Group Account Supervisor - Pacific Communications Advertising
AbbVie
Summary
Pacific Communications, a division of AbbVie, is a full-service healthcare communications agency that partners with clients to launch and grow brands through innovative technology, marketing, and integrated communications solutions in both Therapeutic and Aesthetic business units.
Job description
As an Account Group Supervisor at Pacific Communications for Allergan, you'll provide strategic leadership across multiple brands, channels, or major client initiatives. You'll guide integrated communications strategies, oversee launches and complex programs, build senior-level client partnerships, manage account-level financial performance, and align teams across the agency. You'll also help develop senior account professionals and strengthen the agency's broader relationship with clients.
Core Responsibilities
- Lead integrated account and brand strategy
- Develop a deep understanding of assigned brands, disease states, products, audiences, competitors, and market dynamics
- Translate client objectives and market opportunities into integrated communications strategies, brand plans, critical issues, key strategic initiatives, creative platforms, and tactical recommendations across channels and brands
- Serve as the senior strategic client partner and primary agency contact for strategic questions, account priorities, and business guidance
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with key client stakeholders, including executive-level contacts
- Oversee major programs, launches, and communications initiatives including new product and indication launches, annual marketing plans, competitive initiatives, and major client programs
- Guide the development of meeting plans, agendas, content, workshops, mainstage presentations, field advisory boards, and other strategic communications activities
- Direct cross-functional agency collaboration and execution across Account Services, Creative, Production, Media, Public Relations, vendors, and other agency partners
- Lead strategic input and review meetings, align resources across workstreams, and ensure projects are executed on strategy, on time, within budget, and meet quality and review requirements
- Oversee account budgets and financial performance including annual budgets, estimates, expenditures, forecasts, and financial reporting across assigned brands
- Provide accurate financial information to clients and agency leadership, establish budget guidelines, identify risks, and recommend adjustments
- Lead and develop the account team by setting expectations, delegating responsibilities, and promoting accountability
- Manage Senior Account Executives, Account Executives, Account Supervisors, and other team members
- Foster collaboration, continuous improvement, and high-quality client service
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, communications, business, healthcare communications, or a related field, with 8 or more years of relevant agency, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or client-side experience
- Demonstrated ability to develop integrated communications strategies, brand plans, creative platforms, tactical recommendations, and launch plans across multiple brands or channels
- Proven success building trusted relationships with senior/executive-level clients, providing strategic counsel, managing expectations, and strengthening partnerships
- Ability to oversee complex, multi-workstream programs involving multiple agency disciplines, deliverables, timelines, budgets, review requirements, and external partners
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams, delegate effectively, and manage senior professionals
- Highly organized, adaptable, analytical, collaborative, and detail-oriented with strong judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to manage competing priorities and confidential information
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in advertising, marketing, communications, business, healthcare communications, or a related field
- 8 or more years of relevant agency, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or client-side experience
- Demonstrated ability to develop integrated communications strategies, brand plans, creative platforms, tactical recommendations, and launch plans across multiple brands or channels
- Proven success building trusted relationships with senior/executive-level clients
- Ability to oversee complex, multi-workstream programs involving multiple agency disciplines
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship-management skills
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage senior professionals
- Highly organized, adaptable, analytical, collaborative, and detail-oriented
Benefits
- Paid time off
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k)
- Long-term incentive programs
Company overview
AbbVie is a global biopharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, and markets advanced therapies for some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. Founded in 2013 as a spin-off from Abbott Laboratories, AbbVie has established itself as a leader in immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, and virology. The company's flagship product, Humira (adalimumab), was one of the world's top-selling drugs for treating autoimmune conditions like rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease. AbbVie maintains a robust pipeline of innovative medicines and has expanded its portfolio through strategic acquisitions, including Allergan in 2020. With research facilities across the United States and globally, AbbVie focuses on advancing science to improve patient outcomes while maintaining strong commercial operations worldwide. The company operates with a patient-centric approach and invests significantly in research and development to address unmet medical needs across multiple therapeutic areas.