Strategic Visionary, VP — Hybrid & Impact-Driven

unlockhealth; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Unlock Health is seeking a VP of Strategy to define and elevate strategic excellence for a portfolio of healthcare-focused clients. You will guide teams to uncover human truths behind business challenges, shape rigorous, differentiating narratives, and lead high-impact workshops with senior stakeholders.

This hybrid role operates from our Chicago or Nashville offices, with in-office presence and remote flexibility.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of experience in strategy, consulting, or healthcare planning.
• Agency experience, with a strong understanding of how to operate and lead in a fast-paced, client-driven environment.
• Proven ability to shape strategic thinking at the highest level-bringing clarity to ambiguity and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Executive presence and strong communication skills, with the ability to build trust quickly.
• Exceptional storytelling and narrative development skills, with the ability to shape compelling strategic stories that inspire teams, clients, and creative work.
• Expertise leading high-impact workshops and facilitating strategic conversations across a range of audiences and organizational levels.
• Strong cross-functional relationship-building skills, with the ability to create trust and alignment across strategy, creative, media, analytics, client experience, and leadership teams.
• A demonstrated ability to mentor, develop, and elevate strategic talent.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive understanding of high-value client business problems—and how to solve them through insight-driven, effective, creative solutions
• Identify and define the human problem behind the business problem, translating audience insight into strategic opportunity and creative direction
• Lead strategy across multiple clients or a portfolio of accounts, setting direction and ensuring consistency and quality
• Serve as the primary strategic advisor to senior client stakeholders, building credibility through both expertise and perspective
• Build strong partnerships with creative teams to bring strategy to life-collaborating closely throughout the process to unlock bold, differentiated, and effective work
• Lead high-impact workshops, working sessions, and presentations across all levels of client organizations, aligning teams and driving decisions forward
• Mentor and develop strategists, senior strategists, and directors-strengthening talent and elevating overall capability
• Set and uphold a high bar for strategic output-driving quality, consistency, innovation, and measurable results
• Integrate and inspire across disciplines, with fluency in media, analytics, and creative to ensure connected, effective solutions
• Participate in pitches and new business efforts, shaping the strategic narrative and approach
• Evolve how we work by shaping methodologies, processes, and strategic approaches
• Foster a culture of curiosity, creativity, discipline, and generosity-raising the level of thinking across the organization
• Push teams and clients toward more ambitious thinking-using emotional intelligence to challenge, align, and move work forward
• Elevate strategic thinking across the organization, helping others build stronger problem-solving skills and sharper perspectives

Job description

Unlock Health is seeking a VP of Strategy to define and elevate strategic excellence for a portfolio of healthcare-focused clients. You will guide teams to uncover human truths behind business challenges, shape rigorous, differentiating narratives, and lead high-impact workshops with senior stakeholders.

This hybrid role operates from our Chicago or Nashville offices, with in-office presence and remote flexibility.