Strategy Director in Illinois

Simple Mills is a rapidly-growing company on the forefront of the clean food movement, transforming center store grocery aisles with products made from nutritious, purposeful ingredients. Simple Mills is a female-founded business, started by Katlin Smith in 2012 out of her own Kitchen. In the company’s short history, Simple Mills has disrupted the market to become the #1 bestselling natural baking mix, the #1 bestselling natural cracker, and the #1 bestselling natural cookie.

The company’s mission is to advance the holistic health of the planet and its people by positively impacting the way food is made. Simple Mills is distributed in 25,000+ stores nationally including Whole Foods, Target, Walmart, Kroger, Costco and more, and available...

SPCSHP is looking for a Strategy Director based in the Midwest (Chicago, Detroit, or Minn). You like brands and you get excited and inspired to do great work for them. You know a powerful insight when you see one. You know how to use insights to shape work and ensure that it is impactful and human. You can package and present a compelling narrative. You can manage a team of inspiring strategists and strategic thinkers across multiple disciplines. Most importantly, you love this stuff -  stories of insights, innovation, trends, people and culture. You live to make people inspired and curious, to open minds to new possibilities.

Roles + Responsibilities: 

• Maintain a deep understanding of culture, identifying macro and micro shifts in the landscape and helping teams connect these changes to brand and business opportunities
• Develop strategic narratives to inspire audience-led ideas that meet brand needs effectively, in...

The Strategy Director leads strategic initiative development and implementation for our clients in the life sciences, biopharma, and healthcare industries. In this role, this team member is key in strengthening client relationships by leveraging industry expertise to provide guidance and drive impactful strategic solutions. A key focus of this role is ensuring market differentiation, customer relevance, and consistency of voice across all channels of communication. 

The ideal candidate is motivated by the challenge of generating compelling narratives that differentiate our clients' brands, products, and services. In addition, the Strategy Director works with other departments to develop, enable, and advocate positioning and communication structures for client communications. This includes ensuring market differentiation, customer relevance, and a consistent voice across all communication channels through creative campaigns, messaging, content, public relations, sales...

Job Title: Director, Strategy

Team: Strategy

Location: In-Person in Atlanta (GA), Chicago (IL), Newark (NJ), or New York City (NYC) 

Employment Type: Full-time

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Start Date: ASAP

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