Remote Healthcare Strategic Communications Manager

Unlock Health; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Hybrid and Remote work schedules

Health benefits

Job summary

Unlock Health seeks a Manager, Strategic Communications to own strategic engagements, advise healthcare clients, and guide integrated campaigns from strategy through execution and measurement.

You will lead teams across communications, managed care, creative, media, and analytics, mentoring junior members and strengthening client relationships while aligning with Unlock Health’s standards.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in healthcare communications, marketing, or strategy, preferably within an agency, consulting firm, or other client-service environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor and primary point of contact for key client stakeholders, providing proactive strategic counsel and leading day-to-day account relationships.
• Translate client priorities and complex healthcare challenges into integrated communications strategies across earned, owned, shared, and paid channels.
• Lead client meetings and present strategic recommendations, campaign updates, performance insights, and new opportunities to senior stakeholders.
• Oversee account operations—including scopes, budgets, timelines, staffing, and deliverables—while anticipating risks and resolving challenges.
• Develop and refine audience strategies, narrative frameworks, message platforms, communications plans, executive materials, and campaign assets.
• Lead cross-functional teams across communications, managed care, creative, media, digital, analytics, finance, and revenue cycle to deliver cohesive, high-quality work.
• Delegate assignments, review deliverables, provide actionable feedback, and support the development of junior team members.
• Monitor healthcare trends, regulatory developments, media coverage, and managed care activity to translate emerging insights into timely client recommendations.
• Establish campaign objectives and performance measures, using data and audience insights to evaluate results and optimize strategies.
• Identify opportunities to expand client relationships and contribute to renewals, proposals, and new business efforts.

Skills

Strategic communications

Client advisory

Leadership

Writing & editing

Presentation skills

Cross-functional teamwork

Data-driven recommendations

Excel (intermediate)

Healthcare industry knowledge

Cision/Meltwater

Tools

Cision

Meltwater

Job description

Unlock Health seeks a Manager, Strategic Communications to own strategic engagements, advise healthcare clients, and guide integrated campaigns from strategy through execution and measurement.

You will lead teams across communications, managed care, creative, media, and analytics, mentoring junior members and strengthening client relationships while aligning with Unlock Health’s standards.