Vice President, Integrated Comms Strategy (Growth)

In the journey of life, your career should make a difference. At Inizio Evoke, we come together—to do the best work, in the best possible place. We're all in. Because it's everyone's role to make health more human™. About Us: Inizio Evoke Comms is a global, award-winning health communications agency partnering with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medtech, consumer, and non-profit clients to deliver insights-driven public relations, policy, and communications programs that advance health and wellbeing worldwide. About the Role: As VP, Integrated Comms Strategy, you will support new business growth and drive strategic initiatives across key client organic opportunities. You will be focused on shaping work at the front end of engagements. You will focus on defining the problem, developing the brief, facilitating workshops, and partnering with creative, specialty, and account teams. The goal is to unlock earned-first ideas that can grow into larger programs. You will play a central role in both new business and organic growth, helping teams and clients get to sharper, more creative thinking, faster. You will be tracking culture, media trends and the evolving healthcare landscape—and translating those shifts into relevant, forward-looking strategy. This includes staying current on emerging technologies, including AI, and applying them to strengthen insight development, ideation, and strategic output. This is a remote role reporting the EVP Growth & Innovation. What You'll Do: Support New Business & Organic Growth Lead strategy development for pitches and proposals, from opportunity framing through final narrative Partner with account leads to identify and shape organic growth opportunities within existing clients Define positioning, messaging and strategic approach for new opportunities Build compelling storylines that differentiate our thinking and strengthen win potential Lead Early-Stage Strategy Development Develop briefs that define the problem, audience, insight, and opportunity Facilitate client and internal workshops to agree on strategy and unlock new thinking Summarize inputs into clear, actionable strategic direction for communications Bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or undefined client challenges Drive Earned-First Ideation Partner with creative, earned media, social/influencer and integrated teams to produce ideas grounded in insight Ensure ideas are culturally relevant, executable, and aligned to communications goals Push teams to think beyond expected approaches and unlock more distinctive, earned-led concepts Turn Insight into Action Analyze research, data, and market dynamics to identify meaningful insights Translate clinical, cultural, and competitive inputs into clear strategic actions Identify whitespace and opportunities for differentiation Collaborate Across Teams Work with account, creative, digital, social, influencer, and analytics teams Contribute to creative briefs and ensure strategy is carried into execution Be the connector across departments to ensure understanding and momentum Contribute to Strategic Excellence Help enhance how strategy shows up across new business and early-stage work Share frameworks, tools, and ways of working that improve speed and quality Apply AI and latest tools to enhance insight generation, workshop development and ideation What You'll Bring 8+ years of experience in communications strategy Experience in healthcare, biotech, or pharmaceutical communications required Experience with patient, caregiver, and HCP audiences Demonstrated experience supporting or leading new business and pitch strategy Experience developing creative briefs and facilitating workshops with clients and internal teams Storytelling and presentation skills Experience working across integrated communications (earned, social, digital, paid) Knowledge to connect cultural trends, media shifts, and emerging technologies (including AI) to strategy Collaborative mindset and ability to work across departments Inizio Evoke Comms provides an exciting and flexible work environment, great compensation packages and outstanding company paid benefits including medical, dental, 401(k), tuition reimbursement and flexible time off. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. The base salary range represents the low and high end of the salary range for this position. This range may differ based on your experience and skill set, geographic location, and cost of living considerations. We consider compensation more than just a base salary – that’s why we also offer an exceptional range of flexible benefits, personal support and tailored learning and development opportunities all designed to help you realize your full potential both in life and at work. Compensation $130,000 — $175,000 USD Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.