VP, Brand Strategy

New Jersey, USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level8+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive brand strategy leadership for a senior strategist role shaping multi-channel life sciences campaigns.

  • Lead development of brand strategy across channels and teams.
  • Must-have: 8+ years in brand strategy within digital/advertising/consulting with ROI focus.
  • Standout: Leadership of a strategists team and cross-functional collaboration in life sciences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Leverage a deep understanding of brand marketing to collaborate on the successful building of effective, innovative brand strategies across multiple channels
  • Initiate brand strategy discussions and subsequent market research initiatives to identify market needs and create and exploit brand opportunities
  • Have a strong passion for people and the desire to uncover key customer/market insights as the basis for strategies and communication, which change perceptions and influence behavior to create a competitive advantage
  • Have the ability (and desire) to think big across a wide range of strategic opportunities, from launch planning to the evolution of long-standing platforms
  • Collaborate with multidisciplinary team members in the development and presentation of integrated, innovative, strategic marketing solutions
  • Define key performance indicators to support brand strategy and objectives, conduct analysis to determine program ROI, help create and inform metric reports and dashboards, and make recommendations based on learnings
  • Create dynamic and compelling presentations that deliver new thinking, bring audiences along for your ride, and create “yes, and” moments
  • Ability to produce clear and concise written documents (proposals, strategic rationales, point-of-view statements, case studies, discussion guides, etc)
  • Follow trends and innovations to impact integrated communication strategies (eg, media, digital, research, etc)
  • Provide thought leadership/oversight in matters of research design, stimuli development, research reporting, customer/competitor/market audits, and traditional strategic deliverables (eg, brand positioning, annual brand planning)

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree required. Graduate degree preferred in behavioral sciences, business marketing, and/or advertising
  • Must have 8+ years of brand strategy experience, delivering custom marketing solutions within a digital marketing, consulting, and/or advertising agency environment
  • Experience in the pharmaceutical and/or medical/healthcare industry is a plus
  • Oncology experience preferred
  • Ability to travel to clients periodically
  • Demonstrated expertise for uncovering insights and leveraging them to achieve marketing objectives
  • The ability to translate clients’ goals and objectives into actionable and measurable marketing recommendations
  • Knowledge of marketing/advertising mix (interactive, sales support, traditional, broadcast, experiential, events, etc)

Preferred

  • Entrepreneurial “can do” attitude and a relentless passion for collaboration and innovation
  • Demonstrated expertise for uncovering insights and leveraging them to achieve marketing objectives
  • The ability to translate clients’ goals and objectives into actionable and measurable marketing recommendations
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