Director, System Marketing

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$183K/yr – $213K/yrDirector/Executive8+ years expFull time

Posted 8 hrs ago

Job Summary

Lead the system and clinical service marketing agenda, guiding cross-functional teams on partnerships, reputation programs, omnichannel growth, content strategy, and performance measurement to drive growth and brand influence.

  • Own integrated marketing campaigns across service lines and external partnerships.
  • Define and track KPIs and OKRs to benchmark performance.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Service Line Marketing: Deeply partner with service lines to build integrated marketing campaigns that deliver their acquisition and awareness goals.
  • Hospital & Network Partnerships: Lead and execute marketing strategy for external hospital affiliations and joint-venture network partnerships to expand regional influence and care access. Lead relationships with critical external partners, develop integrated plans and multiyear roadmaps to deliver partnership objectives.
  • Reputation & System Influence: Lead strategic visibility and reputational initiatives, including specialized marketing campaigns for U.S. News & World Report hospital rankings, regional brand awareness, and thought-leadership platforms.
  • Omnichannel Growth Campaigns: Lead cross-functional teams to build integrated, data-driven marketing campaigns spanning digital advertising, paid social, email/CRM, webinars, direct mail, sponsorships, and high-impact events to drive consumer engagement and appointment conversion.
  • Content & Narrative Development: Oversee the development of compelling marketing content and clinical storytelling that reinforces UCM’s reputation for medical discovery, complex care, and health equity.
  • Dashboards & OKRs: Partner with performance marketing and marketing ops to establish robust KPI/OKR tracking, developing institutional and service-line dashboards that benchmark performance against prior years and fiscal targets.
  • Budget Optimization: Manage entity, community, and system marketing budgets to maximize ROI across paid media, production, and agency spend.
  • Agency & Vendor Management: Lead agency partners and third-party vendors, enforcing performance standards, continuous optimization, and brand fidelity across all deliverables.
  • Marketing Automation & Enablement: Harness enterprise CRM and sales enablement platforms (including Salesforce Marketing Cloud) to map patient journeys, nurture leads, deliver personalized communications, and boost retention.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or Business required. Master’s degree preferred.
  • 8+ years of progressive, results-driven marketing leadership within a complex hospital system, academic medical center, or healthcare enterprise.
  • Demonstrated experience building, coaching, and managing cross-functional teams and external agency partners in matrixed environments .
  • Proven ability to partner with and influence partners, hospital administrators, physician leaders, and C-suite executives, successfully translating clinical strategies into marketing roadmaps.
  • Expertise across both B2B provider referral marketing and direct-to-consumer digital acquisition.
  • Strong relationship builder and communicator with exceptional communication and leadership skills and a track record of influencing senior leaders and managing external partners.
  • Strong proficiency in interpreting data, building business cases with data, utilizing CRM/marketing automation tools (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud), and managing performance via OKRs.
  • Bold, creative, courageous, and innovative mindset who is able to inspire and motivate others; well-versed in operating in a very competitive marketplace.
  • Experience building effective marketing organizations and managing teams across a highly complex healthcare or hospital organization with numerous service lines.
  • Experience partnering tightly with physician leaders and service line executives to translate business strategy into integrated marketing plans.
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The University of Chicago Medicine has been at the forefront of medicine since 1927, when we cared for our first patients. Our mission is to provide superior health care in a compassionate manner, ever mindful of each patient's dignity and individuality. To accomplish our mission, we call upon the skills and expertise of all who work together to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and further the knowledge of those dedicated to caring.As one of the nation’s leading academic medical institutions, UChicago Medicine comprises the Medical Center, Pritzker School of Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division. Its main Hyde Park campus is home to the Center for Care and Discovery, Bernard Mitchell Hospital, Comer Children’s Hospital and the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine. It also has a 108,000-square-foot facility in Orland Park as well as an outpatient clinic in Chicago's South Loop, as well as affiliations and partnerships that create a regional network of doctors in dozens of Chicago-area communities. UChicago Medicine offers a full range of specialty-care services for adults and children through more than 40 institutes and centers including an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center. It has 805 licensed beds, nearly 850 attending physicians, about 2,500 nurses and over 1,100 residents and fellows. Harvey-based Ingalls Health joined UChicago Medicine’s network in 2016.

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Salaries

Posted range

$183K/yr – $213K/yr

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Marketing Team

Median Tenure
5.1 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$2M
Last Raise
$2M
Grant, 9 years ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2016
    Grant • $2M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
840.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$16.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
62%
Direct
31.1%
Referral
5.5%
Social
0.9%
Paid
0.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~7.7K

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Director, System Marketing

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