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Steve Collins

Senior Marketing Leader
Walnut Creek,CA

Summary

Dynamic, passionate and results-driven marketing leader with over 20 years experience (agency and client-side). Proven ability to drive strategy, development and execution of B2B, B2C and B2B2C focused initiatives to increase brand awareness, customer growth, user acquisition and engagement. Excellent leadership, team-management and communications skills with a history of cultivating strong professional relationships and scaling teams.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

VP, Marketing

RecoveryOne
10.2021 - 03.2024

Functional lead for all B2C and B2B marketing, including member growth and commercial growth.

  • Responsible for strategic member growth marketing initiatives, resulting in 19% increase in Y0Y enrollment performance (2023).
  • Redesigned entire enrollment marketing playbooks for both health plan and self-insured employer groups for optimal operational efficiency and enrollment performance.
  • Collaborated with the commercial team to deliver sales enablement content and B2B awareness and lead generation campaigns.
  • Built and managed high-performing team of 4 marketing professionals, fostering culture of innovation and collaboration to drive exceptional results and exceed growth targets.
  • Spearheading launch of high-value consumer segmentation and targeting to enroll more future high healthcare cost utilization individuals.
  • Led re-brand initiative to modernize/refresh and provide more consistent look and feel across B2B marketing, B2C marketing, and product UX.
  • Launched all-new corporate website and content strategy reflected refreshed brand

VP, Marketing

Sword Health
04.2020 - 05.2021

Responsible for driving brand and member growth for SWORD's virtual physical therapy program through B2B2C and B2C marketing.

  • Recruited in April 2020 to build out growth marketing team from ground up
  • Established brand strategy and brand guidelines
  • Developed comprehensive member growth playbook, campaign library and content machine
  • Augmented B2B2C initiatives with DTC performance marketing to drive incremental growth and revenue
  • Spearheaded development and implementation of processes, tools and resources to scale member growth for zero clients to dozens
  • Responsible for enrollment funnel member experience and optimization - efforts which have lead to 50% increase in conversion
  • Member of SWORD staff leadership team

Senior Director, Marketing

Rally Health
01.2015 - 04.2020

Responsible for driving user, enterprise and brand growth across Rally Health's portfolio of wellness and health navigation products.


  • Built and lead new performance marketing function to accelerate growth, demonstrate industry leadership and greater customer value
  • Owned Rally's social media strategy and content calendar
  • Led strategy, planning and execution for efforts which contributed to over 4M Rally user enrollments in four years
  • Seamlessly managed integration of marketing resources, processes and systems during integration of Real Appeal (weight management program) into Rally product stable and outperformed user growth goal by 18%
  • Spearheaded propensity modeling for user engagement campaigns demonstrating 27% lift in feature utilization
  • Drove development of thought leadership program to increase customer engagement and drive incremental employer campaigns
  • Scaled team with responsibility for one product to supporting five at present
  • Direct report of CMO and member of Marketing Leadership team
  • Managed team of nine employees

Account Director

Y&R Brands Advertising
10.2006 - 01.2015

Primary responsibility for the management of ad agency client relationships and co-ordination of resources needed to service projects, build strategic plans and execution of creative work.


  • Lead efforts for Health Net's first brand campaign yielding 9% increase in ad awareness
  • Managed Medicare focused direct marketing campaign for Health Net garnering 25% increase in sales and 18% lower CPL
  • Oversaw development of small businesses targeted campaign, resulting in 16% increase in online sessions and 7% increase in awareness for LegalZoom
  • Managed a program of creative development and production for over 40 TV spots between 2009 and 2012
  • Led campaign to increase footfall to Jenny Craig centers resulting in 14% lift in traffic
  • Spearheaded successful pitch teams winning three new clients including Public Storage, Abbott and Hyundai Capital

Account Supervisor

Wunderman / Y&R Advertising, U.K.
10.1999 - 09.2006

Managed client relationships, strategy, creative development and execution of campaigns for various clients.


  • Management, planning and development of Xerox Europe's largest and most successful brand campaign
  • Responsible for network co-ordination of 15 European markets' advertising activities
  • Management of $30 million European advertising budget, including brand, product positioning and DR campaigns
  • Personally selected to join Xerox client team for 6 months as Acting Marketing Manager
  • Managed new Star Alliance airline carrier launch communications for both international and US audiences
  • Frequently presented strategy and creative work to senior clients
  • Part of successful pitch team for BAE Systems

Assistant Account Executive

Wunderman
10.1997 - 08.1999

Junior level ad agency account management duties including client management, creative brief development, schedule development and project management/workflow.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration

DeMontfort University
Leicester, U.K.
1994.09 - 1997.06

Timeline

VP, Marketing

RecoveryOne
10.2021 - 03.2024

VP, Marketing

Sword Health
04.2020 - 05.2021

Senior Director, Marketing

Rally Health
01.2015 - 04.2020

Account Director

Y&R Brands Advertising
10.2006 - 01.2015

Account Supervisor

Wunderman / Y&R Advertising, U.K.
10.1999 - 09.2006

Assistant Account Executive

Wunderman
10.1997 - 08.1999

Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration

DeMontfort University
1994.09 - 1997.06
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