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    Strategy Director - Chicago, United States - CG Life

    CG Life
    CG Life Chicago, United States

    2 weeks ago

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    Job Description

    The Strategy Director leads strategic initiative development and implementation for our clients in the life sciences, biopharma, and healthcare industries. In this role, this team member is key in strengthening client relationships by leveraging industry expertise to provide guidance and drive impactful strategic solutions. A key focus of this role is ensuring market differentiation, customer relevance, and consistency of voice across all channels of communication.

    The ideal candidate is motivated by the challenge of generating compelling narratives that differentiate our clients' brands, products, and services. In addition, the Strategy Director works with other departments to develop, enable, and advocate positioning and communication structures for client communications. This includes ensuring market differentiation, customer relevance, and a consistent voice across all communication channels through creative campaigns, messaging, content, public relations, sales collateral, and corporate communications.

    Key Responsibilities, including but not limited to:

    Business Impact

    • Identifies opportunities and cross-sells our capabilities to new and current clients
    • Collaborates closely with other department leads to research, build, enable, and advocate for positioning and communication structures that form the basis for client communication efforts
    • Determines with the account team the client's offerings, strategic direction, and how to guide them toward achieving their goals
    • Secures strategic initiatives with new and existing clients by developing and/or reviewing new business proposals and presentations
    • Responsible for organic growth initiatives/opportunities, financial or otherwise, on a defined industry segment or client portfolio while meeting/exceeding revenue goals
    • Establishes the agency's role as a trusted and strategic-minded partner while managing the day-to-day client strategy and relationship for multiple accounts

    Industry Expertise

    • Serves as an agency consultant on positioning, analytics, internal engagement, communications strategy, creative brief development, and brand planning
    • Provides guidance, when appropriate, to internal teams based on the strategy, brief, and knowledge of the client and its industry
    • Develops strategy decks and other relevant outputs based on discovery activities and other client-provided background documents
    • Leads client workshops and discovery sessions (onsite or online) with the account team
    • Stays current on evolving platforms, trends, and implications for client strategies

    Leadership

    • Creates and directs innovative strategic solutions to complex communication challenges on behalf of clients
    • Participates and facilitates with the account team yearly planning efforts for clients
    • Works with internal teams to develop compelling, single-minded strategies and briefs
    • Develops proactive recommendations with the account team based on discovery findings, client intentions, and key audience insights, then validates positions through customers and internal stakeholder testing (as needed)
    • Leads client meetings and presentations on key stakeholder interview findings, competitive audit findings, positioning, and/or communication strategy

    People Management

    • Responsible for managing and mentoring other strategy team members
    • Monitors the progress of direct reports and stays involved with their development by being a good source of feedback, guidance, and encouragement

    Reports To: Senior Vice President of Strategy

    Requirements

    Qualifications and Skills:

    • Ability to identify and pursue growth opportunities to expand strategic services to clients
    • Strong leadership and team management skills
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
    • Demonstrated experience developing and implementing strategic communications programs in the healthcare and life sciences sectors to raise the visibility of brands, products, technologies, and client thought leaders
    • Experience with client-facing presence and interaction with C-Suite level

    What We will be Looking for:

    • 8-10 years of experience in strategic planning or brand management in pharma, med tech, life sciences, or healthcare agency or a similar healthcare/biopharma organization
    • Proven experience leading and managing teams, providing strategic direction, and fostering a collaborative environment
    • Experience building and maintaining strong client relationships, understanding client needs, and delivering strategic initiatives that exceed expectations
    • Experience driving strategic planning, thought leadership, and marketing approaches for life science or healthcare clients

    Benefits

    We are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to all of our employees:

    • Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance. We cover a generous portion of employee contributions.
    • 401K plan. We invest in present and future you, which is why we offer a generous match and immediate vesting on our plan.
    • Parental Leave. Generous paid time off for parents to bond with their newest addition.
    • Professional Development. Each employee has an annual budget to allocate to professional development opportunities. Employees are encouraged to take a workshop, attend a webinar, join associations, and do anything else that will help them grow in their careers.
    • Sabbatical Program. Enjoy 4 weeks of paid leave following 6 years of service to pursue travel, time with family, and drive in a new hobby; the options are endless
    • And more We offer life insurance, LTD, a robust employee assistance program, and more

    The salary range for this position is $115,000 - $130,000. Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position, market considerations, budgetary considerations, tenure, and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee's/applicant's background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

    This job posting is intended for direct applicants only; please, no outside recruiters.

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