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Executive Vice President, Account Director

Publicis Health · Chicago, IL, USA ·

Job type:
Full Time

EVP, Business Lead At Publicis Health, we believe keeping the world healthy is our most extraordinary social endeavor. As part of Publicis Groupe and built on the world's foremost intelligence platform, we create sharper, more memorable, and valuable brands for better outcomes. We Make Health Happen.
The EVP, Business Lead is accountable for the overall health, growth, and performance of a significant portfolio of client businesses, typically comprising two or more client relationships and approximately $30M in revenue. The role serves as the senior business leader across the portfolio, ensuring strong client engagement and satisfaction, sustainable organic growth, financial performance, integrated delivery, and healthy, high-performing teams.
Responsibilities include:
Know Your Business: Maintain a comprehensive understanding of each client's business, strategic priorities, market dynamics, organizational environment, financial outlook, and evolving needs.
Drive Growth: Own the organic growth agenda across the portfolio, ensuring each client business has a clear, actionable growth plan.
Own the Value: Own the total financial performance of the portfolio, including revenue, organic growth, profitability, forecasting, staffing, investment, and financial risk.
Activate the Network: Align senior Account, Project Management, Strategy, Creative, Medical, Media, Data, Technology, and other capability leaders around the needs of each client business.
Build Trust and Influence: Serve as the senior executive relationship leader across the portfolio and maintain direct engagement with the most senior and strategically important client stakeholders.
Invest in People: Own the overall talent health of the portfolio, ensuring each client business has the leadership, capabilities, capacity, and continuity required to deliver and grow.
Qualifications typically include 18+ years of progressive leadership experience across complex client businesses, portfolios, and integrated organizations, with demonstrated scope and capability taking precedence over tenure alone.
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.