Global Communications Strategy Director, Sustainability

This is an extremely rare opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary global team in Accenture Interactive dedicated to making sustainability relevant and actionable for everyone. Our mission is to create positive impact for our clients and the world by bringing human insight to companies’ sustainability challenges, adding perspective and research, and creating strategies, ideas, products, experiences, and campaigns with genuine impact. Our team is made up of big thinkers from companies like Fjord, Droga5, and Karmarama – all working collaboratively to solve big problems.

Working together, we will:

• Have opportunities to use our craft to make a difference in people’s lives and positive planetary impact

• Consistently push ourselves toward groundbreaking strategic, creative, and design thinking.

• Demonstrate how unconventional thinking leads to world-class sustainable solutions

• Engage in ongoing activities that enable us to learn, practice, and evolve our discipline.

Role Description

As Global Communications Strategy Director, Sustainability, you will be responsible for leading the communications strategy discipline through a sustainability lens. You will:

• Have a passion and curiosity about sustainability. Experience in and complete fluency in the topic is awesome but not a mandatory as long as there’s the desire to learn.

• Pioneer insightful methodologies for weaving sustainability into communications strategy practice

• Enhance others’ knowledge and understanding of how to bring sustainability upstream – into briefs, media considerations - and downstream – optimizing through the funnel, where and how work comes to life.

• Collaborate with the client to define needs, business objectives, and brand goals to inform insightful, innovative and sustainable communications strategy.

• Bridge the gap between sustainability, media and creative, overseeing the creation of journeys, engagement frameworks, campaign ecosystems, and communication plans across paid, owned and earned touchpoints with sustainability as a consideration.

• Champion sustainable brand purpose and ensure that it lives across all key touchpoints and communications

• Identify new opportunities for great work beyond the brief / additional opportunities for growth and/or areas to be more sustainable

• Lead client presentations and senior client relationships.

• Drive collaboration with external IAT partners, including media, PR and CRM agencies.

• Partner with the data and analytics teams, to ensure that measurement frameworks, reporting cadences and campaign optimizations are taking place

• Explain, discuss, and justify decisions eloquently. Give effective feedback and direction to other team members.

• Be up for bringing your strategic brain to any facet of any project or problem

Basic Qualifications

These are the minimum requirements for an aspirant to be considered for the position applying to:

• 10+ years of communication strategy in a creative agency setting, media company, brand or adjacent industry experience
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience

  Preferred Qualifications

• You can demonstrate mastery and proven track record of delivering creatively inspiring, business-driving tactical briefs, with examples of exceptional creative output
• You’re a voice of authority within the communications strategy practice and company.
• You are already, or have interest in being, an influential voice on the intersection of marketing, strategy and sustainability.
• You have deep understanding of the media landscape, both offline and online.
• You’re an inclusive leader demonstrating a high degree of cultural and emotional intelligence. that leads to effective collaboration across many different working styles and perspectives.
• You know how to empower others and create a genuine sense of team cohesion to drive the agency’s strategic agenda forward.
• You’re highly respected by the client and creatives for delivering strategic thinking that answers their business problems, and for being a champion of creative excellence in sustainability.
• You are adept at managing multiple projects and clients to a very high degree of quality.
• You have exceptional awareness of culture and influences.
• You believe in the power of creativity and brands.
• You can run a pitch, and you are an inspirational presenter.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit, are curious with a bias towards action.
• You have experience in sustainability efforts, projects or campaigns.

For a decarbonized economy, we need a radical transformation – a transformation of values, behaviors, identities, wants, rules, power, relationships, language, technology, and infrastructure. Come be a part of making that transformation happen.

Candidates will be considered in all US locations, not only those listed on this posting

As required by Colorado law under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only, the range of starting pay for this role is

$159,516 - $288,500, and information on benefits offered is here.

COVID-19 update:

The safety and well-being of our candidates, our people and their families continues to be a top priority. Until travel restrictions change, interviews will continue to be conducted virtually.

Subject to applicable law, please be aware that Accenture requires all employees to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment. Accenture will consider requests for accommodation to this vaccination requirement during the recruiting process.

What We Believe

We have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.

Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

For details, view a copy of the Accenture Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Policy Statement.

Requesting An Accommodation

Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.

If you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at 1 (877) 889-9009, send us an email or speak with your recruiter.

Other Employment Statements

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Additionally, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Company's legal duty to furnish information.