Vice President, Growth

Vice President, GrowthHeartbeat, Saatchi & Saatchi Health, and Razorfish Health are three distinct agencies with different strengths, cultures, and stories, supported by the scale and capabilities of Publicis Health and Publicis Groupe.We're looking for a VP of Growth who can help turn those strengths into wins. This person will lead our most important new business pursuits across all three agencies, partnering closely with the Head of Growth and senior leaders across strategy, creative, experience, media, data, account, and agency leadership. You'll help us quickly get to the heart of every opportunity: What will it take to win? What is the smartest story we can tell? And how do we create an experience the client will remember?You are equal parts strategist, storyteller, challenger, and orchestrator. You know how to take a complicated brief, disparate ideas, and a room full of senior opinions and turn them into a clear, differentiated pitch approach. You can see both the big idea and the weakness buried on slide 47. You know when a team needs encouragement, when it needs clarity, and when the work simply needs to get better.Reporting to the Head of Growth across Heartbeat, Saatchi & Saatchi Health, and Razorfish Health, you'll be a senior leader on the Growth team and a trusted partner to agency leadership. You'll also help continually improve how we pitch, bringing new ideas, outside inspiration, sharper practices, and a constant focus on making every pursuit stronger than the one before it.Responsibilities include:Partner with the Head of Growth and agency leadership to determine the strategy for winning our highest-priority opportunitiesSynthesize briefs, client intelligence, competitive context, and agency strengths to identify the core opportunity, barriers to winning, and areas requiring greater focusLead senior pitch teams through the critical early decisions: what we believe, what we will solve, how we will differentiate, what we will prove, and how we will show upEstablish clear strategic direction while enabling strategy, creative, and other disciplines to develop their strongest thinkingMaintain a view across the entire pursuit, ensuring the work adds up to the story and experience we set out to createServe as a senior sounding board and problem solver, addressing gaps, disagreements, and weaknesses before they become pitch-day problemsArchitect pitch narratives that turn complex strategies, capabilities, and ideas into clear, persuasive storiesIdentify the ideas a client should remember and ensure every section of the presentation reinforces themPush teams beyond answering the RFP to uncover the larger business opportunity behind the askShape presentation structures, headlines, transitions, executive framing, and key moments so the experience feels intentionalChallenge generic claims and familiar agency language, making our strengths more specific, credible, and differentiatedHelp presenters sharpen their content, delivery, chemistry, and confidenceBring fresh thinking to how we pitch, from early client interactions through the final presentation and follow-upIdentify opportunities for memorable pitch experiences that amplify the strategic ideaHelp us use data, technology, AI, creativity, and Publicis capabilities to strengthen both our thinking and how we demonstrate itBring inspiration from great selling inside and outside our category into our processMaintain a high bar for everything the client sees, hears, and experiencesBuild strong relationships across Heartbeat, Saatchi & Saatchi Health, Razorfish Health, Publicis Health, and the broader GroupeOperate as a strategic advisor, bringing an informed point of view and respectfully challenging the room when neededNavigate different leadership styles, agency cultures, and perspectives while helping teams reach clear decisionsKnow when to lead, when to facilitate, and when to let the right subject-matter expert take the floorRepresent the Growth team with confidence and credibility in senior agency and network conversationsPartner with the Head of Growth to assess pitch performance and identify patterns across wins, losses, and client feedbackSpot recurring weaknesses in our stories, capabilities, case studies, proof points, or ways of working, and develop practical solutionsBuild reusable frameworks, tools, and best practices that make teams faster and stronger without turning new business into a formulaEnsure our strongest thinking, work, and proof are easy to find and ready to deployPartner with fellow Growth team members to strengthen their work, provide strategic guidance, and create greater consistency across pursuitsHelp develop the Growth team, raising the strategic and creative bar while giving team members greater ownership and opportunities to growWhat success looks like a year from now:Our highest-priority pitches have a clearer strategy, sharper story, and more differentiated point of viewSenior leaders seek you out on important opportunities because they trust your judgment and know you will make the work betterPitch teams align earlier on what matters most and spend more time developing the things most likely to help us winOur live presentations feel less like presentations and more like persuasive, memorable experiencesWe learn systematically from wins and losses instead of starting from scratch every timeThe Growth team is more strategic, confident, and capable of leading important work independentlyMost importantly, your influence shows up in the scoreboard: we are winning more of the opportunities that matter mostQualifications include:8+ years of agency experience, with significant experience in new business, growth, strategy, account leadership, or a closely related discipline within healthcare marketingA strong track record of leading complex, high-stakes pitches and RFPs, ideally for large Creative AOR, integrated, or multi-agency opportunitiesDeep understanding of how great agency work gets made, from insight and brand strategy through creative, media, experience, data, and executionExceptional strategic storytelling skills. You can find the throughline, build the argument, sequence the story, and make complicated thinking feel simpleThe ability to quickly understand a client's business, category, competitive dynamics, and organizational needsExcellent judgment about what matters and what doesn't, including where teams should focus, where the work needs to go deeper, and what is distracting from the storyOutstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to create, edit, and elevate executive-level presentationsThe presence and confidence to challenge, advise, and align senior agency leaders while building strong, trusting relationshipsStrong creative instincts and a high bar for the strategy, content, and overall pitch experienceExperience motivating cross-functional teams through intense, fast-moving processesA strong instinct for the competitive landscape, including how other agencies sell, how client expectations are changing, and where we can differentiateCompensation Range: USD $149,340.00 - USD $239,148.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. This role may also be eligible for bonus or incentive compensation. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 10/19/2026.