Head of Industry Strategy, HLS

Our Company

Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobes all about. We give everyonefrom emerging artists to global brandseverything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! Were passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images videos and apps and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.

Were on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization and we know the next big idea could be yours!

The Opportunity

We are looking for a dynamic leader to help drive the strategy thought leadership and positioning to grow our Health & Life sciences segment. As the Industry Strategy Expert you will develop compelling and prescriptive thought leadership and present it to prospects at industry & Adobe conferences/events and 1:1 customer meetings with SVP levels and above. You will partner with a diverse ecosystem of sales product management and solution consulting to bolster our industry value proposition and drive a coordinated go-to-market strategy. As an ambassador for Adobe in the Health & Life sciences industry you will also partner with Adobe marketing to drive awareness of Adobes capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Develop Adobes point-of-view for Health & Life sciences:

Build a vision and competitive positioning for the industry that resonates with Health & Life sciences executives. This will address for example what are the major capabilities and use cases Adobes Experience Cloud enables from customer data & analytics advanced omnichannel personalization cross-channel journey orchestration creative content production and unified measurement. It should also address what does amazing look like for an omnichannel experience & customer journey and what tactics are needed for Healthcare Providers Pharmaceutical & Biotech Companies Medical Device & Diagnostics Companies Health Insurance & Payers Research & Academia and others to maximize the return from their digital will have opportunities to collaborate with digital strategists technologists data scientists and other specialists to craft a powerful point-of-view.

Drive a coordinated strategy to grow the business:

The Adobe Health & Life sciences community extends across sales marketing pre-sales customer success product professional services and our partners. You will monitor the performance of the overall Americas business and drive long-term growth by orchestrating our strategy across functions. Typical activities include: working with sales leaders on go-to-market planning partnering with marketing teams to amplify our industry messaging enabling the field on how to position our capabilities to HLS people influencing product/engineering teams to ensure advanced HLS capabilities/use cases are on our product roadmap and aligning with partners on delivery of industry solutions.

Engage with senior executives as a thought leader:

You will develop and present compelling thought leadership to senior executives in customer meetings CxO roundtables Adobe conferences and industry events (e.g. HMPS). This is a role for someone who enjoys building C-level relationships opening new doors speaking at conferences and advising business leaders on how to achieve success in their omnichannel transformation programs.

What you need to succeed

Your success is measured by driving growth in Adobes Health & Life sciences vertical by setting the vision for digital transformation in the space and by positioning Adobe as a key strategic partner in this process.

Experience in Health & Life sciences either client-side or as a trusted advisor with specific focus in digital marketing omnichannel personalization customer data & analytics and creative production (10 years).

Experience leading successful programs for omnichannel transformation along with an understanding of strategies operational tactics and technologies needed to execute at scale.

Entrepreneurial approach to finding new growth levers for the business.

Experience in the effective use and deployment of data for designing and managing products for measurement collection integration segmentation experience activation and monetization.

Outstanding executive presence and presentation skills with the ability to inspire and engage senior level executives

Highly collaborative with ability to lead through influence in a matrixed environment.

Exceptional written communication including interest in authoring thought-provoking points-of-view and conducting customer and market research.

Outstanding problem solving and analytical skills including talent for conducting research analyzing data developing hypotheses and synthesizing recommendations.

Willingness to travel up to 33% (post-COVID)

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