VP, Engagement Strategy

BGBx
Ontario, Canada
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior-level professionals in healthcare or pharmaceutical strategy who lead complex, cross-functional projects.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 10+ years in healthcare strategy and proven leadership in omnichannel campaigns
    — “10+ years of relevant experience across engagement strategy, omnichannel strategy, experience planning, digital strategy, CRM strategy, integrated strategy”
  • Individuals who have managed both HCP and patient engagement strategies with measurable impact
    — “Lead audience-centered, behaviorally informed omnichannel strategies across HCP, patient, caregiver, payer, and other stakeholder audiences”
  • Professionals with experience in translating brand strategy into activation roadmaps and measurement frameworks
    — “Translate brand and business strategy into connected journeys, engagement architectures, channel roles, sequencing, triggers, and activation roadmaps”

Things to consider

  • Candidates must be prepared to lead executive-level strategic discussions and high-stakes presentations
    — “Serve as a trusted strategic partner to senior clients and lead executive presentations, workshops, and high-stakes strategic conversations”
  • The role demands a deep understanding of pharmaceutical compliance and data privacy considerations
    — “Working knowledge of pharmaceutical regulatory, privacy, consent, and compliance considerations”

How to stand out

  • Showcase examples of end-to-end omnichannel strategies in your portfolio, especially with HCP and patient audiences
    — “Candidates will be invited to discuss two anonymized examples of work they personally led, including one demonstrating end-to-end omnichannel strategy”
  • Highlight experience in shaping content and experience strategies with clear roles and call-to-action elements
    — “Shape content and experience strategy so each interaction has a clear role, purpose, call to action, and connection to what happens next”
  • Demonstrate how you've used personalization and marketing automation to optimize engagement outcomes
    — “Fluency in how personalization, marketing automation, modular content, next-best action, and decisioning can support omnichannel engagement”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • defined and executed omnichannel strategies
  • led client engagements
  • mentored and developed team members
Typical background
10+ years in engagement strategy, omnichannel strategy, or related disciplines

Skills & requirements

Required

Brand StrategyOmnichannel StrategyClient LeadershipTeam ManagementProduct Vision

Preferred

Pharmaceutical Industry KnowledgeHealthcare Industry Knowledge

Stack & domain

Healthcare

About the role

Original posting from BGBx via Greenhouse

About Us

At BGBx, we're driven by a simple idea: breakthrough thinking creates breakthrough impact. As an independent commercial solutions partner to pharmaceutical and life science companies, we bring together strategists, scientists, communicators, creatives, technologists, and data experts to tackle some of healthcare's most important challenges. 

Our teams work across consulting and communications to help clients shape strategy, launch innovations, engage stakeholders, and drive meaningful results throughout the product lifecycle. The work is complex, fast-moving, and deeply connected to improving lives, creating opportunities for curious minds to make a real difference every day. 

If you're energized by collaboration, inspired by innovation, and motivated by work that matters, you'll find a place to grow, contribute, and make a meaningful impact at BGBx. 

Position Overview

The VP, Engagement Strategy turns brand strategy into connected omnichannel engagement. This senior leader defines how audience insight, behavioral science, content, media, CRM, field engagement, technology, and measurement work together across the customer journey. The VP leads clients and integrated teams from insight through activation and optimization, while helping grow BGBx's Engagement Strategy capability. 

Key Responsibilities  

Engagement & Omnichannel Strategy 

Lead audience-centered, behaviorally informed omnichannel strategies across HCP, patient, caregiver, payer, and other stakeholder audiences 

Translate brand and business strategy into connected journeys, engagement architectures, channel roles, sequencing, triggers, and activation roadmaps 

Define how content, media, CRM, field, social, experiential, and digital interactions work together to move audiences toward desired behaviors 

Make clear strategic choices and tradeoffs that focus investment on the moments and interactions most likely to create impact 

Audience, Content & Experience 

Turn research, segmentation, behavioral data, cultural context, and market dynamics into actionable audience understanding 

Identify the beliefs, motivations, barriers, decision pathways, and moments of receptivity that engagement must address 

Shape content and experience strategy so each interaction has a clear role, purpose, call to action, and connection to what happens next 

Maintain the strategic throughline as work moves from strategy into creative development, implementation, and optimization 

Measurement & Optimization 

Define engagement objectives, KPI frameworks, signal plans, and learning agendas 

Design closed-loop approaches that use customer response and performance data to improve content, channels, sequencing, and future engagement 

Turn performance findings into clear strategic implications and optimization recommendations 

Client, Growth & Team Leadership 

Serve as a trusted strategic partner to senior clients and lead executive presentations, workshops, and high-stakes strategic conversations 

Lead engagement and omnichannel strategy for pitches, organic growth opportunities, and capability development 

Manage, mentor, and develop strategists while raising the quality, consistency, and visibility of BGBx's Engagement Strategy offering 

Qualifications 

10+ years of relevant experience across engagement strategy, omnichannel strategy, experience planning, digital strategy, CRM strategy, integrated strategy, or related disciplines 

Significant pharmaceutical, healthcare, or life sciences experience, preferably in an agency, communications, or consulting environment 

Proven ability to lead complex engagement strategy from audience insight and problem definition through activation, measurement, and optimization 

Strong understanding of HCP and patient journeys and the strategic roles of media, CRM, digital, social, field engagement, data, analytics, experience design, and marketing technology 

Fluency in how personalization, marketing automation, modular content, next-best action, and decisioning can support omnichannel engagement 

Strong client leadership, facilitation, executive communication, and strategic storytelling skills 

Experience leading pitches, growing client relationships, and managing or developing strategists 

Working knowledge of pharmaceutical regulatory, privacy, consent, and compliance considerations 

Preferred Experience 

Experience across both HCP and patient engagement and across launch, growth, or mature brand challenges 

Experience translating global strategy into locally relevant engagement approaches 

Practical experience with advanced segmentation, dynamic personalization, closed-loop marketing, or AI-enabled planning and optimization 

Experience building or evolving an engagement, omnichannel, digital, or experience strategy capability 

Interview Process 

Candidates will be invited to discuss two anonymized examples of work they personally led, including one demonstrating end-to-end omnichannel strategy. We are most interested in problem framing, strategic choices, cross-functional leadership, measurement, and impact. Confidential client information and unpaid speculative work are not required.

Salary Range: $200,000 - $240,000 CAD

The salary range provided represents what a potential hire may expect to earn in this role at BGBx. Actual salary decisions will be influenced by several factors that we use to determine overall fit, including experience (both direct and indirect), education, training, demonstrated qualifications, and organizational need. Salary is only one component of the total rewards package offered at BGBx.

What We Offer

At BGBx, we invest in our people because exceptional talent drives exceptional work. We provide a competitive rewards package designed to support your health, well-being, professional growth, and life outside of work.

Our benefits package typically includes health care insurance, retirement plans, generous paid time off and holidays, wellness benefits, life insurance, learning and development opportunities, and other resources that support our employees throughout their careers.  Additional benefits may be available based on your location.  Beyond benefits, you'll find a culture built on collaboration, innovation, inclusion, and the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on healthcare and the people it serves.

BGBx is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status or any category or class of person protected by law. 

Source: BGBx careers (Greenhouse)

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