Strategy Director Animal/Human Health

About the Position

Strategy Director Animal/Human Health - New Jersey

Orchard is seeking a Senior Strategy Director to partner with healthcare and animal health brands. You'll bridge business strategy and integrated execution, helping clients articulate and solve their most pressing problems.

Responsibilities

Strategy

• Partner with client marketing, digital, and commercial teams to diagnose underlying business and marketing challenges.
• Translate complex business priorities into focused strategic questions.
• Develop integrated strategies that bridge brand positioning, communications planning, content ecosystems, and digital experience.

Facilitation & Collaboration

• Design and lead workshops, working sessions, and strategy sprints with client stakeholders.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior client contacts (VP and C-suite level).
• Foster collaboration across agency disciplines, ensuring strategic thinking is embedded from the outset.

Leadership & Growth

• Contribute to new business efforts by shaping strategic approaches and leading pitches.
• Stay current with developments in the healthcare and animal health landscape.

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience working in a strategic/planning function, ideally within digital or creative agency.
• Healthcare or pharmaceutical advertising experience is essential; animal health experience is a plus.
• Mastery of strategic capability and a basic understanding of other forms of strategy.
• Track record of turning complex business problems into inspiring and effective solutions.
• Ability to work independently and make things happen without a large team.
• Flexibility for some AU time-zone crossover, some local US travel.
• Genuine curiosity about culture, people, technology, and what comes next.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a creative and collaborative environment.
• Potential for career growth and development.
• Be part of a company that values diversity and inclusion.

About the Company

At Orchard, we believe creativity and technology should work hand-in-hand to invent better outcomes. We’re Australia’s leading health and wellness agency, blending modern marketing with science and powered by deep digital experience. Our work wins effectiveness awards and, more importantly, creates meaningful change for patients, HCPs, and the brands we partner with.

We’re a fun, hardworking team that leaves egos at the door. Past that door? A collaborative studio filled with inspiring people, big ideas, and yes, free crumpets.

Orchard Marketing is part of the Enero Group. As a Group, we proudly acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we operate, the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. Our Innovate, Level 2, RAP endorsement aims to nurture, develop, encourage, and include Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander talent, partners, and advisors both in our own agency, and across the broader industry. As such, we encourage peoples of all backgrounds to apply.

If you feel like this is the right job for you, would like to take your career to the next level, work in a great cultural environment that allows you to grow and enjoy work, please email your CV and contact details to [email protected] and we will arrange to meet you.