Brand Strategy Director - Song Life, Part of Accenture Song

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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, and 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, serving 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

Requirements

• 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

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Skills

• Strategic thinking
• Client relationship management
• Collaboration and teamwork
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Project management

Benefits

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.

Pay

Annual Salary Range: California $94,400 to $266,300

Schedule

EST/CST schedule

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