Marketing Consultant V, Commercial Strategy Lead, Paid Media

Marketing Consultant V, Commercial Strategy Lead, Paid Media

The Commercial Strategy Lead partners with commercial and business teams to develop audience strategies that support growth across B2B large group, small group, and second-sale initiatives. This role ensures audience planning is grounded in commercial objectives while remaining aligned with enterprise audience frameworks. The Lead translates business growth goals into clear audience targeting guidance for media and activation teams. Working closely with business owners and the Audience Strategy Lead, this role balances enterprise standards with line-of-business needs. The Lead supports activation teams by providing ongoing audience insights and optimization recommendations. This role also identifies opportunities to refine targeting approaches based on performance trends and market feedback.

This senior individual contributor is primarily responsible for leading and driving the development and execution of integrated marketing communications programs and strategies and leading and conducting complex market data collection and synthesis. This position provides direction to the creative team, manages and drives complex marketing projects, leads the design and implementation of complex marketing strategies, and leads the development and implementation of strategic go-to-market plans.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; and evaluating recommendations made by others.
• Leads the development and implementation of strategic go-to-market plans by managing relationships with channel partners; assessing and validating channel partner needs and performance on an ongoing basis; investigating audience needs using data-driven learnings to evaluate and identify new multi-channel opportunities; and leading channel marketing programs to drive go-to-market strategies.
• Leads the design and implementation of complex marketing strategies by ensuring strategies support membership growth, retention, and product/service promotion initiatives to meet business goals; developing strategic plan deliverables; verifying brand consistency and brand standard compliance through all marketing channels; conducting and leveraging market research to identify new opportunities and/or validate assumptions; analyzing sales and marketing metrics; creating reports and presenting results; tracking progress to overall enterprise objectives; and driving improvement and optimization efforts toward established goals.
• Manages and drives complex marketing projects by developing and updating project plans; identifying and managing cross-functional stakeholder contacts; assembling teams based on project needs and team member strengths; forecasting and adhering to project budget; evaluating and selecting vendors; defining scope of vendor contracts; managing vendor relationships; and presenting project updates.
• Provides direction to creative team by gathering data, research, and customer input and sign-off to develop an understanding of the work; collaborating with communication and marketing teams; developing and writing complete creative briefs that inform and inspire writers, designers, and other creative professionals; reviewing the completed brief with the customer and relevant stakeholders; and presenting the brief.
• Leads and drives the development and execution of integrated marketing communications programs and strategies by integrating business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and line of business; analyzing information from market research teams to understand stakeholder attitudes and needs; translating insights into promotional strategies; working with enterprise teams to align activities; communicating consistent positioning and messages across all media; evaluating effectiveness of plans, programs, and campaigns; and making recommendations to optimize campaigns.
• Leads and conducts complex market data collection and synthesis by interpreting data and insights to turn them into actionable, evidence-based marketing plans; partnering with research and strategy teams to gather marketplace and consumer dynamics to drive marketing strategies; defining market research needs; partnering with analytics teams to drive marketing strategies and track performance; and reporting and optimizing ROI on strategies and tactics.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Core):

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Functional):

• Analytical Skills
• Business Planning
• Digital Marketing
• Emotional Intelligence
• Financial Acumen
• Getting Work Done Through Others
• Marketing
• Negotiation
• Project Management
• Social Media
• Strategic Alignment
• Strategic Program Management
• Vendor Management
• Written Communication

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Marketing, Integrated Marketing Communications, Journalism, Humanities, Business, Social Science, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in marketing, communications, or a directly related field. Additional equivalent work experience in a directly related field may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3) years experience working in a matrixed organization.
• Three (3) years experience in marketing analysis.