Account Director, Marketing

About JPA Health

JPA Health is a fully integrated marketing, communications and medical communications agency for clients ranging from emerging biotech to established pharmaceutical companies and public health organizations. We work exclusively within the health sector. We share our clients’ commitment to making people healthier. In fact, some might say we are obsessed with improving and protecting lives. Check out our sizzle reel!

The Role

PA Health is seeking an Account Supervisor / Account Director, Marketing to help shape the next generation of modern marketing for life sciences. This role sits at the center of our growing Marketing practice where data fluency, creative storytelling, and omnichannel orchestration come together to help clients build trust, drive behavior change, and accelerate growth. The ideal candidate is an entrepreneurial thinker and strong collaborator who is comfortable discussing strategy with clients, managing integrated campaigns, and identifying new ways to add value.

You are energized by the science, passionate about purpose, and thrive in the fast-evolving intersection of health, technology, and creativity.

This position is a full-time, hybrid role reporting to any one of JPA Health’s offices (Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, DC, New York City) two days per week and working remotely three days per week.

The Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will, serve as an integral member of the Life Sciences Marketing team and will:

• Lead and elevate client engagement. Serve as the primary day-to-day contact, ensuring excellence in delivery and alignment with client goals across marketing strategy, campaign development, and execution.
• Translate insights into action. Partner with strategy, creative, integrated intelligence, research, and engagement teams to bring forward insight driven recommendations that inform channel mix, and audience experience.
• Drive innovation within accounts. Leverage our proprietary platforms and integrated capabilities across our Life Sciences, Public Health, and Gov practices to solve client’s challenges.
• Oversee integrated campaigns. Engagement across HCP, patient, and consumer audiences, including market and launch readiness, omnichannel activation, and sales force support.
• Own financial performance. Work with the project management team to ensure scope management, efficient resource allocation, budget oversight, and financial accuracy.
• Support new business and organic growth efforts contributing to proposal, presentation, case study development, and storytelling.
• Mentor and develop junior staff. Foster curiosity, accountability, and collaboration aligned with JPA’s values.
• Champion best practices. Advocate for consistency, innovation, and cross-discipline integration within the Life Sciences Marketing team and across the agency.

About You

You’ll thrive in this role and at JPA Health if you are:

• Strategic and curious, with the ability to connect insights with actionable marketing solutions.
• Digitally fluent, experienced in orchestrating campaigns across platforms (paid, owned, earned, shared) and comfortable with performance measurement and optimization.
• A natural integrator, respectfully collaborating across disciplines and teams to bring ideas to life.
• A trusted partner, skilled at building relationships with clients, understanding their business, and proactively anticipating their needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.

• 4-6 years of prior agency experience in healthcare marketing.

• Experience leading integrated, omnichannel campaigns.

• Proven understanding of pharmaceutical, biotech, or medical device marketing as well as Medical, Regulatory, and Legal considerations.

• Understanding and application of engagement strategies for HCP and DTC audiences.

• Exceptional communication, organization, and project management skills.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

What Makes Us Different

JPA Health offers you the opportunity to work with purpose as you achieve extraordinary results for our clients. You will elevate your career in an environment that thrives at the intersection of wellness, connection, and compassion. Our mission to help people live healthier lives begins with you.

Our approach prioritizes compassion to ensure you and your family flourish. We promote flexibility with adaptable work arrangements for a balanced personal and professional life. Our Collaboration Days are designed to strengthen relationships and enhance well-being. Respect, inclusion, camaraderie, and connection – this is the heart of our agency’s ethos. We elevate each other. We work collaboratively. And we push ourselves to think bigger.

In addition, JPA Health offers:

• Paid time off when you need it most: 20 days PTO, 10 holidays, Sabbatical, bereavement & compassion leave, parental leave, civic duty, volunteer time and year-end office closure.
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn Learning, internal webinars through JPA’s Elevate Institute, tuition reimbursement, paid professional development, and paid learning and development time.
• An impressive and comprehensive benefits package that supports you and your family’s physical, mental and financial well-being.
• Competitive pay and opportunities to advance. The anticipated starting pay for this role is between $125,000 and $145,000 annually, based on a variety of factors including but not limited to experience, qualifications, and location. You may also be eligible for performance-based bonuses. We review compensation annually and evaluate readiness for promotions every quarter.

At JPA Health, we are committed to fostering a culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). We believe that our strength lies in the diversity of our team, and we strive to create an environment where every individual feels valued, respected, and heard. We are dedicated to promoting equity in all aspects of our work, ensuring that all employees have equal access to opportunities and resources. We are inclusive, welcoming individuals of all races, genders, sexual orientations, religions, national origins, disabilities, and ages. Our commitment to DEI extends beyond our organization, influencing the work we do and the partnerships we build. We believe that by embracing DEI, we can drive innovation, enhance our services, and contribute to a healthier society.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. If you require an accommodation in order to apply for a position with JPA Health, please contact us for assistance at Recruiting@jpa.com.