SVP, Digital and Social Strategy

New York City, NY (Remote)

$200K/yr – $230K/yrSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own enterprise digital and social momentum for healthcare clients by turning executive objectives into cohesive, regulated, omnichannel programs that move growth, engagement, and ROI at the enterprise level.

  • Growth & Transformation: Translate business goals into scalable digital ecosystems and engagement models across channels.
  • Executive Insight & Activation: Turn analytics into recommendations that shape investments and strategic bets with C-suite buy-in.
  • Cross-Functional Leadership: Align strategy, creative, paid media, analytics, and account teams to deliver high-impact programs.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the executive digital and social lead across a portfolio of high-profile healthcare and pharmaceutical clients, setting enterprise-level strategy and driving transformational engagement models.
  • Translate complex business objectives into integrated, omnichannel digital ecosystems that fuel brand growth, deepen stakeholder engagement, and deliver measurable impact.
  • Provide executive-level strategic counsel informed by market intelligence, audience analytics, competitive insights, and performance data to guide investment and decision-making.
  • Identify whitespace opportunities and drive organic growth through expanded digital capabilities, innovation pilots, emerging technologies, and scaled omnichannel programming.
  • Lead digital strategy for new business and partner with account leadership to scope and commercialize incremental initiatives that expand revenue and client partnerships.
  • Oversee cross-functional collaboration across strategy, creative, paid media, analytics, and account teams to deliver cohesive, high-impact digital programs.
  • Direct integrated content strategies, editorial roadmaps, and paid social programs to ensure alignment with brand voice, regulatory standards, audience needs, and ROI objectives.
  • Proactively monitor digital, platform, cultural, and healthcare industry trends to keep clients and internal teams ahead of innovation and regulatory shifts.
  • Translate complex analytics and engagement data into executive-ready insights and actionable recommendations that drive continuous optimization and business impact.
  • Mentor and develop team members while advancing Digital & Social Strategy frameworks, operational excellence, cross-agency integration, and innovation adoption.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of experience (including healthcare/pharma experience) as a senior leader in a similar practice, group, or function
  • Knowledge of and experience with the rules and regulations that govern pharma marketing
  • Strong ability to deliver persuasive, evidence-based counsel that wins over C-suite executives who have limited time
  • Comfort working in cross-functional teams and interacting with different people on a daily basis (including clients)
  • Experience developing digital/social content and assets, with knowledge of individual social platforms and their requirements (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X)
  • Experience with social platform promotion and metrics tools (Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, Facebook Ads Manager, LinkedIn analytics, LinkedIn Campaign Manager, X Insights, X Ads, etc.)

Nice to Have

  • Experience in website development process and/or project management a plus
  • Experience implementing and managing paid social media campaigns a plus
  • Experience with generative AI tools is a plus but not a requirement.

Benefits

  • Health benefits to include Medical, Dental and Vision
  • Company match 401k
  • flexible paid time off (PTO) and sick time
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Syneos Health Communications

Syneos Health Communications* is the only healthcare communications network that is part of a company on the frontlines of healthcare, with a clear view into the everyday complexities of life and health. As part of Syneos Health®, our agencies – consisting of leading brands and experts in advertising, branding, public relations, managed markets and medical communications -- are engaged in every point of influence in health, providing real-world insight into markets and audiences in ways that no other partner could. We work in scalable, collaborative teams that partner across disciplines and geographies to deliver integrated communications strategies that accelerate brand performance. Our agency teams have received more than 1,000 awards for work that disrupts markets and drives behavior change. We create ideas that will work in the real world because they were built there.Find out more at syneoshealthcommunications.com. *As of January 2018, inVentiv Health Communications is now Syneos Health Communications.

Founded in 2017
Morrisville, North Carolina, USA
870 employees (306 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.8K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.4%
Direct
40.5%
Referral
7.8%
Social
12.4%
Paid
1.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~870

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
204 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
18 years
Median Tenure
3.7 years