Communications Specialist

Set your sights on a role making a real difference in the healthcare system. We’re looking for a self-motivated Communications Specialist professional to join our team. We have a relentless focus on driving results for our customers and enabling them to invest moreintopatient care; in turn, this allows us to continue to grow our company and your career.

The Communications Specialist will be responsible for creating executive level presentation materials for customers and prospects meetings, board presentations, and investor meetings and presentations. This person will receive direction from the marketing leader and other executives to prepare PowerPoint presentations, to create necessary slides with illustrations to tell complex stories in a simpler way and in line with brand and message guidelines. In this role, the successful candidate will work with marketing, sales, productandothers in the executive group and deliver PowerPoint presentations under deadline. The role reports to the SVP Marketing and will work as a peer to other Marketing Communications team members.

The successful candidate must have demonstrated prior success in working with executives to design and produce PowerPoint presentations in support of prospect-client presentations,boardof director presentations, and investor presentations.

Your day to day role will include:

• Meeting with executives about upcoming events 
• Designing specific story sections, where turning script into series of ppt slides 
• Review, modification sessions of draft documents with sponsor executives 
• Input sessions with marketing team, peers on Brand and Solution messaging 
• Updating presentation inventory to be current for internal customers

You Have:

• Bachelors’ Degree is required, concentration in marketing or communications preferred 
• 2-3 years’ experience working with executive leadership in developing high-level presentations 
• 5+ years working in a professional environment 
• Expert level knowledge of PowerPoint, Design software packages; experience in following brand guidelines 
• Excellent listening, interpretation skills to understand complex stories, and translate into simpler message, imagery/illustrations in ppt slides 
• Ability to work with deadlines, requirements and schedule changes occurring outside of your control 
• Organizational sensitivity, trust, as at times the content will be highly confidential 
• Ability to be in Chicago office Monday-Friday

It would be great if you also have:

• Prior experience managing presentation development in an agency environment 
• Experience with marketing communications including positioning, messaging, testing 
• Prior healthcare product/service experience

We offer:

R1 is changing healthcare by infusing operational discipline and proprietary technology in hospital financial processes. We are an industry leader; we are the only independent organization with a comprehensive service and technology offering for hospital revenue cycle management, and we have achieved leading outcomes for our customers.

• A strong financial performing, growing organization that will keep you on your toes with new ideas, changes and opportunities to learn and grow in abundance.
• A culture of excellence, driving customer success so they can focus on improving patient care and on giving back to the community.
• A Total Rewards package which may include such things as: competitive compensation package, the ability to choose from a comprehensive benefit program mostly funded by R1 that includes medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, life and disability insurance, along withwork lifebalance programs including paid time off for personal time, illness and volunteering, and we offer a retirement savings plan and continuing training and development and so much more!