Brand Strategy Director - Song Life, Part of Accenture Song

Accenture Song Life—A Partner for Growth 

The Agency of Record model we all grew up with was built for stability—long planning cycles, rigid campaigns, and success measured in outputs. Today demands something more. With evolving pipelines, diverse patient populations, and accelerated launches, the challenge is not just communication—it’s staying continually relevant. 

At Accenture Song Life, we reinvented the AOR to be a true growth engine for biopharma—anchored in one objective: helping you fuel growth by building continual relevance. 

We do this by being Smarter, Faster, Better 

Smarter—intelligence-led, powered by AI, data, and life sciences expertise, so your brand is always one step ahead. 

Faster—an agile, adaptive model that scales global blockbusters and targets rare disease communities with equal precision, moving at the speed of science and patient need. 

Better—world-class creativity combined with Accenture’s technology and consulting rigor, shifting from campaigns to outcomes—like launch uptake, adherence, and market share. 

The reinvented AOR is not a supplier—it’s a growth partner. Accenture SongLife brings creativity, technology, and strategy together to serve as your growth engine—continually relevant, always accountable, and built to deliver impact for patients, providers, and your business.” 

 

You Are:  

You are aseasonedbrandstrategy directorwithpharmaceuticalexperiencewho can quickly step into a complex HCP business and leadfrom day one. You combine strategic rigor with practical execution, translating business challenges intoclearbrand direction that inspires clients and creative teams alike.

Reporting to the SVP, Strategy Director,you'llpartner across Strategy, Client Solutions, Medical, Creative, and Engagement to shape omnichannel HCP marketing across personal and non-personal promotion.You'llserve 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,maintainingalignment from strategy through execution

• Frame thinking in its proper context

• Isolate thereal businessproblems a brand and communications can affect

• Isolate the roles of the brand,communicationand 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'llhelp 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 10/06/2026.

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

Colorado $94,400 to $230,000

Connecticut $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

Ohio $87,400 to $213,000

Virginia $87,400 to $245,000

Washington $100,500 to $245,000

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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