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. Powered by more than 8,000 healthcare communications, data, and medical specialists, our global agency collective is at the heart of international health communications. 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 maintaining a comprehensive understanding of each client's business, strategic priorities, market dynamics, organizational environment, financial outlook, and evolving needs. The EVP anticipates business risks and opportunities, aligns senior agency and capability leaders around client priorities, and makes the portfolio-level decisions and trade-offs required to deliver long-term value for clients, talent, and the agency.
The EVP drives growth by owning the organic growth agenda across the portfolio, ensuring each client business has a clear, actionable growth plan. They establish clear financial and commercial expectations for each client business and hold business leaders accountable for delivering against them. The EVP also aligns senior Account, Project Management, Strategy, Creative, Medical, Media, Data, Technology, and other capability leaders around the needs of each client business.
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. Significant experience leading multiple client relationships or a substantial portfolio with enterprise-level financial, commercial, talent, and growth accountability is required.
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.

Executive Vice President, Account Director
Team One · Chicago, IL, USA ·
- Job type:
- Full Time