Digitas Health is the Agency of Now: the first global connected-health agency, purpose-built for marketing today. Digitas Health specializes in helping health brands navigate a complex and shifting media environment to create deeper, more relevant connections with their consumer and professional customers. With offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, and London, it is a member of the world's largest healthcare communications network, Publicis Health. As a member of this elite network, Digitas Health is also a member of the Paris-based Publicis Groupe S.A. (Euronext Paris: FR0000130577), the world's third-largest communications group, second-largest media counsel and buying group, and a leader in digital communications.

Web: www.digitashealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/digitashealth | Twitter: www.twitter.com/digitas_health

Our advanced Technology capability delivers cutting-edge, high-impact digital products and platforms. We have strategic partnerships with the world’s leading marketing and technology vendors that allow us to leverage the top platforms and tools for our clients. Through collaborating with Digital Strategy, Experience Design, Creative, Data and Analytics, Project Management, and Account teams, our technologists are paving the way for innovation and transforming the marketing landscape.

Our team is made up of a diverse group of highly qualified people with various backgrounds, who bring qualities such as intellectual curiosity, determination, and creativity to our client work.

We’re searching for a Vice President, Group Director, Technology to be a technical delivery lead for a client engagement, overseeing a cross-functional technical team. In this executive leadership role, you will be responsible for building, delivering, and scaling Digitas Health’s wide range of technical offerings to our clients. These services include marketing technology strategy, platform and tool recommendations, full-stack software/platform development, quality assurance, business analysis, and managed services.

As a key leader, you will partner with highly talented individuals across Publicis Health – including Digital Strategy, User Experience, Marketing, Media, Data and Analytics, Creative, and Content Factory – to deliver transformative success for our clients. You will also be responsible for the career management for multiple technology team leaders, as well as shaping the culture of the technology team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Executive leadership across client engagements, including setting policies, processes, standards, and best practices
• Overall health and client satisfaction of multiple client engagements
• Articulating Digitas Health’s views on digital business philosophies, keeping clients up-to-date on the latest technologies and leading the vision for growth for the long term
• Leading a team of VPs, Technology Directors and Managers
• Owning the relationship with client IT or Technology teams
• Developing and maintaining relationships with the client marketing, customer experience, and promotional review teams
• Organic growth of current client engagements and leading technology involvement in new business efforts
• Providing leadership and/or guiding the implementation and activation of MarTech platforms; identifying opportunities and providing recommendations for platform optimization through strong understanding of product roadmaps in correlation to client business goals
• Continuous success of project delivery
• Consulting for estimation of projects and large-scale engagements and scope documents
• Financial accountability for technology scopes
• Forecasting and maintaining right-sized technology staffing across multiple engagements and projects
• Removing impediments from both day-to-day projects and organizational progress
• Driving cross-capability team adherence to the SDLC process
• Providing executive sign-off for technical requirements, production deployments, and policy documents
• Collaborating with digital strategists during strategic development
• Collaborating with business analysts, product owners, and project managers during the creation of requirements
• Collaborating with Creative and UX teams in the design phase of the projects
• Collaborating with the Technical Architects and client IT teams to design technical solutions
• Staying current on emerging marketing technologies, best-practices, and trends
• Developing relevant case studies on client businesses and vendor partner experiences to help support optimization and new business initiatives
• Managing and developing the technology capability to adapt to changing environments and needs and drive and coach teams to successful solutions and continuous skill development and growth

To qualify, you’ll need:

• Four-year degree (Computer Science or equivalent preferred) or equivalent work experience
• 12+ years of work experience within the marketing technology or IT space
• 10+ years of experience with leading multidisciplinary technical teams
• 5+ years of experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products and/or similar platforms including Salesforce, Sitecore and Acquia, is preferred
• 4-5 years of experience in delivering enterprise omni-channel connected marketing solutions and experiences
• Deep expertise with software development processes and conventions
• Expertise with the foundational elements of web page anatomy and building blocks such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
• Expertise with the marketing technologies such as websites, emails, banners, databases, and experience management platforms
• Expertise with business and technical processes to enable technology solutions
• Experience in identifying and communicating project and team risks to leadership and clients
• Experience leading client meetings, presentations, and new business efforts
• Experience leading multiple simultaneous projects for multiple clients
• Experience working within multiple project management methodologies, e.g., Scrum and Waterfall
• Experience with standard business software such as Microsoft Office Suite, web browsers, etc; as well as industry-specific tools JIRA, Sketch, Zeplin, automated testing, etc.
• Understanding of accessibility (WCAG) best-practices
• Familiarity with business operations such as margin, profitability, contract terms, and project burn
• Ability and willingness to learn about various marketing technologies and platforms
• Ability to be flexible and tolerate ambiguity while still operating effectively
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• To be a highly motivated individual with a strong record of professional achievement
• Creative agency experience a plus
• Pharmaceutical industry experience a plus
• Recent Adobe certifications are huge plus
• Candidate must be open to travel (including internationally) as needed

About Publicis Health

Publicis Health is the premier global health and wellness communications network. We are one of the four solutions hubs of Publicis Groupe, the third-largest advertising and media company in the world, giving us unparalleled global reach. We manage top-tier agencies specializing in promoting innovative solutions in advertising, medical education, clinical trial program development, sales and marketing, digital, market access, and medical and scientific affairs. Our nearly 6,500 employees work at 15 agency brands across 60 offices located in 10 countries. We are a connected solutions hub, equipped for continual business
transformation in today’s world. We integrate services across our global offices and brands to deliver on our clients’ needs. Each of our agencies brings a unique approach to business, which makes us even stronger together. We understand the rapidly changing healthcare environment and leverage it to maximize the potential of our clients’ brands.

Web: www.publicishealth.com | Facebook: www.facebook.com/publicishealth

Twitter: www.twitter.com/PublicisHealth/

Not all applicants will be contacted. PHCG is an equal opportunity employer. No vendor/agency solicitation please.

Compensation Range: $159,000 - $269,000. 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. For this role, 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 07/16/2024.