Senior Account Director
OLIXIR is a next‑generation healthcare agency, created by uniting FCB Health London and McCann Health London as part of Omnicom Health’s evolving European structure.
By bringing our teams together and combining our strengths, we’re building something entirely new: a more agile, more connected, and more ambitious partner for healthcare brands. OLIXIR blends award‑winning creative excellence with deep scientific expertise, strategic thinking that drives meaningful brand growth, and fully integrated production at scale. We’re also unlocking new innovation opportunities, powered by AI and future‑focused ways of working.
You’ll find the same trusted teams, the same high standards, and the same passion for creating work that makes a real difference to patients and healthcare professionals, alongside new possibilities to grow, innovate, and shape what’s next.
OLIXIR is built for the future of healthcare communications - and this is just the beginning.
Working closely with Business Unit Lead, you will lead the strategic development of the brand/s to deliver engaging and creative work for our clients, building strong partnerships with clients and deliver inspiring leadership for the team.
Client Management/Relationships:
Principal and strategic client business partner for designated clients
Continue to act as strategic client business partner, acting as their trusted advisor
Constantly look for ways to build and improve the client relationship (e.g. face-to-face meetings, value added projects)
Provide concrete understanding of client internal stakeholders, and partner with client on how to manage these relationships to deliver success
Confident in selling-in agency work
Proactively identify opportunities for agency partnerships across the network
Work with strategy and creative leads to provide proactive solutions to client challenges
Ensure you and your team are ahead of the client in terms of marketing, media, strategy, creative, data, and technology
Financials:
Alongside the Project Manager/Project Director, oversee forecasting and revenue, keeping senior leadership informed of any issues/significant changes
Ensure kick-off meeting is in place for all projects. Lead the meeting, providing clear direction and ensuring clarity on expectations, and R&Rs
Initiate ideas and creative solutions above and beyond what is being asked to solve client business challenges
Ensure wash-up is in place for all projects and learnings applied to future work
Attendance of weekly resource planning, helping PM to ensure all bookings are in place. Helping overcome issues/complications and escalating where necessary
Provide clear direction and inspiring leadership for designated accounts
Line Management and Team Development:
Line management of Business Coordinators (in conjunction with the Project Manager) and Account Managers
Start to work with the Business Director to manage team workflow, identifying areas of growth and opportunities
Conversant with and experienced in digital and integrated marketing. Conversant with ‘upstream’ pharma marketing disciplines and programmes such as market access, med ed and medcomms
Cross-medium creative awareness and understanding of new technologies
Demonstrable experience of building multi-layered client relationships and growing brands
Passionate about the healthcare sector and delivering high quality creative work
Excellent organisational skills and ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing