Group Director

California, USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead healthcare client engagements and strategic PR programs, owning relationships, growth and team mentorship.

  • Own day-to-day client engagements, ensuring strategy-aligned deliverables and on-time project execution.
  • Must-have: 12+ years in healthcare PR/communications with proven storytelling ability.
  • Standout: Leads new business proposals, budgets and staffing across accounts.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Overseeing client engagements, including building strong relationships with client stakeholders, serving as a thought partner to day-to-day project team members and ensuring timely delivery of projects that track to strategy and exceed client expectations
  • Actively managing the “business of running the business”, including seeking opportunities for organic growth, tracking progress against budget and managing project financials and ensuring client engagements are staffed for success
  • Identifying opportunities to help our clients tackle their most pressing marketing, communications and employee engagement challenges, readily jumping in to roll up your sleeves to bring those solutions to life
  • Creating and/or editing deliverables such as brand strategies, messaging platforms, print and digital marketing collateral and internal communications that execute client objectives
  • Raising the firm’s profile as a thought leader on LinkedIn, our company blog and through networking and events
  • Spearheading new business proposals including working with firm leadership to prepare for pitch meetings, project resourcing and development of scopes of work and project budgets
  • Directly and indirectly managing and mentoring account team members, helping members of our team grow, learn and thrive

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience working for a healthcare-related public relations, brand marketing, communications, or digital agency. Alternatively, a combination of agency and in-house experience in corporate communications or employee relations role at a life sciences company.
  • Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism or science; advanced degree preferred
  • Demonstrated strategic, multi-media storytelling ability as evidenced through writing samples
  • High comfort-level working with time-entry and project management systems, and presentation software

Preferred

    Benefits

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      Waterhouse

      Waterhouse Brands, LLC is a brand reputation agency dedicated to helping life sciences companies create Reputational PullTM among investors, talent and industry partners. Using its time-tested ALIGN MethodologyTM as a tool to articulate competitive advantage, Waterhouse fuses strategy with creative brand activations and communications programs across the full ecosystem of market awareness. Since its inception, Waterhouse has built brands and helped scale culture for some of the fastest growing companies in the industry, proving the power of authentic positioning to engage stakeholders and drive enterprise value. Waterhouse was founded in 2017 by Kimberly Kraemer, a 2025 Ragan Communications Top Women in Communications Honoree.

      Founded in 2017
      Greenbrae, California, USA
      23 employees (5 in marketing)

      Traffic Signals

      Monthly Visitors
      1.8K
      Traffic Source Mix
      Search
      34.2%
      Direct
      34.3%
      Referral
      23.2%
      Social
      6.7%
      Paid
      1.1%

      Headcount Trend

      Current headcount: ~23

      Marketing Team

      Marketing Team Size
      3 (13% of company)