Manager, Communications, Greater Silicon Valley Division

Los Altos, CA (Hybrid)

$129K/yr – $194K/yrManager8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 hrs ago

Job Summary

Own and lead enterprise-wide communications programs and integrated campaigns, partnering across marketing, brand, and leadership to promote Sutter Health's growth, reputation, and patient experience through multi-channel storytelling and strategic counsel.

  • Oversees development of campaigns and messaging across platforms
  • Partners with market leaders and external affairs to manage issues and media

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • In coordination with the communications leadership team and marketing colleagues, oversees the creation of innovative communication plans, strategies, and messaging that engage Sutter Health (SH) stakeholder audiences in novel and compelling ways.
  • Applies a proactive research-based approach to proposing, developing, and implementing creative campaigns that inspire, influence, and inform.
  • Manages the design of creative and integrated campaigns, activities and events that utilize a variety of platforms, channels, assets, and vehicles, and partnering with multimedia, creative services, digital, social, brand and other teams on implementation.
  • Promotes the SH brand and service lines through engaging content, photos, inspirational videos, and on-point messaging.
  • Provides analytical support and guidance to multifunctional teams across assigned focus area and business initiatives to drive results that highlight SH’s competitive advantages, while enhancing SH’s brand reputation.
  • May supervise communications staff, directly or indirectly, and directs contract communication professionals, to meet project deadlines on time and within budget.
  • Evaluates communications plans and collateral periodically to ensure content effectiveness and distribution methods efficiencies.
  • Oversees and manages various functional teams and requests on select integrated marketing and communications projects, campaigns and programs for enterprise, market, ambulatory, acute and freestanding entities.
  • Defines and communicates project objectives that are clear, useful, and attainable using a variety of best practices and standard processes to ensure operational efficiency and scalability.
  • Procures the necessary requirements, such as workforce, project information and deliverables, various agreements, union considerations, material, or technology essential to successfully accomplish project objectives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's: Communications, English, Journalism, Public Relations (PR), or related field
  • Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma.
  • Typical Experience 8 years recent relevant experience
  • Accreditation in Public Relations (APR) from PRSA

Benefits

  • Benefits Yes
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Sutter Health

3.9 Glassdoor

Sutter Health is a not-for-profit, people-centered healthcare system providing comprehensive care throughout California. Sutter Health is committed to innovative, high-quality patient care and community partnerships, and innovative, high-quality patient care. Today, Sutter Health is pursuing a bold new plan to reach more people and make excellent healthcare more connected and accessible. The health system’s 57,000+ staff and clinicians and 12,000+ affiliated physicians currently serve more than 3 million patients with a focus on expanding opportunities to serve patients, people and communities better. Sutter Health provides exceptional, affordable care through its hospitals, medical groups, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care clinics, telehealth, home health and hospice services. Dedicated to transforming healthcare, at Sutter Health, getting better never stops. Learn more about how Sutter Health is transforming healthcare at sutterhealth.org and vitals.sutterhealth.org.

Founded in 2007
Sacramento, California, USA
25K employees (269 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend
84% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$129K/yr – $194K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

Communications median pay in the United States

$93K/yr

Most pay falls between $70K and $136K. Based on 6,210 salaries.

See all Sutter Health salaries

Funding

Total Funding
$27.2M
Last Raise
$23M
Grant, 10 months ago

Funding History

  • May 2025
    Grant • $23M
  • Nov 2016
    Grant • $1.2M
  • Oct 2013
    Grant • $2M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
6M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$263.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
31.2%
Direct
62%
Referral
5.3%
Social
0.6%
Paid
0.8%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~24.8K
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Manager, Communications, Greater Silicon Valley Division

Sutter Health · Los Altos, CA · Hybrid