Senior Director and Content Editor

Senior Director and Content Editor-Sg2

locations

Chicago, IL 60607

Virtual Office

time type

Full time

job requisition id

25086R

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance now and in the future.

Sg2, a Vizient company, revolutionized the understanding of future health care demand with the introduction of the Impact of Change forecast in 2001. Today, Sg2 is the industry’s premier health care strategy advisory firm, helping organizations solve for the challenge of achieving smart growth by leveraging our unique combination of insights, expertise, and analytics. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, with an additional office in Denver and virtual team members across the United States, Sg2 serves health care providers across the spectrum, including integrated delivery networks, academic medical centers, independent community hospitals and life sciences companies. Learn more about Sg2 at www.sg2.com.

Summary

In this role, you will collaborate with the firm’s deep bench of subject matter experts to elevate diverse formats of thought leadership executive briefings, white papers, presentations, data snapshots. Your contributions will ensure clear, compelling, differentiated insights to help health care executives take on the industry’s toughest challenges. You will crystallize authors’ perspectives while ensuring consistency with the company’s point of view, business priorities and editorial voice. You will also manage contract editors and writers.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with colleagues to produce powerful, reader-friendly editorial content.
• Use strong editorial judgment to elevate initial drafts and tactfully engage project partners through iterations required for the highest quality final product.
• Streamline complex storylines, frameworks and data from the firm’s market-leading analytics to spotlight the most unique elements of the firm’s thought leadership.
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects for assigned business areas within appropriate timeframes.
• Imagine and propose project byproducts that can extend the utility of editorial collateral.
• Coordinate with designers, copy editors and member communications professionals to ensure high-quality final deliverables and successful distribution.
• Work closely with team leaders and peer writers to improve processes for thought leadership development.
• Help develop QA processes for content.
• Manage contract editors and writers.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred. Advanced degree in journalism, communications or English desired.
• 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience as a professional journalist required.
• Demonstrated fluency on the trends and structure of US health care required.
• Experience in thought leadership at a professional services firm or consultancy preferred.
• Experience in the communications department of a health care organization desired.
• Experience managing teams desired.
• Experience managing freelance writers and/or editors a plus.
• Excellent project-management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects.
• Possess excellent communication skills.
• Receptivity to editing and ability to act on feedback.
• Ability to work independently and to deal with ambiguity; willingness to proactively seek guidance when appropriate.
• Ability to show an existing portfolio of short- and long-form editorial projects.

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Estimated Hiring Range:

$135,200.00 – $201,200.00

This position is also incentive eligible.