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Title: Senior Account Executive
Department/Discipline: Account Services
Company/Location: CDM NY/New York
Competencies: Compassion, Creativity, Customer Focus, Informing, Intellectual Horsepower, Drive For Results
Job Responsibilities
- Meet with client on a regular basis to ensure promotional needs and tactical programs are being implemented
- Partner with project management to coordinate multi-channel marketing plans on all assigned brands
- Provide clear and complete direction on all projects, and direct all meetings
- Review all jobs for consistency with brand strategy and client direction
- Inform client of any changes in agreed-upon direction, timelines, cost, etc.
- Work closely with project management and supervisor to monitor job costs vs estimates
- Work with agency/client teams to develop annual brand promotional plans
​Desired Skills and Experience
- Ability to multitask in a fast-paced, high stress, deadline-driven environment
- Demonstrated excellence in attention to detail and follow-through
- Strong ability to think critically. We need problem solvers!
- Effective listener
- Experience presenting information, both verbally and written, to clients and senior management
- Proven abilities of financial accountability (with client and agency budgets)
- Ability to travel on an as-needed basis
Required Qualifications
- BA/BS degree, with coursework emphasis in communications, advertising, or science
- 2-4+ years agency account management experience, with at least 1-2 years pharmaceutical experience
- Demonstrated experience with producing digital and print deliverables (HCP and consumer)
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Title: Freelance Account Supervisor
Location: 220 East 42nd street
Primary Job Responsibilities
- Understand the creative process and provide ideas for improving existing executions
- Ability to see the big picture, identify key issues, and provide proactive tactical and strategic recommendations
- Demonstrate mastery of brand category and competitive data, including key studies
- Seek non-traditional solutions to marketing/marketplace problems
- Internalized marketplace events, market research, etc., and develop and communicate strategic/tactical recommendations for the brand
- Oversee/manage the tactical plan development process, while contributing to tactical plan design:
o Communicate key client issues/initiatives to team
o Oversee creation of competitive review
o Generate key issues/objectives/strategies
o Supervise development of tactics/budget/timing
o Manage internal approval process
- Keep senior management briefed on account activities
- Foster a positive and productive team atmosphere and establish credibility both internally and externally
- Facilitate and maximize client relationships
o Maintain regular client contact at all levels and become integral part of client team, ensuring that the client is updated and briefed on all relevant account activity
o Ensure that all agency work represents the best we have to offer -- strategically sound, arresting creative, error-free
o Ensure that client is perceived positively within agency
o Understand the client’s perspective and challenges, and communicate these to the entire agency team
Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the client's business and actively seek opportunities for
further account development
Foster client understanding of the agency’s needs and perspective
Establish credibility with clients at all levels
Additional Responsibilities
- Communicate effectively and professionally both internally and externally
- Demonstrate good problem-solving and interpersonal skills
- Demonstrate ability to set priorities while handling multiple projects and to delegate work appropriately
- Remain calm despite high pressure situations
- Project a professional, positive attitude toward peers and clients within the department and the agency
- Embody service-oriented attitude and uphold quality standards in servicing the client
- Maintain accurate time sheets
- Foster a positive team atmosphere demonstrating respect for peers and supervisors
- Assist other members of department/team as needed when workload allows
- Foster senior level partnerships with creative/account colleague
- Understand when it’s appropriate to make decisions independently and when to escalate issues/decisions to manager
- Uphold the Company Values (the 3 E’s) in all decisions and interactions
Qualifications
- College Degree, preferably in marketing, advertising, communications or science/medicine
- 4 years working in a Pharmaceutical Advertising company
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including ability to write basic documents(Creative Briefs)
- Maturity to handle senior-level Client contact
- Understanding of business principals
- Thorough knowledge of, and depth of experience with, marketing/advertising
- Ability to manage and train staff, including prioritization of creative hours
- Professional image
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Title: Freelance Project Manager
Company/Location: CDM New York, New York NY
Department/Discipline: Project Management
Overview: We are looking for accountable, team building problem-solvers! The Project Manager is the core of the agency brand team, responsible for ensuring the creative, editorial, production, development and account teams are working together and have what the need to do their jobs excellently. Project managers are responsible for developing robust project scopes and project plans, and working with their teams to execute those projects on time and within budget. PMs work with account and finance to ensure the financial health of their brands.
Responsibilities:
- Liaise with cross-functional team of Account Executives, Copywriters, Art Directors, Developers, Editorial, Studio production and Coordinators to fulfill client requests and expectations
- Develop project scope, staff plans and project plans with support of more senior members of the Project Management team as needed, and with the input of department leads and Account
- Ensure strong team communication, including maintaining project status documents and conducting project status meetings
- Support client MLR submissions, ensuring accuracy and timeliness
- Identify and act on opportunities to improve our processes and ways of working
- Prepare billing and forecast income
- Partner with Account to provide Clients with all production schedules and critical milestones
Qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 2 years of interactive project management experience in an advertising agency or similar environment
- Pharmaceutical advertising agency experience required
- Minimum of 1 year experience working on digital projects or digitally focused accounts
- Familiar with interactive mediums; websites, banners, kiosks, Tablet PCs, etc.
- Familiar with Print Production processes
- Strong understanding of development technologies and quality assurance process
- Superior verbal and written communication skills
- Strong collaboration skills
- Solid presentation skills; able to present ideas to brand teams
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and MS Project
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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: Freelance 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.
