OGILVY HEALTH: WE INSPIRE PEOPLE AND BRANDS TO IMPACT THE WORLD

Guided by this vision, Ogilvy Health, part of WPP, combines borderless creativity, scientific precision, cultural fluency, and AI-enabled capabilities to build healthcare's most influential movements. We believe the future belongs to those who can seamlessly blend human ingenuity with emerging technologies, using AI not simply as a tool, but as a catalyst for deeper insights, faster problem solving, and more impactful work. We drive measurable impact and category-defining growth for brands ready to shape what's next. Our approach is powered by fearless creativity that dares to be different, sparks emotional connections, and inspires action, ensuring cultural resonance. Scientific precision translates complex data into stories that resonate, while our impact-obsessed mindset focuses on delivering real-world outcomes.

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POSITION OVERVIEW

Ogilvy Health is seeking a highly motivated and experienced VP, New Business to lead and drive strategic pitch processes for large, complex healthcare opportunities. This key role will be highly visible at the most senior levels of Ogilvy Health and will require collaborative leadership across highly specialized, cross-disciplinary teams. Reporting to the Chief Growth Officer, this role will be responsible for leading and supporting purposeful growth across our teams in North America.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Pitch Leadership: Lead mid-to-large new business pitches for as a strategic architect, facilitating the entire pitch process from opportunity qualification through proposal development and pitch delivery. Guide integrated teams crafting compelling strategies and narratives that balance breakthrough, culture-shifting creativity with medical/scientific accuracy and regulatory compliance.
Creative Ambition: Works across disciplines to foster a culture of creative ambition, championing bold and winning creative concepts that go beyond the RFP by showcasing a creative vision that challenges standard healthcare communications conventions.
Scientific & Creative Integration: Partners closely with scientific, medical, strategy, and creative leads to ensure clinical data and complex disease-state landscapes are translated into compelling, human-centric creative narratives.
Strategic Alignment: Leads discussions with pitch teams on “what will win this” and “how do we make this even better?,” ensuring our recommendations addresses specific commercial challenges and tell a compelling story for our prospective clients, helping them envision their brand’s highest potential.
Pitch Preparation: Ensures the pitch team has relevant brand, clinical, regulatory, and competitive background. Gives strategic and effective feedback to the team throughout the process.
Client & Procurement Relations: Helps build relationships with C-suite, commercial leads, and pharmaceutical procurement teams throughout the process. Develops and owns relationships with key health-specific pitch consultants.
Ogilvy Group & WPP Integration: Serve as a partner and collaborator both with our sister agencies in Ogilvy Health Group and our WPP partners, providing leadership and support to help drive network and integrated pitches.
Financial & Operational Oversight: Works with Project Management and Finance on the best financial and staffing model approach (SOWs, FTE allocations, and rate cards specific to health/pharma). Understands internal resource costs and aligns growth goals to investment and expected ROI.