Senior Account Executive

Senior Account Executive

Heartbeat is a full-service agency for healthcare challenger brands. Challengers are playing a high-stakes game—they must battle behemoth market leaders, upend ingrained treatment habits, or transform a "me-too" product into "yes-please." The agency is known for serving up distinctive strategies and differentiating approaches, ensuring clients' market positions are uniquely owned. Heartbeat designs their organization around a 100% integration model, housing media, strategy, med comms, creative, technology, and even point of care/population health under the same roof for the tightest, most integrated campaigns possible. They price work based on outcomes, not outputs. Their innovative model delivers not only alignment, but powerful orchestration, greater efficiency, and maximum impact for every dollar spent—all the necessary elements for challengers to triumph.

We're Heartbeat, the marketing agency for healthcare challenger brands and the brave clients behind them. And hopefully you're our next senior account executive, helping us to deliver game-changing campaigns for consumers and HCPs. Read on to learn more about what qualities we're looking for in a new member of the crew and why you're gonna dig working with us.

Our team is looking for someone who can help us develop, nurture and grow our relationships with top-tier healthcare clients. Beyond that, here's how you'll make your mark:

Agency Operations:

• Finances: Familiarity with and adherence to agency financial and operating procedures and policies. Maintains accurate, organized files.
• Trouble shoot: Solution oriented. Brings problems to the attention of management
• Team Leadership: Positive influence

Knowledge:

• Solid understanding of the pharmaceuticals and healthcare industries and at least two media channels
• Continuously learning technology
• Adheres to agency process. Identifies issues and contributes to problem resolution

Strategy:

• Competitive positioning: Understands client positioning and strategy
• Informing: Keeps team informed of changes in client/competitive climate. Communicates clearly and frequently
• Planning: Research on category, competitive data, therapeutic areas

How you'll grow with us:

Sr Account Executive is where you'll start, but we're always planning for where you'll go. Our Senior Account Executives are all expected to hone skills that will help build on their careers. Those skills include:

Tactics and Execution:

• Contributes thoughtfully to the brand tactical planning and creative process
• Works with account team to execute plan tactics
• Responsible for accurate and thorough documentation: status reports, contact report,; Takes ownership of day-to-day tactics and executions within agency
• Develops strong and positive working relationships with production, creative, finance, other departments

Client Relationship:

• Communications: Attends client meetings and provides timely follow-up (e.g. contact reports). Synchronizes communications between account teams, vendors and clients
• Presentations: Organizes/manages client presentations. Influence and diplomacy in written and verbal communications. Effective but concise communications.
• Relationship: Is able to communicate directly and frequently with client with some autonomy. Builds rapport and credibility with client peer based on trust and expert counsel
• Works with client to execute advertising and marketing plans

Heartbeat is a healthcare marketing & creative agency, headquartered in NYC and powered by ~300 smart people all over the US. In the past four years, we've been named a 4-time "Best Place to Work" by AdAge and MM+M and a "Diversity & Inclusion Champion" by MedAdNews.

Qualifications

What you're bringing with you:

• 2+ years of Account Management experience
• Bachelor's degree
• Exceptional client management relationship skills
• Ability to rapidly grasp client marketing objectives
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple client contacts
• Ability to learn quickly and handle multiple tasks
• Ability to analyze data (site metrics, media performance metrics)

We care about three big things:

• Empowering Challenger Brands
• Being the Best Place You'll Ever Work
• Fostering a Diverse & Caring Community

About Publicis Health & Publicis Groupe

Heartbeat is a proud member of Publicis Health, the largest health communications network in the world. Publicis Health is one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe, the third-largest advertising and media company in the world — offering us unparalleled global reach and resources. Our Publicis Groupe motto "Viva La Différence" means we're better together, and we believe that our differences make us stronger. It means we honor and celebrate all identities, across all facets of intersectionality, and it underpins all that we do as an organization. We are focused on fostering belonging and creating equitable & inclusive experiences for all talent. Publicis Groupe provides robust and inclusive benefit programs and policies to support the evolving and diverse needs of our talent and enable every person to grow and thrive. Our benefits package includes medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401K, as well as parental and family care leave, family forming assistance, tuition reimbursement, and flexible time off. If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Compensation Range: $59,850.00 - $90,620.00 Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. 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. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility 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 1/12/26.