Vice President, Corporate Social & Influencer Strategy

District of Columbia, USA (Hybrid)

$119K/yr – $160K/yrDirector/Executive12+ years expFull time

Posted 7 days ago

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Job Summary

Lead and shape senior-level social, influencer, and employee advocacy programs for complex, regulated environments, guiding cross-functional teams and delivering integrated, risk-aware strategies that protect reputation and drive growth.

  • Own executive social programs and governance
  • Drive integrated campaigns across social, earned, paid, and crisis teams

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a senior strategic lead and trusted advisor across key client relationships, providing counsel on social, digital, and influencer strategy in corporate, public affairs, crisis, and regulated environments.
  • Lead integrated, insight-driven strategies across owned social, executive visibility, employee advocacy, creator partnerships, earned amplification, and measurement.
  • Guide clients and internal teams through moments where cultural relevance, reputational risk, legal review, and stakeholder expectations all need to be managed at once.
  • Build and oversee executive social programs, including LinkedIn strategy, voice development, content planning, governance, and measurement.
  • Architect employee advocacy and employee creator programs, including training, guardrails, content systems, approvals, measurement, and risk mitigation.
  • Shape influencer and creator strategies for corporate objectives, overseeing identification, vetting, contracting, content development, disclosure, compliance partnership, performance evaluation, and optimization.
  • Lead social strategy in crisis and issues environments, partnering with crisis, public affairs, earned, legal, and analytics teams to anticipate risk and support clear decision-making.
  • Translate research, listening, data, and cultural intelligence into actionable recommendations, compelling briefs, and persuasive client-ready narratives.
  • Partner across creative, earned, paid, analytics, public affairs, crisis, and legal/compliance teams to deliver integrated programs with a high standard of execution.
  • Act as a senior escalation point, navigating complex client dynamics, aligning multiple stakeholders, and keeping teams moving with confidence.

Requirements

  • 10-12+ years of experience in corporate communications, public affairs, social strategy, digital PR, or integrated communications, with agency or in-house leadership experience.
  • Demonstrated experience providing senior-level counsel to clients or executives in complex, high-stakes, regulated, or similarly nuanced environments.
  • Deep understanding of the social and digital ecosystem, with a strong point of view on how platforms, creators, communities, executives, and employees shape corporate reputation.
  • Proven ability to lead large, integrated programs across multiple workstreams, disciplines, stakeholders, and approval processes.
  • Significant experience with executive social strategy and thought leadership, particularly on LinkedIn.
  • Experience designing and operating employee advocacy or employee creator programs, including governance, legal, compliance, training, and measurement.
  • Strong influencer and creator strategy expertise, with sound judgment about when creator partnerships strengthen a corporate objective and when they introduce unnecessary risk.
  • Working fluency across major social platforms, influencer and employee advocacy platforms, social listening, analytics, reporting, and client-ready presentation tools.
  • Experience collaborating across corporate, public affairs, earned media, creative, paid, analytics, and legal/compliance teams.
  • Strong business acumen, including experience with scopes, budgets, resource planning, and organic growth.
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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