Accenture

Brand Strategy Director - Song Life, Part of Accenture Song

Accenture$87K — $213K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of brand strategy or relevant experience in an agency setting
  • 5+ years in a strong creative agency, including non-pharma categories
  • 5+ years of HCP experience
  • Strong client-facing presentation and facilitation skills
  • Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • Experience in developing positioning, messaging, customer journeys, and creative briefs
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Responsibilities

  • Manage day-to-day strategic workload across HCP workstreams, ensuring clarity and cohesion in briefs and deliverables
  • Translate high-level brand strategy into actionable guidance for creative development
  • Frame strategic thinking in its proper context
  • Identify real business problems that brand and communications can address
  • Clarify the roles of brand and communication channels in business plans
  • Deeply understand client business and its operational dynamics
  • Serve as a confident strategic voice with clients, presenting and defending recommendations in real-time
  • Lead development of audience insights and messaging frameworks
  • Propose proactive strategies that help clients achieve their goals through thorough understanding of challenges
  • Collaborate with the team to ensure creative solutions align with larger marketing programs
  • Act as a catalyst for collaboration and idea generation to produce effective work

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Life and long-term disability insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Bonus opportunities
  • Paid holidays
  • Paid time off
Full Job Description
You Are:   You are a seasoned brand strategy director with pharmaceutical experience who can quickly step into a complex HCP business and lead from day one. You combine strategic rigor with practical execution, translating business challenges into clear brand direction that inspires clients and creative teams alike.  Reporting to the SVP, Strategy Director, you'll partner across Strategy, Client Solutions, Medical, Creative, and Engagement to shape omnichannel HCP marketing across personal and non-personal promotion. You'll serve as a trusted strategic advisor, helping clients solve business problems while ensuring every deliverable is grounded in a clear strategic vision.  Key Responsibilities:  The successful candidate will be expected to:  • Manage the day-to-day strategic workload across HCP workstreams (NPP and PP), ensuring briefs — including client project briefs — and deliverables are clear, cohesive, and strategically sound  • Translate high-level brand strategy into actionable guidance for creative development, maintaining alignment from strategy through execution   • Frame thinking in its proper context  • Isolate the real business problems a brand and communications can affect  • Isolate the roles of the brand, communication and communication channels within business plans – thinking for tomorrow and not just today  • Have a deep understanding of the client business and what makes it tick • Serve as a strong, confident strategic voice with clients — able to present, defend, and evolve strategic recommendations in real time • Lead development of key strategic outputs, including audience insights and messaging frameworks • Proactively propose strategies to help clients achieve their goals by studying a client's challenges, thoroughly understanding the category and customers, and proposing business-changing strategies and multichannel solutions  • Collaborate with the full team to ensure that creative, engagement, and content solutions are on strategy and properly integrated within the larger marketing program  • Be a catalyst for better ideas; bring people and disciplines together to create the best, most effective work for the brand and audiences Why Join Us  You'll help shape HCP strategy for one of the industry's most dynamic brands while working alongside leaders in strategy, creativity, technology, and AI. This role offers the opportunity to influence both client business decisions and the future of healthcare marketing. Here’s what you’ll need:   • 8+ years of brand strategy or relatable experience in an agency setting  • 5+ years: - in a strong creative agency, including working on non-pharma categories (e.g., CPG)  - HCP experience  - Strong client-facing presentation and facilitation skills  - Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.   - Experience developing positioning, messaging, customer journeys, and creative briefs.   • Must work EST/CST schedule  • Some travel may be required based on business and client needs    • Bachelor's degree or equivalent  Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 08/10/2026. Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: Role LocationAnnual Salary Range California$94,400 to $266,300 Cleveland$87,400 to $213,000 Colorado$94,400 to $230,000 District of Columbia$100,500 to $245,000 Illinois$87,400 to $230,000 Maine$80,400 to $196,000 Maryland$94,400 to $230,000 Massachusetts$94,400 to $245,000 Minnesota$94,400 to $230,000 New York$87,400 to $266,300 New Jersey$100,500 to $266,300 Virginia$87,400 to $245,000 Washington$100,500 to $245,000

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Accenture plc is a multinational professional services company that provides services in strategy, consulting, digital, technology, and operations. The company has more than 537,000 employees serving clients in more than 120 countries. Accenture operates across five business segments: Communications, Media & Technology; Financial Services; Health & Public Service; Products; and Resources. The company is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, and has offices worldwide.
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