Grey Matter Marketing (GMM) is looking for a San Francisco Bay Area-based Brand Strategist to develop cohesive, compelling strategic visions for our life sciences clients that guide their overall brand and business plans. They will play a substantive role on brand teams and new business opportunities, while collaborating with executive management. They will be a primary contact with internal teams during the development of strategic/communications-oriented work and gain heavy client exposure.
Responsibilities
- Leverage deep experience in uncovering foundational insights to drive strategy and competitive differentiation
- Develop compelling brand positioning, strategic imperatives, and critical success factors to reach brand objectives
- Prepare and effectively deliver presentations that are persuasive and help clients and prospects realize the strategic opportunities
- Prepare and effectively facilitate workshops as needed to support strategic insight development and client team alignment
- Help lead new business pitch strategic insights and presentation development in coordination with agency teams
- Develop in-depth market, customer and competitive analyses
- Play a key role in the planning and execution of strategic client engagements
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
- 5+ years of healthcare strategic marketing experience or brand planning in an agency or life sciences company
- Gathering, organizing and summarizing information on client business strategy, industry and competitive dynamics, best practice analyses, communications audits and customer insights to identify key implications
- Strong analytic and organization skills with the ability to discern and capture important ideas
- Critical thinker with the ability to look beyond the set task to find new ways to achieve our objectives
- Communicate effectively and persuasively, both verbally and in writing
- A willingness to push your thinking, attack issues from multiple angles and stretch yourself to provide outstanding brand ideas to clients
- An appetite for learning and wrestling with challenging topics across a diverse range of clients/therapeutic areas
- Ability to work collaboratively and independently in a deadline-driven environment, set priorities and manage multiple tasks with input from multiple team members
- Highly organized with a sense of urgency and can-do attitude
- Openness to travel, seeing things in new ways, and exploring new ideas
- You must live in the greater San Francisco Bay area to be considered
Position Type
- This is a contract with the goal of conversion to a full-time position based upon performance
- This is a remote position with some travel to agency meetings and clients
- This position would be ideal for someone looking for a more flexible job structure but wants to be a significant contributor and leader