Head of Brand Strategy

About Avalere Health

Guided by a single mission to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE, our Advisory, Medical, and Marketing capabilities move as one, ensuring every patient is identified, supported, treated, and cared for. Equally.

Avalere Health is a global strategic partner, perfectly formed to solve the biggest challenges in health—at pace and at scale. We are united across the product lifecycle, uniquely positioned to understand every angle of life, health, and the human condition. Partnering with our clients, we are building a world where healthcare is not a barrier. And no patient is left behind.

We are powered by our unique and proprietary model, SenseMaking. Combining strategic tools and human ingenuity, SenseMaking allows us to transform limitations into pathways, obstacles into possibilities, and intricacy into action. Our talented, diverse, and passionate team—known as SenseMakers—strive each day to make EVERY PATIENT POSSIBLE.

About the role:

The Director, Brand Strategy is a key leadership role within the Global Marketing team at Avalere Health. In this role you will shape, develop, and lead a team of strategists who are focused on driving targeted, transformative insights, that fuel brand strategies, and behaviour-changing creative campaigns.

As an inspirational leader, you will consistently strive to anticipate changes in market conditions, develop recommendations that ensure competitive advantage, and influence meaningful change for our clients’ brands. You will have oversight of cross-functional activities and will help to enhance collaboration among strategy, scientific, creative, and account teams, to produce strategic recommendations that lead to significant brand results, while fostering an environment of continuous growth.

What you'll do:

• Strategic Leadership: Lead brand strategy work across the agency addressing critical strategic challenges
• Client Partnership: Establish credibility quickly with clients as a strong strategic partner, fostering upstream relationships to secure high-value strategic work
• Communication Excellence: Create clear expectations on compelling communication in all verbal and written work for internal and external purposes
• Team Development: Oversee global marketing strategy team development, ensuring clear objectives are set and success is tracked. Foster a culture of continuous learning, sharing, transparency, and collaboration
• Innovation and Improvement: Drive innovation in service offerings, foster a culture of continuous learning and growth, sharing best practices across the organization
• Collaboration: Work collaboratively with account, creative, and scientific teams to produce strategic recommendations that drive significant brand results
• Brand Planning: Oversee brand planning functions within global marketing, collaborating with leads to drive industry-leading approaches compatible with diverse client needs

About you:

• Expert understanding of brand strategy on Global and Regional EMEA accounts
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing senior strategists
• Deep pharma knowledge across multiple therapy areas, including brand launch and creative AOR
• Proven ability to anticipate account challenges based on lifecycle or competitive dynamics
• Demonstrated capability in driving process development for global marketing




This role is integral to advancing Avalere Health's strategic initiatives by leveraging expertise in brand strategy while fostering an environment that values industry trends and collaborative growth. You are an integral member of the leadership team and will work to continually shape and drive the future success of Global Marketing business.

What we can offer

Avalere Health aims to empower every employee to develop and thrive. We empower our team with the tools, skills, and support needed to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges.

At the center of our people-led culture is our Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career. We also pride ourselves on our personalized learning approach to ensure you receive the training you need to help you grow within the company and take advantage of our global scale and scope.

We are committed to embedding diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our organization. We encourage diversity of thought, inclusive behavior, and break down barriers to ensure every individual feels valued and encouraged to contribute their unique abilities and potential. As part of our commitment to building a healthier world, every employee is also encouraged to participate in our community engagement efforts, which support a wide range of healthcare programs and wellbeing causes worldwide.

We have city hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization while maintaining and fully supporting flexible working practices. Our compensation and benefits package is benchmarked across the industry. We offer a generous company pension/retirement plan, private medical insurance, comprehensive employee wellbeing initiatives, compelling time-off policy, plus many other excellent employee benefits. 

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