Senior Director, Business Development

Senior Director, Business Development

Real Chemistry is seeking a Senior Director, Business Development to join our U.S.-based Growth team. This is a U.S. hybrid role, based in or near one of our U.S. hubs.

This role partners closely with executive leadership, client leads, and crossfunctional capability teams to lead highimpact pitches, expand strategic accounts, and strengthen Real Chemistry's overall business development approach.

Reporting into senior growth leadership, this role serves as a connector across markets, capabilities, and teams—bringing structure, strategic rigor, and storytelling excellence to the pursuit process while ensuring opportunities are positioned in a differentiated, clientcentric way.

What You'll Do

• Lead and support priority new business pitches from RFI/RFP through final presentation, partnering closely with Client Leads, Growth Leaders, and crossfunctional teams
• Partner with executive leaders and client teams to identify, prioritize, and shape highvalue growth opportunities.
• Translate client briefs into clear strategic frameworks and compelling pitch narratives aligned to Real Chemistry capabilities
• Coordinate teams across disciplines and markets to ensure cohesive, differentiated responses
• Manage pitch timelines, workflows, and deliverables across multiple concurrent efforts
• Support the development of pitch materials, including proposals, decks, and presentations
• Keep senior stakeholders informed of progress, risks, and resource needs throughout pursuits.
• Drive postpitch debriefs and help capture learnings to improve future performance
• Contribute to tracking win rates, pitch outcomes, and performance trends
• Champion consistency, best practices, and continuous improvement across the organization
• Foster collaboration, accountability, and high performance across diverse teams and geographies.

This Role Is a Good Fit If You

• Thrive in a fastpaced, deadlinedriven agency environment
• Enjoy collaborating across teams and disciplines to deliver strong outcomes
• You adapt quickly as priorities shift and enjoy working in a dynamic environment.
• Are a strategic thinker who can also execute with precision
• Bring a proactive, solutionsoriented mindset to complex challenges
• You can manage multiple priorities in a fastpaced, deadlinedriven environment.
• Are comfortable leading through influence rather than authority
• Value continuous improvement and building scalable, repeatable approaches

What You Should Have

• 8-10+ years of experience in an advertising, communications, or integrated marketing agency environment
• Healthcare industry experience across pharmaceutical, biotech, or related sectors
• Proven experience leading or supporting successful new business pitches
• Strong strategic thinking and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex client needs into compelling narratives.
• Solid understanding of integrated marketing, communications, medical, and activation disciplines
• Experience partnering with executive leadership to advance enterprise growth initiatives.
• Strong interpersonal skills and comfort working across disciplines.
• Highly organized, adaptable, and calm under pressure while managing multiple highstakes priorities.
• Comfort working in hybrid teams across locations and functions
• Familiarity with new business tracking, reporting, or performance tools

Pay Range: $130,000-$145,000

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Real Chemistry offers a comprehensive benefit program and perks, tailored to your region. Globally, this includes offices in our key markets with free snacks to keep you running all day long, generous holiday and paid time off, options for private medical, dental, and vision plans, and support in saving for the future. Other perks include mental wellness coaching and support and access to more than 13,000 online classes with LinkedIn Learning. Learn more about our great benefits and perks and search specific offerings in your region at:

Real Chemistry is an Equal Opportunity employer. We continually strive to build and sustain an inclusive and equitable work environment where our employees feel empowered to leverage all they bring from their personal lived experience and professional expertise, to make our team the best in the industry. We encourage motivated and qualified applicants to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, ethnic or national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local employment discrimination laws where Real Chemistry operates. Should you require accommodations throughout the interview process please let your recruiter know.

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