Communications Strategy Director

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$150K/yr – $200K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own and shape the communications strategy across major accounts, guiding campaign architecture, brand behavior changes, and go-to-market programs while mentoring teams and influencing creative work.

  • Define big jobs to be done, map journeys, and build frameworks to maximize idea impact.
  • Partner with creatives from the earliest stages to imprint the work with strategic voice.
  • Mentor junior strategists and help grow the Comms Strategy discipline across the agency.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead communications strategy across major accounts and help shape everything from campaign architecture to tactical brief writing.
  • Defining the behavior a brand needs to change.
  • Helping a creative team make an idea bigger.
  • Helping a client find the confidence to buy brave work.
  • Most days you’ll be doing all three.
  • Lead communications strategy across key accounts.
  • Define big jobs to be done, identify opportunities, map journeys, build communications frameworks, and create go-to-market programs that maximize the impact of creative ideas.
  • Partner with creatives from the earliest stages of development. Your fingerprints should be visible in the 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.

Requirements

  • You think in people, not channels.
  • You can zoom in and zoom out.
  • You care about the work.
  • You know how to make brave ideas feel safe.
  • You make people around you better. You mentor. You teach. You collaborate. You share credit. You leave rooms smarter than you found them.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Health & Wellness benefits
  • Leadership Benefits
  • Paid Time Off
  • 401K Retirement Savings Plan
  • Paid Parental Leave
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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)
140