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# Account Director at Ogilvy Health Canada

- **Company:** Ogilvy Health Canada
- **Location:** Toronto, Canada
- **Compensation:** $90k–$140k
- **Posted:** 2026-08-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyhealthcanada/jobs/4723948005

## Job description

About Ogilvy Health:

Ogilvy Health is focused on driving superior outcomes in the ever-changing healthcare environment, an increasingly complex and evolving marketplace. We inspire brands and people to impact the world by keeping our audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint. Ogilvy Health delivers insight, creativity, innovation, and engagement solutions for all healthcare stakeholders, patients, and consumers across the healthcare continuum. Through borderless creativity—operating, innovating, and creating at the intersection of talent and capabilities—Advertising, Experience, Public Relations, Health, and Consulting work fluidly across 131 offices in 93 countries to bring forth world-class creative solutions for our clients.

For more information on us, visit [OgilvyHealth.com](https://ogilvyhealth.com/), or follow Ogilvy Health Canada on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ogilvy-health-canada/mycompany/).

About the Role:

The Account Director is a senior Account Management partner responsible for the overall client relationship for their Accounts. Account Directors are the client's strategic partner. They listen to client needs and challenges, become experts in the client's therapeutic area and make strategic and tactical recommendations to help the client's business thrive. Account Directors put the framework in place to drive results for campaigns—from briefing copywriters and designers, managing budgets to analyzing market research metrics to optimize at next opportunity—ensuring smooth production and rollout. Account Directors must be leaders within the internal agency team to both Account and Creative sides as well as to Client teams.

Account Directors oversee a team and are responsible in ensuring their individual performance as well as mentoring them in their professional growth. In addition, Account Directors are responsible for delivering on and surpassing client expectations, profitability, organic growth and take an active part in new business development.

## What You’ll Do

- Develop the Account team creatively and financially and play a positive role in new business development
- Drive the client partnership and align agency resources around client priorities
- Understand client objectives and strategic imperatives and effectively communicate their needs to the internal team
- Lead the development of the overall communication strategy and tactical plans, based on a strong understanding of the client's context (TA, business type, corporate priorities & processes)
- Oversee the client relationship, ensuring the team is proactively selling new projects and project delivery exceeds client expectations
- Manage profitability of client and tracking vs Agency projections
- Balance the expectations of clients with the execution of creative work
- Develop internal business planning processes that drive tight alignment and collaboration across multiple stakeholders
- Lead the team to provide the utmost level of client service and quality of work
- In-depth review of content versus client strategy
- Lead creative brief development in partnership with cross-functional team
- Liaise with clients and cross-functional teams at a senior level
- Promote the expansion of business with existing clients
- Complete projects to a specific schedule and within an agreed budget
- Use your skills to push clients and the agency creatively and strategically
- Lead Client Strategic Consulting for client growth, in partnership with Senior Account Director or Group Account Director and cross-functional team
- Guide and oversee the growth and development of Senior Account Managers and Account Supervisors as appropriate

## What You’ll Need

- Persuasive and confident approach to creative and strategic mandates
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Effective team management capabilities
- A keen attention to detail and budgetary restraints
- Full awareness of creative processes and techniques, including digital platforms
- Outstanding project management, organization, and prioritization abilities
- Have a passion for the Advertising industry and Agency business
- Working knowledge of all media (print, TV, radio and digital)
- For Canadian Accounts: PAAB and ASC experience and negotiation skills
- Critical thinker with ability to analyze and synthesize data and information
- Self-motivator, willingness to stay up to date in a fast-paced environment, engagement, and persistence
- Experience in building estimates and managing project profitability
- Results-oriented and proactive, with a 'can-do' spirit that thrives on not just meeting, but consistently exceeding expectations, adeptly managing deadlines and proactively resolving challenges. Able to work independently and to take ownership while being a team player and mindful of others (partnership attitude)
- Financial management abilities
- To enjoy listening, thinking, researching, learning, and adding value
- To apply the Company’s ideals to all decision-making business approaches

## How We’ll Support You

At Ogilvy, our people are at the heart of what we do: a creative agency that sparks game-changing ideas across culture and business through collaboration, integrity, and a celebration of self-expression.

The base salary range for this position at the time of this posting is indicated below. Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications.

Salary Range $90,000—$140,000 CAD

## About Ogilvy Health Canada

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ogilvy Health Canada is a specialized healthcare communications agency that delivers brand-building, medical education, and customer engagement solutions for pharmaceutical and healthcare clients as part of the global Ogilvy network.
- **Entity Type**: Division of a Public Company (parent WPP plc; NYSE: WPP)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (with a second office in Montreal, QC)
- **Founded**: 1948 (parent Ogilvy founded by David Ogilvy; Canadian health practice established later)
- **Founders**: David Ogilvy (founder of Ogilvy)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare advertising and marketing communications
- **Target customers**: B2B – pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, healthcare organizations (HCP, patient, and payer audiences)
- **Mission**: “To inspire brands and people to impact the world” by keeping audiences’ health and wellness needs at the center of every touchpoint.

## Products & Services
- **Brand Development & Promotion**: Full-service creative strategy, HCP and consumer promotion, and brand planning.
- **Medical Education (MedEd)**: Scientific content development and continuing medical education (CME) programs.
- **Data, Intelligence & Strategy**: Data-driven insights, market research, and analytics to inform campaign strategy.
- **PR, Social & Influence**: Public relations, social media management, and influencer programs tailored to healthcare.
- **Experience & Innovation**: Digital transformation, customer experience design, and omni-channel engagement.
- **Market Access & Payer**: Communication strategies to support pricing, reimbursement, and market access.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (part of WPP, which has a market cap of ~£8B as of mid-2025)
- **Key Metric**: Revenue is not publicly disclosed for the Canada entity; LinkedIn reports 34 employees as of June 2025
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Parent company WPP; clients include major pharmaceutical companies
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount declined ~27% YoY (from ~47 to 34); recent hiring activity for Account Manager, CME positions suggests selective growth in medical education

## Competitive Advantages
- **Global network leverage**: Access to Ogilvy’s worldwide resources, proprietary tools, and cross-market expertise.
- **Deep healthcare specialization**: Decades of experience navigating regulatory environments and delivering compliant, impactful campaigns.
- **Integrated service mix**: Combines creative, medical, PR, digital, and data capabilities under one roof, reducing need for multiple agency partners.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: The agency is actively exploring how artificial intelligence can transform pharma marketing, with internal initiatives and client-facing pilots (see LinkedIn posts on AI in pharma advertising).
- **Digital transformation**: Emphasis on new delivery models and ways of working to unlock the promise of AI and improve outcomes.
- **Talent retention and diversity**: Continued investment in employee development and inclusive culture to attract and retain top talent.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Ogilvy positions itself as a “people-first” company with a focus on continuous learning, career growth, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Employee resource groups like RedLotus, Black Diaspora, and Pride support belonging.
- **Work model**: Hybrid presence expected in Toronto and Montreal offices; specific remote policy not publicly detailed.
- **Perks**: Part of a global creative network with opportunities for cross-border collaboration; emphasis on mentorship and professional development.
- **Engineering/creative environment**: Creative teams account for 66% of staff (Marketing 49%, Design 17%), with directors and specialists making up the majority of roles.

## Sources
1. [LinkedIn – Ogilvy Health Canada](https://ca.linkedin.com/company/ogilvy-health-canada)
2. [Ogilvy Canada Careers Page](https://www.ogilvy.com/ca/careers)
3. [Ogilvy Canada About Page](https://www.ogilvy.com/ca/about)
4. [Ogilvy Health Global Site](https://www.ogilvyhealth.com/)
5. [Greenhouse Careers – Ogilvy Health Canada](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/ogilvyhealthcanada)

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