Institutional Marketing Strategy Director

Omaha, NE (Hybrid)

$168K/yr – $205K/yrDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 5 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and evolve the IRSG institutional marketing strategy across Pension Risk Transfer, Defined Contribution Lifetime Income, Stable Value, and emerging institutional businesses; lead market intelligence, competitive insights, and thought leadership to inform positioning, messaging, and go-to-market plans; partner with strategy, analytics, product, and distribution to translate insights into actionable recommendations and drive measurable growth.

  • Own audience strategies and content roadmaps aligned to business priorities
  • Influence senior leadership across a matrix organization to execute strategic marketing initiatives
  • Identify market shifts and steer adjustments in positioning and messaging

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Lead and Evolve Institutional Marketing Strategy
  • Own, activate and evolve the established IRSG marketing strategy, ensuring it remains aligned with business priorities, market opportunities, customer needs, and the maturity of each business.
  • Partner with senior business and functional leaders to identify the markets, audiences, opportunities, and priorities where marketing can have the greatest impact.
  • Translate business strategies and established marketing priorities into actionable audience strategies, positioning, messaging, content, and go-to-market recommendations.
  • Evolve strategic direction along with business goals and strategies for the Institutional content roadmap, ensuring priority themes, audiences, and timing are informed by business objectives, market and customer insights, and go-to-market needs, while partnering with the broader marketing team on development and execution.
  • Develop business-specific marketing approaches that recognize the distinct needs and market positions of Pension Risk Transfer (PRT), Defined Contribution Lifetime Income (DCLI), Stable Value, and emerging institutional businesses while maintaining alignment with the established IRSG narrative and strategy.
  • Monitor market, business, and competitive developments and recommend strategic adjustments as priorities and opportunities evolve.
  • Lead ongoing marketing planning and prioritization, establishing clear trade-offs and aligning marketing resources, investments, and activity to the highest-value business priorities and measurable growth objectives.
  • Drive Market Intelligence and Competitive Insights
  • Serve as a strategic consumer of market, customer, and competitive intelligence, bringing relevant insights into IRSG marketing and business discussions.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in strategic marketing, financial services marketing, institutional marketing, business strategy, consulting, product marketing, market intelligence, or a related discipline.
  • Demonstrated experience developing marketing strategies that are directly connected to business growth and strategic priorities.
  • Strong understanding of institutional financial services, retirement markets, insurance, investments, asset management, or related B2B financial markets.
  • Experience translating market, customer, competitive, and business intelligence into strategic recommendations.
  • Proven ability to influence senior leaders and build alignment across complex, matrixed organizations.
  • Experience developing positioning, segmentation, value propositions, messaging, go-to-market strategies, or related strategic marketing frameworks.
  • Exceptional communication, presentation, and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex subjects clear and compelling.
  • Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with the ability to move from insight to recommendation to action.
  • Demonstrated ability to operate strategically while working effectively with teams responsible for execution.
  • Experience in Pension Risk Transfer, Defined Contribution, retirement income, Stable Value, asset management, insurance, or adjacent institutional markets.

Preferred

  • MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Benefits

  • - Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
  • - Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
  • - Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
  • - Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation
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Pacific Life

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Pacific Life provides a variety of products and services designed to help individuals and businesses in the retail, institutional, workforce benefits, and reinsurance markets achieve financial security. Whether your goal is to protect loved ones or grow your assets for retirement, Pacific Life offers innovative life insurance and annuity solutions, as well as mutual funds, that provide value and financial security for current and future generations. Supporting our policyholders for nearly 160 years, Pacific Life is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Newport Beach, California. For additional company information, including current financial strength ratings, visit www.PacificLife.com. Please review our social media guidelines: paclife.co/social

Newport Beach, California, USA
4.6K employees (208 in marketing)
82% recommend to a friend
87% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$168K/yr – $205K/yr

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
138 (3% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
7.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Funding

Last Raise
$750M
Debt Financing, 6 months ago

Funding History

  • Sep 2025
    Debt Financing • $750M
  • Jun 2025
    Debt Financing • $688.6M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
348.5K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$815
Traffic Source Mix
Search
24.9%
Direct
70.6%
Referral
3.7%
Social
0.1%
Paid
0.6%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~4.6K

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