steward: manage design, typography, overall visual identity and strategy
- Assist in the selection of photographers/illustrators and work with the team to create campaigns and other supporting brand artwork
- Keep creative management aware of pertinent account activity
- Stay Creatively Fresh: actively seek and share digital inspiration (creative, technology, general digital trends) with their teams, art department, and agency
- Must be able to present ideas in an organized, professional, and effective manner
- Responsible for managing workload and timelines
- Maintain awareness of brand budgets
- Participate in new business pitches
- Have confidence and be able to establish rapport with client
Qualifications and Experience:
- Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
- Hybrid designer: print and digital
- Minimum 3 years’ experience at an advertising agency
- Team oriented
- Strong ability to present creative work
- Clear and professional communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Art Design/Advertising
- Demonstrate outstanding creative conceptual and design skills through a portfolio that is clean and visually strong
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Title: Art Supervisor
Department/Discipline: Art
Company/Location: CDM NY / New York
Competencies: Customer Focus, Interpersonal Savvy and Creativity
Overview: The Art Supervisor is a master of delivering great work on one or more brands, and will manage one or more people. The Art Supervisor is a high performer who is considered the backbone of the team. Internal staff and clients look to the Art Supervisor for their knowledge and they are relied on to get the job done. The Art Supervisor is involved in day-to-day brand assignments but can also see the big, strategic picture.
Responsibilities:
- Ability to build a brand visually from the ground up, including: developing color palettes, type families, illustration/photography style, point of view and more
- Ability to manage production of brand visuals (photo shoots, video shoots, working with illustrators)
- Supervise art direction as a liaison between Senior Art Director/Art Director and Creative Director. Act as an advisor to junior art staff
- Maintain awareness of budget requirements to ensure the best visualization of the product while staying within the budget
- Maintain awareness of issues in day-to-day functioning of team dynamics
- Work closely with Copy and Account Services as a cohesive team player to ensure that strategic goals and objectives are met
- Establish rapport with client and be able to present ideas in an organized, professional, and effective manner
- To be regarded as a creative thought leader within the department/team/client
- Stay Creatively Fresh: actively seek and share digital inspiration (creative, technology, general digital trends) with their teams, art department, and agency
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
- Has 4+ years of agency experience (some healthcare experience is a plus but not necessary)
- Presents a strong conceptual and design portfolio showcasing a variety of 360º projects
- Is passionate about design, is self-motivated, and is quick to meet challenges with strategic thought
- Has experience with strategic brainstorming and campaign development
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Overview:
Title: Copy Supervisor
Company/Location: CDM NY / New York
Department/Discipline: Copy
Core Competencies: Customer Focus, Interpersonal Savvy, and Creativity
Overview: The Copy Supervisor (CS) is responsible for brainstorming ideas, developing concepts and producing brand specific messaging for print and digital deliverables on assigned brands while overseeing the junior members of the copy team. The Copy Supervisor is a lead member of a cross functional team dedicated to creating work aligned with client's brand strategy and CDM's creative vision.
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with cross functional partners to create novel and original work in a variety of mediums for a variety of audiences; both online and offline
- Develop a refined understanding of the brand, category and overall marketplace
- Leverage effective presentation skills to persuade internal and external clients to execute work that exceeds basic requirements of the brief
- Oversee tone, style, structure and voice of all content, based on brand strategy, client expectation and creative brief
- Manage direct reports (Interns, Copywriters, Senior Copywriters) in their efforts to research, conceptualize and write original content
- Manage and mentor direct reports guiding their overall development and skills in line with CDM creative group standards
- Coordinate resources (staff and freelance) ensuring all deliverables are met
- Lead CDM group and creative team initiatives as appropriate
- Coach and develop direct report(s) by creating individual development plans, providing on the job learning and ensuring attendance at relevant SSCGU courses
- Participate in all management courses offered by SSCGU, as assigned
- Support and/or lead team or agency initiatives as assigned
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor's degree with a concentration in advertising, communications or journalism and/or coursework related to Pharmaceutical advertising or life sciences is preferred, not required
- Portfolio containing work samples that demonstrate strong conceptual abilities, creative thinking, and exceptional writing skills
- Strong academic achievement combined with campus leadership and/or community involvement
- Previous internship within the advertising industry or related field; pharmaceutical advertising exposure is preferred, not required
- Able to multi-task in a faced paced environment while functioning as a member of a highly collaborative team
- Basic understanding of digital communications and media channels preferred
- Superior written and verbal communication skills with the ability to receive and assimilate critical feedback
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
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Title: VP, Account Planner
Department/Discipline: Account Planning
Company/Location: CDM NY/New York
Responsibilities:
- Identify and leverage market and customer insights into meaningful brand idea and strategies.
- Work closely with account management and creative teams to become a valued strategic partner both internally and externally
- Create a “workshop” style environment dialogue that inspires creative thinking among diverse groups of people
- Lead teams in developing compelling, single-minded strategies and briefs that inspire great creative
- Provide an agency perspective on market research planning, execution and translation.
- Participate in New Business efforts—conducting market research, writing the creative brief, and presenting key insights to the prospective client.
Qualifications and Experience:
- Candidates should have 5-7 years of account/strategic planning experience or expertise in a relevant field, like cultural or medical anthropology, psychology, ethnography or qualitative research.
- Desire and ability to apply their skills to the creative development process and enjoys the art of storytelling.
- MUST have either professional pharmaceutical or DTC experience.
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Title: Account Supervisor
Company/Location: CDM NY/New York
Department/Discipline: Account Services
Competencies: Customer Focus, Interpersonal Savvy and Creativity
Overview: The Account Supervisor (AS) is responsible for developing and overseeing the implementation of marketing strategies for our clients and will be expected to maintain a complete working knowledge of the assigned disease segment and brand goals. The AS will manage client relationships, oversee talent development for direct report(s) and ensure financial goals are attained as outlined in the metrics associated with this role.
Responsibilities:
- Execute strategy, provide brand stewardship and maintain strong client satisfaction on assigned brand(s)
- Communicate client needs to all cross functional partners ensuring projects are on brief and in line with brand strategy
- Effectively present the agency’s recommendations, points-of-view, or strategy documents to clients, taking a leadership role in their preparation
- Work with Project Management to provide accurate and timely product forecasts – while seeking supervisor’s input on critical situations or changes
- Ensure that team members know and follow established agency account procedures, including but not limited to; account files, approval process and status reports
- Develop presentations to sell recommendations to client(s)
- Conduct regular meetings with account group team to discuss client issues, opportunities and work in progress
- Supervise and motivate account group team to ensure a high level of client satisfaction
- Coach and develop direct report(s) by creating individual development plans, providing on the job learning and ensuring attendance at relevant SSCGU courses
- Participate in all management courses offered by SSCGU, as assigned
- Support and/or lead team or agency initiatives as assigned
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 3 years of medical marketing or agency experience
- Previous experience managing one or more direct reports
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Able to collaborate across a multi-disciplinary brand team
- Excellent presentation skills with an ability to present ideas to brand teams and clients
- Experience working on digital projects or accounts with strong digital focus
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
