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From the employer's careers site First seen 3 Nov 2026

Senior Strategy Leader

Salary

$99,000 - $275,600 per year

Apply on Purplemoon, an IQVIA Business

Description

Purplemoon, an IQVIA company, is seeking a Senior Strategy Leader to lead strategic planning and brand development for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and healthcare clients.

The Senior Strategy Leader will serve as a trusted advisor, business partner, and strategic leader, helping clients translate scientific innovation, market insights, and customer needs into impactful commercial strategies and communication programs.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop brand positioning, value propositions, messaging frameworks, and integrated communications strategies across the product lifecycle.
  • Translate market research, clinical data, customer insights, competitive intelligence, and healthcare trends into actionable business recommendations.
  • Lead strategic planning for pre-launch, launch, and post-launch brands.
  • Develop customer-centric strategies for healthcare professionals, patients, caregivers, payers, and other key stakeholders.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure strategic alignment and execution excellence.
  • Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior client stakeholders.
  • Design and facilitate workshops, advisory boards, strategic planning sessions, and executive presentations.
  • Build and strengthen long-term client partnerships.
  • Provide thought leadership on industry trends, commercialization strategies, customer engagement, and market evolution.
  • Identify opportunities to expand client engagements and deliver additional value.
  • Collaborate closely with Account, Creative, Medical, Analytics, and Consulting teams.
  • Establish strategic planning standards, frameworks, and best practices.
  • Mentor and develop Strategy team members.
  • Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
  • Support talent development and organizational growth initiatives.
  • Support new business opportunities, proposal development, and agency pitches.
  • Contribute to thought leadership, industry presentations, and strategic innovation initiatives.
  • Identify emerging healthcare trends and market opportunities.
  • Drive the development of new capabilities that strengthen Purplemoon and IQVIA's market position.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Life Sciences, Communications, Healthcare Administration, or a related field.
  • Advanced degree such as an MBA, MPH, Master's, or PhD preferred.
  • 10+ years of experience within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare consulting, healthcare communications, or healthcare advertising environments.
  • Extensive experience in brand strategy, communications planning, commercialization, and product launches.
  • Experience supporting rare disease, specialty therapeutics, biotechnology, oncology, or other complex healthcare categories preferred.
  • Strong client leadership, presentation, facilitation, and storytelling skills.
  • Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional teams.
  • Exceptional analytical, strategic thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.

The potential base pay range for this role, when annualized, is $99,000.00 - $275,600.00.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

  • rare disease and specialty pharmaceutical strategy
  • omnichannel and customer engagement planning
  • market research and customer insights
  • launch readiness and commercialization strategy
  • healthcare advertising or healthcare communications agency experience
  • global and multi-market pharmaceutical experience

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://iqvia.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/IQVIA/job/Montclair-New-Jersey-United-States-of-America/Senior-Strategy-Leader_R1564943-1

Apply on Purplemoon, an IQVIA Business