Business Director

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$100K/yr – $120K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 12 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and lead a portfolio of senior digital initiatives for healthcare clients, coordinating priorities, budgets, resources, and timelines while driving cross-functional delivery and client partnership.

  • Lead digital programs and roadmaps across multiple teams to deliver aligned outcomes.
  • Ensure governance, risk management, and quality across efforts and relationships.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the senior day-to-day digital lead and trusted advisor for the client.
  • Manage a portfolio of digital initiatives, ensuring alignment across priorities, budgets, resources, timelines, and dependencies.
  • Lead cross-functional teams across account, strategy, creative, UX, technology, development, program management, and analytics.
  • Partner with client stakeholders to understand business objectives, operational challenges, and evolving priorities.
  • Working with the team and clients, you will ensure all work meets healthcare, legal, privacy, regulatory, and brand requirements.
  • Identify risks and develop mitigation plans to keep programs on track.
  • Drive stakeholder alignment and decision-making across client, agency, and partner teams.
  • Oversee digital roadmaps and program reporting, providing visibility into progress, risks, and outcomes.
  • Maintain expertise in digital platforms, website ecosystems, customer experience, content operations, and emerging technologies.
  • Mentor and develop team members while fostering collaboration, accountability, and excellence.

Requirements

  • Experience leading complex digital programs, platforms, websites, or integrated marketing initiatives.
  • Familiarity with AI search and generative engine optimization (GEO): how LLMs discover, interpret, and surface brand content, and what that means for site structure, structured data, and content strategy.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams in a matrixed environment.
  • Strong understanding of digital delivery, governance, risk management, and operational planning.
  • Ability to influence and build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups, including senior client leadership.
  • Experience partnering with technology, product, UX, analytics, and creative teams to deliver integrated solutions.
  • Strong communication, presentation, and storytelling skills.
  • Business acumen with the ability to connect digital initiatives to organizational goals.
  • Attention to detail and commitment to quality, accuracy, and compliance.
  • Demonstrated success building long-term client relationships and serving as a trusted advisor.

Preferred

  • Healthcare, insurance, financial services, pharmaceutical, or other regulated industry experience.
  • Large enterprise website and CMS experience (Sitecore preferred).
  • Experience leading cross-agency and cross-functional teams.
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Business Director

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