Marketing Director, Change Management Communications
Philadelphia, PA - USA
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Responsible for driving strategic vision and creating a culture of high performance by setting the vision and operating model for their function translating business goals into a prioritized resourced portfolioand enabling expert teams to deliver consistent compliant and measurable value. Confident and capable in bringing together information insights creativity performance data and operational guardrails they shape the strategic frameworks that guide campaigns programs and decision-making. Serves as the guardian of integrated marketing excellence shaping standards anticipating risk connecting dots across workstreams establishing best practices and fostering a collaborative environment where teams feel empowered to do their best work.Job Description
Summary
Responsible for driving strategic vision and creating a culture of high performance by setting the vision and operating model for their function translating business goals into a prioritized resourced portfolioand enabling expert teams to deliver consistent compliant and measurable value. Confident and capable in bringing together information insights creativity performance data and operational guardrails they shape the strategic frameworks that guide campaigns programs and decision-making. Serves as the guardian of integrated marketing excellence shaping standards anticipating risk connecting dots across workstreams establishing best practices and fostering a collaborative environment where teams feel empowered to do their best work.
Job Duties
- GROUP-LEVEL STRATEGY AND PRIORITIZATION: helps to shape the strategic direction of a marketing and communications area by translating priorities into programming; provides thought leadership across program categories product lines or business units ensuring marketing choices reflect business strategy and expectations; builds the annual and quarterly planning frameworks articulates a clear POV on strategic direction and identifies the biggest opportunities and risks for the portfolio; ensures teams and partners understand why certain strategic decisions are being made and creates alignment around the narrative and rationale.
- MARKETING PORTFOLIO AND DECISION-MAKING: designs the strategic blueprint for a portfolio of businesses and programs at a team-level defining how initiatives fit together across audiences channels and/or business needs; contributes to project budgets suggests tools and offers input to staffing levels; ensures teams understand rationale; helps to create workstreams to avoid duplication and encourage shared assets shared insights and unified effort.
- CROSS-DEPARTMENT ALIGNMENT: leads alignment with colleagues and leaders across the department and enterprise to ensure all stakeholders share the same goals timelines and expectations; contributes to setting cross-functional decision frameworks facilitates stakeholder meetings and manages escalations that impact major programs campaigns or initiatives; drives clarity in complex environments by suggesting decision rights and embedding cross-team rhythms that keep programs advancing.
- GOVERNANCE AND RISK MANAGEMENT: follows and at times sets governance standards for a portfolio of work (e.g. brand compliance content risk review legal/privacy requirements accessibility guidelines); anticipates and mitigates risks related to messaging timing market sensitivity or executional quality among others; follows escalation paths for high-visibility programs campaigns ensures crisis readiness and alignment with corporate communications and legal teams.
- STRUCTURE AND CAPABILITY: ensures leadership has the information and line of sight to contribute to and endorse direction; owns risks trade-offs and investment discussions; advocates for necessary resources and protect teams from unnecessary noise and distraction; accelerate progress by eliminating blockers and creating clarity; ensures teams have clear decision rights and efficient cross-functional handoffs; seeks and/or provides necessary training for workgroup staff within their respective teams or if necessary across the department.
- EXPERIENCE LEADERSHIP: defines the experience strategy for priority audiences within a portfolio including messaging pillars experience guidelines and quality standards across touchpoints; ensures consistency in narrative tone and visual identity across all programs; partners with channel leaders and creative leadership to ensure programs reinforce the brands promise and deliver accessible inclusive high-quality experiences to customers employees or external stakeholders.
- PERFORMANCE AND INSIGHTS LEADERSHIP: makes deep contributions to the performance strategy for projects and initiatives defining KPI frameworks measurement plans attribution models and learning agendas; leads team in synthesizing insights from analytics research and market signals to adjust program direction and resource allocation; develops the performance narrative for senior leadership translating results into strategy recommendations.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors Degree in Marketing Communications Business Administration or related field.
- At least 8 years professional experience within a marketing communications department advertising or communications agency or related professional setting and
- At least five years directly managing direct reports and indirectly managing cross-functional marketing and communications teams.
- Deep understanding of the structures practice areas and inner workings of a marketing department and/or advertising agency.
- Experience navigating (with or within) complex matrixed organizational structure(s) including demonstrated experience in change management.
- Confident ability to interact with C-suite and other executives managing their expectations discussing trade-offs to achieve win/wins and take ownership of the marketing and communications counsel and services provided to them.
- Understanding of relevant industry and trade regulations as well as those pertinent to marketing and communications (e.g. truth in advertising intellectual property rights and infringement etc.).
- Direct experience with generative AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT Copilot etc.) for content generation research or workflow automation and experience enforcing policy and modeling best practices in their use.
- Demonstrated ease working in fluid settings managing expectations accepting and giving appropriate feedback and pivoting when necessary.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office (e.g. Word Excel PowerPoint Teams etc.).
Preferred Qualifications
- Masters Degree in Marketing Marketing Analytics Communications Digital Marketing Master of Business Administration (MBA) or related graduate degree.
- Strong aptitude for learning and working within new software applications.
- Track-record of increasing professional ability to build and manage high-achieving teams.
- Experience with enterprise business sector(s) (e.g. health higher education insurance) strongly preferred.
Physical Demands
Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing frequent keyboard use *patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling bending squatting and performing CPR.
Job Description Disclaimer: This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.
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Thomas Jefferson UniversityPrimary Location Address
1101 Market Philadelphia Pennsylvania United States of AmericaNationally ranked Jefferson which is principally located in the greater Philadelphia region Lehigh Valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey is reimagining health care and higher education to create unparalleled value. Jefferson is more than 65000 people strong dedicated to providing the highest-quality compassionate clinical care for patients; making our communities healthier and stronger; preparing tomorrows professional leaders for 21st-century careers; and creating new knowledge through basic/programmatic clinical and applied research. Thomas Jefferson University home of Sidney Kimmel Medical College Jefferson College of Nursing and the Kanbar College of Design Engineering and Commerce dates back to 1824 and today comprises 10 colleges and three schools offering 200 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than 8300 students. Jefferson Health nationally ranked as one of the top 15 not-for-profit health care systems in the country and the largest provider in the Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas serves patients through millions of encounters each year at 32 hospitals campuses and more than 700 outpatient and urgent care locations throughout the region. Jefferson Health Plans is a not-for-profit managed health care organization providing a broad range of health coverage options in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for more than 35 years.
Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age race color religion creed sexual orientation gender gender identity marital status pregnancy national origin ancestry citizenship military status veteran status handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.
Benefits
Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues including medical (including prescription) supplemental insurance dental vision life and AD&D insurance short- and long-term disability flexible spending accounts retirement plans tuition assistance as well as voluntary benefits which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues including those who work less than part-time(including per diemcolleagues adjunct faculty and Jeff Temps) have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.
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