Communications Strategy Director

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$125K/yr – $150K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 3 days ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Own and lead strategic communications across major accounts, shaping campaign architecture, go-to-market programs, and guiding creative and client-facing work.

  • Own the overall strategy and messaging direction for key clients and pitches.
  • Drive workstreams from concept through proof, supporting creative excellence and client buy-in.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead communications strategy across major accounts.
  • Help shape everything from campaign architecture to tactical brief writing.
  • Define the behavior a brand needs to change.
  • Help a creative team make an idea bigger.
  • Help a client find the confidence to buy brave work.
  • Mentor junior strategists, develop thought leadership, refine how we work, uncover new opportunities for Comms Strategy across the agency, and shape where the discipline goes next.
  • Play a key role in new business efforts, bringing fresh thinking to pitches, helping shape the communications opportunity, and turning complex challenges into clear, inspiring narratives.
  • Partner with creatives from the earliest stages of development; fingerprints should be visible in the work.
  • You’ll be helping define go-to-market programs that maximize the impact of creative ideas.

Requirements

  • You think in people, not channels.
  • You understand what motivates people, what stands in their way, and what will move them to act before thinking about channels, formats, or tactics.
  • You can zoom in and zoom out.
  • One moment you're debating a business challenge with a brand strategy lead. The next, you're diving into creator selection, earned media extensions, TikTok mechanics, or OOH best practices.
  • You enjoy both.
  • You care about the work.
  • You don't disappear after your section of the deck is finished.
  • You stay involved.
  • You keep pushing.
  • You help make the work better.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Health & Wellness benefits
  • Leadership Benefits
  • Paid Time Off
  • 401K Retirement Savings Plan
  • Paid Parental Leave
Adelphi Group logo

Adelphi Group

The Adelphi provides a wide range of strategic support services and consulting for global pharmaceutical clients. Adelphi is dedicated to the healthcare sector, providing services across strategic marketing, marketing and business intelligence, real-world observational research and disease-specific programmes, health and economic outcomes, market access, pricing and reimbursement, value insight, multi-channel health communications, scientific services, and strategic product development consultancy. Headquarters are located in Manchester, UK with offices in Europe and the US. Adelphi employs over 700 people worldwide.

Founded in 1986
Bollington, England, GBR
233 employees (19 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
15.3K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
59.9%
Direct
26.4%
Referral
9.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~233

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
13 (6% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
142