Group Business Director (Healthcare)

Location: Brooklyn, NY, United States

Salary: $175,000–$210,000 annually for NY/CA; compensation may vary by hiring location.

Company

hirify.global represents Translation, a creative solutions company helping brands use culture, technology, and storytelling to drive growth, alongside a software and services platform for independent creators.

What you will do

• Own the health, growth, and performance of an Eli Lilly portfolio across brands and workstreams.
• Set portfolio priorities, develop growth plans, strengthen senior client relationships, and advise VP- and SVP-level marketing stakeholders.
• Guide Strategy, Context, Creative, and Analytics toward culturally relevant, insight-led healthcare communications aligned with medical, legal, and regulatory guidance.
• Co-own financial performance, including resource allocation, profitability, forecasting, scopes, fees, and investment recommendations.
• Lead, coach, and develop Business Directors and Business Supervisors while establishing accountability and development pathways.
• Align staffing, scope, schedules, feasibility, and delivery across Program Management, Strategy, Context, Creative, Production, and agency partners.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in an agency or communications-related industry, including marketing, media, creative, production, and agency finance.
• Proven success leading a portfolio of businesses or a complex multi-brand client relationship with responsibility for financial performance and organic growth at a scale comparable to $6M–$10M+ in annual agency revenue.
• Experience advising VP- and SVP-level marketing clients and making consequential business decisions with limited executive oversight.
• Experience managing and developing senior account or Business Leadership talent.
• Experience leading integrated, multi-channel campaigns and large-scale production.
• Strong business judgment, strategic fluency, executive presence, communication skills, commercial acumen, and the ability to navigate difficult conversations.
• Ability to champion integrated creative work while respecting accuracy and medical, legal, and regulatory review requirements.
• Decisive, curious leadership style focused on developing other leaders and building accountability and collaboration.

Nice to have

• Experience with pharmaceutical, healthcare, or other regulated brands and medical, legal, and regulatory review; direct pharma experience is a plus, not a requirement.
• Experience with consumer health communications, patient storytelling, brand launches, culturally relevant campaigns, talent partnerships, social content, or experiential work.
• Experience partnering with in-house creative teams and working in a multi-agency environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Entrepreneurial environment that values resourcefulness, tenacity, creativity, and intelligence.
• Benefits and additional rewards may include bonuses, stock options, and a 401(k) match.
• Salary decisions consider qualifications, experience, skill set, internal equity, and hiring location.
• Backed by Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, and Apple.