Vice President of Brand Strategy, Avalere Health
$170-215k
Global healthcare communications agency
Open for applications
Global healthcare communications agency
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$170-215k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To imagine new possibilities for a healthier world and create the connections that make better health happen.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in brand strategy, strategic planning, or related strategy roles, preferably within healthcare, pharma, life sciences, or a highly regulated industry
- Proven ability to independently lead strategy across complex accounts, including setting direction, guiding clients, and owning deliverables from start to finish
- Experience developing brand positioning, messaging architecture, strategic foundations, go-to-market strategy, creative briefs, and campaign strategy
- Experience applying audience and insight development, including market research, customer insights, segmentation, patient journeys, and behavioral drivers
- Skilled storyteller, facilitator, and presenter with the ability to translate complex information into clear, compelling narratives
What the job involves
- We are seeking a VP, Brand Strategy to shape what brands stand for, where they need to go, and why they matter. This role owns the strategic foundation that helps brands uncover their sharpest point of differentiation, connect more meaningfully with audiences, and create a clear path for long-term growth
- This individual will serve as the day-to-day strategic lead for clients and internal teams, ensuring brand strategy drives sharper positioning, stronger audience connection, more effective creative work, and measurable business impact. They will bring clarity to complexity, align teams around a shared strategic vision, and help turn insight into work that moves the brand forward
- Lead end-to-end brand strategy across key accounts, owning direction, quality of output, and overall impact
- Define brand, go-to-market, and creative strategy, including positioning, messaging architecture, competitive strategy, and strategic foundations
- Lead client workshops, strategic discussions, presentations, and day-to-day engagement
- Translate insights, research, audience needs, and business objectives into actionable plans, briefs, and recommendations
- Ensure execution remains aligned to brand strategy, identifying gaps and course-correcting as needed
- Partner cross-functionally with Creative, Medical/Scientific, Media, Account, Engagement Strategy, Analytics, and other teams to bring strategy to life
- Manage, mentor, and develop junior strategists, providing clear direction and feedback
Our take
Avalere Health, founded in 2001 and formerly known as Fishawack, has built a strong reputation as a leading provider of cross-border strategy consultation, communications, and marketing expertise for companies in the biopharmaceutical, medical technology, and wellness industries.
Though the company doesn’t make its exact customer list public knowledge, it does claim to serve all of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies in the world, as well as several breakout biotech and medtech enterprises. In the over two decades since its founding, it has acquired and merged 19 healthcare firms worldwide - including Avalere Health, from which it takes its new name.
Given that it’s grown from one location in the UK to encompass teams across the US, Europe, and Asia, the company appears to operate from a position of serious strength in this trillion-dollar space. Recently, it seems Avalere has focussed on building out its leadership team as it embraces its new branding and manifesto.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- The tools, skills, and support you need to think differently and to solve healthcare’s most complex challenges
- Career Experience team, whose mission is to provide every employee with a purpose-driven career
- Personalized learning and training
- Hubs across North America, Europe, and Asia, geared toward collaborating, training, socializing, and coming together as a global organization
- Flexible working practices
- Company pension/retirement plan
- Private medical insurance
- Employee wellbeing initiatives
- Compelling time-off policy
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Leadership
Amar Urhekar
(CEO)Was previously the COO of Avalere Health, Group President at Evoke, Global President at Ashfield Health and was President of the Americas at McCann Health.
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