VP, Engagement Strategy

BGBx
United States
On-site

Who this role is best for

Geared toward senior-level professionals comfortable with translating brand strategy into omnichannel engagement, with a focus on pharmaceutical and life sciences domains and cross-functional leadership.

Best fit for

  • Senior strategists with 10+ years in healthcare or pharmaceutical environments and a track record in omnichannel planning
    — “10+ years of relevant experience across engagement strategy, omnichannel strategy, experience planning, digital strategy, CRM strategy, integrated strategy, or related disciplines”
  • Candidates who have led complex engagement strategies and demonstrated strategic decision-making in high-stakes client settings
    — “Proven ability to lead complex engagement strategy from audience insight and problem definition through activation, measurement, and optimization”
  • Individuals with a background in shaping content and experience strategies for HCP and patient journeys
    — “Define how content, media, CRM, field, social, experiential, and digital interactions work together to move audiences toward desired behaviors”

Things to consider

  • Compensation is location-dependent, with adjustments for areas outside New York City
    — “compensation will be adjusted to reflect the applicable market for the employee's primary work location”
  • The role may require remote work within the United States, but not all locations are equal in terms of pay
    — “This position may be performed remotely within the United States”

How to stand out

  • Highlight examples of end-to-end omnichannel strategies you personally led in your resume and interview responses
    — “Candidates will be invited to discuss two anonymized examples of work they personally led, including one demonstrating end-to-end omnichannel strategy”
  • Emphasize your experience in shaping engagement architectures and defining channel roles
    — “Translate brand and business strategy into connected journeys, engagement architectures, channel roles, sequencing, triggers, and activation roadmaps”
  • Showcase your ability to make strategic trade-offs and focus investments on high-impact moments
    — “Make clear strategic choices and tradeoffs that focus investment on the moments and interactions most likely to create impact”
  • Demonstrate your fluency in personalization, marketing automation, and decisioning frameworks
    — “Fluency in how personalization, marketing automation, modular content, next-best action, and decisioning can support omnichannel engagement”
  • Demonstrate your capacity to lead executive-level strategic conversations and workshops
    — “Serve as a trusted strategic partner to senior clients and lead executive presentations, workshops, and high-stakes strategic conversations”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • Defined connected omnichannel strategies
  • Translated brand strategy into connected journeys
  • Led client and team from insight through activation
  • Grew BGBx's Engagement Strategy capability
Typical background
10+ years of experience in engagement strategy, omnichannel strategy, experience planning, digital strategy, CRM strategy, integrated strategy

Skills & requirements

Required

Brand StrategyOmnichannel StrategyAudience InsightBehavioral ScienceContent StrategyMedia StrategyCRM StrategyField EngagementDigital StrategyMeasurementOptimizationClient ManagementTeam Leadership

Preferred

Pharmaceutical ExperienceHealthcare ExperienceDigital MarketingData AnalysisPresentation SkillsWorkshop FacilitationStrategic Planning

Stack & domain

Audience-centered StrategyBehaviorally Informed Omnichannel StrategiesContent StrategyMedia StrategyCRM StrategyField EngagementDigital StrategyExperiential StrategyMeasurement And OptimizationClient LeadershipTeam LeadershipStrategic ThinkingCommunicationTeamworkLeadershipProblem-solvingDecision-makingHealthcarePharmaceuticalLife Science

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: $185,000 - $220,000 USD

BGBx is headquartered in New York City, and the salary range listed reflects the expected base compensation for this role in the New York City metropolitan area. This position may be performed remotely within the United States. For candidates located outside the New York City area, compensation will be adjusted to reflect the applicable market for the employee's primary work location. Final compensation will be determined based on geographic location, experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

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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