[Hiring] Vice President, Pharma Media @MERGE

Role Description

As our Vice President, Pharma Media, you will:

• Lead client strategy and media delivery across one of our fastest-growing areas of pharmaceutical work.
• Drive HCP and DTC audience strategy, manage high-impact client relationships, and connect smart media choices directly to commercial outcomes.
• Bring agility to navigate a shifting ad-tech landscape, deep expertise to lead integrated media strategy, and humility to collaborate seamlessly alongside our internal specialists.

What You’ll Do

• Drive Strategic Growth: Lead media strategy and senior client relationships for complex pharma accounts, focusing on HCP audiences and integrated HCP/DTC programs.
• Shape Audience Strategy: Craft sophisticated audience strategies—including segmentation, channel roles, sequencing, and optimization—that turn client business goals into measurable media outcomes.
• Collaborate Across Practices: Partner with data and practice leads across Applied Intelligence, Discoverability, Programmatic, and Social to build fully integrated media plans.
• Expand Client Value: Identify opportunities to grow existing accounts by introducing MERGE’s differentiated offerings.
• Lead with Impact: Support new business pitches and mentor internal account/strategy teams.
• Stay Ahead of Trends: Maintain a strong pulse on emerging media channels, pharma marketing shifts, changing HCP behaviors, and evolving technology.

What Success Looks Like

You’ll help MERGE win and expand high-value pharmaceutical relationships by elevating our strategic media delivery.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of media experience with substantial expertise in pharma marketing and HCP strategy.
• Experience spanning both HCP and DTC—as well as oncology—is a major plus.

Requirements

• Stay continuously curious about the broader landscape—from AI and search to privacy and emerging channels.
• Understand how advanced data, patient-level insights, MMM, and attribution models strengthen media decisions.
• Thrive in cross-functional environments, collaborating without letting ego get in the way.
• Have strong commercial instincts for account growth and can distill complex media concepts into clear, persuasive stories.

Bonus Background

• Prior hands-on experience in programmatic, paid social, search, SEO/GEO, or executing integrated HCP/DTC oncology programs is valuable, though not required.

Location

This role may be based in any MERGE office location or performed remotely within the United States.

Benefits

• Meaningful Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance.
• 401K, Lifestyle Spending Account.
• Employer Paid Life & Disability Insurance.
• Flexible Time off & Holidays plus many other benefits and rewards.

Salary Range

The salary range for this role is $130,100 - 156,100, based on the individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors.

Company Description

At MERGE, we are a marketing and technology agency purpose-built for the intersection of health and wellness—where human impact matters most.

• We are united by our North Star: to unite people and brands to empower healthier, happier lives.
• We strive to create a superior work experience where talented and ambitious people grow.