Accenture

Brand Strategy Director - Song Life, Part of Accenture Song

Accenture$100K — $245K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in brand strategy or related experience in an agency setting
  • 5+ years in agency with strong creative focus, including experience in non-pharmaceutical categories
  • Proven HCP experience
  • Exceptional client-facing presentation and facilitation skills
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders
  • Experience in developing positioning, messaging, and customer journeys
  • Must work within EST/CST schedule

Responsibilities

  • Manage strategic workload for HCP workstreams, ensuring clarity and cohesion in briefs and deliverables
  • Translate high-level brand strategy into actionable creative guidance
  • Contextualize strategic thinking effectively
  • Identify critical business problems that a brand and communications can address
  • Define brand roles and communication channels within business plans with a forward-thinking approach
  • Develop a deep understanding of client business dynamics
  • Serve as a strong strategic voice for clients, presenting and defending recommendations in real time
  • Lead strategic outputs like audience insights and messaging frameworks
  • Propose innovative strategies based on client challenges and market insights
  • Collaborate with teams to ensure alignment of creative and content solutions
  • Foster collaboration among disciplines for impactful brand work

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and long-term disability coverage
  • 401(k) plan and bonus opportunities
  • Generous paid holidays and time off
  • Access to a suite of market-competitive benefits
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:

U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture

Role Location Annual 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

About Accenture

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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