Wildtype · 8 hours ago
VP, Brand Strategy
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff, Director/Executive
$180K/yr - $190K/yr
5+ years expWildtype is an Agile full-service agency in healthcare that emphasizes creativity and disruption. They are seeking a VP of Brand Strategy to drive innovative solutions, build strong client relationships, and mentor junior strategists to foster a culture of growth and engagement.
AgTechBiotechnologyFood and BeverageFood ProcessingSeafood
Responsibilities
Contribute to a culture that grows and motivates colleagues and clients to adopt Disruption and new methodologies uncovered as central to brand efforts
Manage and mentor junior strategists to foster engagement through learning and development that leads to career growth
Develop meaningful and productive senior client relationships to ensure strategic recommendations exceed expectations
Help create and facilitate agency and client ideation sessions. Must be able to employ Disruption and other facilitation session tools
Be a methodological and analytical leader in driving client and agency research through new ways of gaining insight into our brands
Contribute to and lead various aspects of Disruption Live by finding trending topics and monitoring macro-trends in culture
Work with account and creative managers to create brand positioning, Disruption roadmaps, and creative briefs
Facilitate efforts at generating insights from a variety of data sources to ensure development of Disruptive creative and brand ideas
Contribute to new business pitches by managing customer insight generation, which is tied to pitch product clinical data
Interview target prospects to generate pitch content and story flow from findings
Attend live pitch presentations and act as authority within the opportunity
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years' prior work experience, preferably in an agency environment (pharmaceutical experience highly desired)
General computer proficiency
Prior internal team and brand strategy experience
Research/data focus
Independence
Patience, confidence, and leadership
Creativity and strategic agility
Oratory talent, verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to command a room
Sound judgment and discretion for conflict resolution
Company
Wildtype
Wildtype is a cellular agriculture company that develops technology for cultivating seafood.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$123.49MKey Investors
SK HoldingsL CattertonSpark Capital
2022-11-25Corporate Round· $7.49M
2022-02-22Series B· $100M
2019-10-08Series A· $12.5M
Leadership Team
Justin Kolbeck
Co-Founder and CEO
Arye Elfenbein
Co-Founder at Wildtype
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