VP, Media Group Lead

DescriptionThe Vice President, Media Group Lead is responsible for the health, growth, financial performance, and quality of a portfolio of client relationships within Evolvics. As the senior client relationship owner and primary point of escalation, this leader ensures that media strategy, communications planning, activation, operations, analytics, and data capabilities work together to deliver measurable client outcomes.The Media Group Lead owns the client business from both a relationship and commercial perspective, including scopes of work, account financials, profitability, forecasting, staffing, and organic growth. The role reports to the Managing Director, Evolvics and leads cross-functional teams through a matrixed operating model.Key Responsibilities * Serve as the overall leader for assigned client engagements, building trusted relationships with senior client, procurement, brand, and agency stakeholders. * Develop a deep understanding of each client's business, audiences, competitive environment, organizational dynamics, and evolving priorities. * Act as the primary escalation point and ensure the agency delivers one clear, connected point of view across strategy, planning, activation, analytics, and operations. * Own scopes of work, pricing, staffing, revenue, margin, profitability, utilization, and forecasting for the assigned book of business. * Balance client needs with commercial discipline, sustainable delivery, and adherence to scope. * Identify and convert organic growth opportunities by expanding relationships, capabilities, and services within existing clients. * Partner with Media Strategy to translate client objectives into actionable connections plans, channel recommendations, investment allocations, activation programs, and measurement approaches. * Maintain accountability for the quality, consistency, integration, and effectiveness of all client deliverables. * Lead cross-functional teams spanning communications planning, strategy, channel specialists, project management, operations, analytics, and AdTech and Data Quality. * Establish clear roles, decision rights, responsibilities, and escalation paths across the integrated client team. * Manage, mentor, and develop team members while promoting collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and high-quality client service. * Participate in new-business pitches, capability presentations, strategic workshops, and agency thought-leadership initiatives. * Encourage the effective use of emerging technologies, automation, and AI to improve productivity, decision-making, quality, and client value.Qualifications * 10+ years of experience in paid media, integrated media, client leadership, or a related discipline, including at least five years in a senior leadership capacity. * Demonstrated healthcare, pharmaceutical, life-sciences, or healthcare communications experience. * Proven success leading complex, cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization. * Experience managing senior client relationships and working with brand leadership, procurement, finance, and agency executives. * Strong understanding of integrated media strategy, communications planning, investment allocation, activation, optimization, analytics, and measurement. * Demonstrated financial acumen, including experience managing scopes, staffing, revenue, forecasting, margin, and profitability. * Track record of developing client relationships and generating sustainable organic growth. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, negotiation, presentation, and executive communication skills. * Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment; bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience.Key Competencies * Client stewardship * Commercial acumen * Integrated media leadership * Executive communication * Matrix collaboration * Talent development * Growth orientation * Adaptability and innovation