US Media Client Director - Life Sciences
Liberty Hive · New York metropolitan area, PA
FULL-TIME
Posted Sep 7, 2026
Job Description
Client Director, Media
New York (Hybrid) $180,000 - $220,000 per year
Essential to this Role:
- 10+ years working in client-side, agency, or consulting roles, strong knowledge of the marketing and advertising agency industries
- 5+ years' experience in the Life Sciences vertical
- Deep understanding of the role and influence of media in driving value and impact
Liberty Hive is recruiting on behalf of our client, a global, independent marketing advisory, for a Client Director, Media to join their fast-growing Client Solutions team in New York.
The Opportunity
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and to play a key part in the Client Solutions function. The role offers an ambitious individual valuable experience for progression and development.
The Company
Our client is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. They help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale, with an ambition to define and own an entirely new category, recognized as the world's most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor.
They do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect: it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust to enable unified marketing intelligence. The business is designed around how it helps marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), and measurement and effectiveness (Science), with a proven track record supporting large, complex organizations across multiple simultaneous projects.
Our client has over 200 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.
The Role
This role is based in New York and will report into the US VP, Client Solutions (Media). It will play a key leadership role for clients, leading and generating new business across:
- Organisation: e.g. media operating model and organisation design
- Ecosystem: e.g. helping marketers select their agency partners and other vendors
- Accountability: e.g. analysing agency and campaign data to track and improve performance
The role will involve:
- Advising clients on their internal and external media operating model (capabilities, partners, processes, tools)
- Leading day-to-day client relationships, ensuring client contacts are engaged with regularly, on both live projects and broader industry topics
- Analysing and challenging client problems, turning ambiguous issues into actionable solutions, both within and outside of defined scopes
- Creating and shaping core client deliverables — workshop materials, industry POVs, pitch briefs, diagnostic assessments and client-ready recommendations — with a bias for originality and critical thinking
- Working hands-on with cross-functional teams to design and deliver high quality outputs (leading and driving the team, not just coordinating it)
- Ensuring project plans are in place, status calls are scheduled, team members are properly briefed, and meetings are documented and actioned
- Anticipating, raising and resolving issues with key client/agency contacts on timelines, deliverables, or relationships
- Leading operational aspects of client relationships (proposals, fees, contracts, NDAs, invoicing schedules)
- Supporting and training junior team members
- Promoting other services to clients/targets, and participating in new business pitches
- Contributing to the continuous updating of the business's library of services and credentials
The Candidate
- 10-12+ years of experience in marketer, agency, consulting, or adtech roles with strong knowledge across the marketing and advertising world
- 5+ years' experience in the Life Sciences vertical
- Deep understanding of the role and influence of media in driving value and impact for the modern marketing organization
- Self-starter: motivated to join a growing company, thrives under pressure
- Relationship management: able to build and lead client relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple functions
- Stakeholder management: comfortable working with senior leaders and strong personalities
- Communication: able to simplify the complex and inspire action; a confident presenter
- Negotiation skills: thoughtful and measured, able to balance multiple variables
- Leadership: able to motivate and lead internal teams on shared client challenges
- Intellectual curiosity: inquisitive by nature, approaching all tasks with curiosity and enthusiasm
What's on Offer
- Hybrid working
- 20 days holiday per year, up to a maximum of 24 (with length of service) in addition to federal holidays
- Work from any location in the world for up to 4 weeks per year
- 10 days Annual Leave Purchase per year
- Charity day
- Day off for your birthday
- Frequent social events
- Summer hours (amended working pattern)
- Company bonus scheme
- Private Medical, Dental and Vision
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Bonus
- New Business Bonus
- Competitive salary of $180,000 - $220,000 per year
New York (Hybrid) $180,000 - $220,000 per year
Essential to this Role:
- 10+ years working in client-side, agency, or consulting roles, strong knowledge of the marketing and advertising agency industries
- 5+ years' experience in the Life Sciences vertical
- Deep understanding of the role and influence of media in driving value and impact
Liberty Hive is recruiting on behalf of our client, a global, independent marketing advisory, for a Client Director, Media to join their fast-growing Client Solutions team in New York.
The Opportunity
This is an outstanding opportunity to join a growing global integrated marketing advisory and to play a key part in the Client Solutions function. The role offers an ambitious individual valuable experience for progression and development.
The Company
Our client is a global, independent advisor that brings the clarity, connection and confidence modern marketers need to fuel growth. They help marketers eliminate waste and maximize the impact of their most significant investments at scale, with an ambition to define and own an entirely new category, recognized as the world's most trusted, independent and impactful marketing advisor.
They do this by elevating how clients operate, how agencies deliver, how platforms perform, and how all parts of the ecosystem connect: it takes alignment, intelligence, and trust to enable unified marketing intelligence. The business is designed around how it helps marketers optimize and transform through best-in-class structure and governance (Organization), partners and platforms (Ecosystem), and measurement and effectiveness (Science), with a proven track record supporting large, complex organizations across multiple simultaneous projects.
Our client has over 200 employees across London, New York, Singapore and New Delhi.
The Role
This role is based in New York and will report into the US VP, Client Solutions (Media). It will play a key leadership role for clients, leading and generating new business across:
- Organisation: e.g. media operating model and organisation design
- Ecosystem: e.g. helping marketers select their agency partners and other vendors
- Accountability: e.g. analysing agency and campaign data to track and improve performance
The role will involve:
- Advising clients on their internal and external media operating model (capabilities, partners, processes, tools)
- Leading day-to-day client relationships, ensuring client contacts are engaged with regularly, on both live projects and broader industry topics
- Analysing and challenging client problems, turning ambiguous issues into actionable solutions, both within and outside of defined scopes
- Creating and shaping core client deliverables — workshop materials, industry POVs, pitch briefs, diagnostic assessments and client-ready recommendations — with a bias for originality and critical thinking
- Working hands-on with cross-functional teams to design and deliver high quality outputs (leading and driving the team, not just coordinating it)
- Ensuring project plans are in place, status calls are scheduled, team members are properly briefed, and meetings are documented and actioned
- Anticipating, raising and resolving issues with key client/agency contacts on timelines, deliverables, or relationships
- Leading operational aspects of client relationships (proposals, fees, contracts, NDAs, invoicing schedules)
- Supporting and training junior team members
- Promoting other services to clients/targets, and participating in new business pitches
- Contributing to the continuous updating of the business's library of services and credentials
The Candidate
- 10-12+ years of experience in marketer, agency, consulting, or adtech roles with strong knowledge across the marketing and advertising world
- 5+ years' experience in the Life Sciences vertical
- Deep understanding of the role and influence of media in driving value and impact for the modern marketing organization
- Self-starter: motivated to join a growing company, thrives under pressure
- Relationship management: able to build and lead client relationships with senior stakeholders across multiple functions
- Stakeholder management: comfortable working with senior leaders and strong personalities
- Communication: able to simplify the complex and inspire action; a confident presenter
- Negotiation skills: thoughtful and measured, able to balance multiple variables
- Leadership: able to motivate and lead internal teams on shared client challenges
- Intellectual curiosity: inquisitive by nature, approaching all tasks with curiosity and enthusiasm
What's on Offer
- Hybrid working
- 20 days holiday per year, up to a maximum of 24 (with length of service) in addition to federal holidays
- Work from any location in the world for up to 4 weeks per year
- 10 days Annual Leave Purchase per year
- Charity day
- Day off for your birthday
- Frequent social events
- Summer hours (amended working pattern)
- Company bonus scheme
- Private Medical, Dental and Vision
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee Referral Bonus
- New Business Bonus
- Competitive salary of $180,000 - $220,000 per year
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
Additional Details
- City
- New York metropolitan area
- State
- Pennsylvania
- Country
- US
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